Marcia Gay Harden

Acting · 2.7 popularity

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Movies

104

Born: August 14, 1959
From: La Jolla, California, USA
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Biography

Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an American film and stage actress. She is the recipient of many accolades including an Academy Award and a Tony Award, in addition to nominations for a Critics' Choice Movie Award and three Primetime Emmy Awards. She began her acting career appearing in television programs throughout the 1980s. In 1986, she appeared in her first film role, with her breakthrough coming in the 1990 Coen brothers-directed Miller's Crossing. Her next notable film credits include The First Wives Club (1996), Flubber (1997), and Space Cowboys (2000). She received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Lee Krasner in Pollock (2000). She had a supporting role in Mona Lisa Smile (2003). She received a second Academy Award nomination for her performance as Celeste Boyle in the drama film Mystic River (2003). She appeared in several 2007 films, including Sean Penn's Into the Wild and Frank Darabont's The Mist, based on the novella by Stephen King. Also in 2007, she shared top billing with Kevin Bacon in Rails & Ties, the directorial debut of Alison Eastwood. Harden played a woman who has a mastectomy in Home (2008). (Her character in Rails & Ties also had a mastectomy.) One scene required her to bare her breasts, with the missing breast removed using computer-generated imagery. In Home, her co-stars include her daughter, Eulala Scheel. In 2009, she had quite a busy year. She appeared as a regular on the FX series Damages as a shrewd corporate attorney opposite Glenn Close and William Hurt. She co-starred in the films Whip It, and The Maiden Heist. She returned to Broadway in Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage, co-starring with James Gandolfini, Hope Davis and Jeff Daniels. All three actors were nominated for a Tony Award; Harden won Best Actress in a Play. She received her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her role as FBI Special Agent Dana Lewis in the crime drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and earned a second Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her performance as Janina Krzyżanowska in the television film The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009). She reunited with her former Broadway co-star Jeff Daniels as a new cast member on HBO's series The Newsroom in 2013. In 2015, she had a starring role in the medical drama Code Black. Her other notable television credits include ABC's How to Get Away with Murder and the Apple TV+ series The Morning Show. She played Christian Grey's mother, Grace Trevelyan Grey, in the Fifty Shades film series from 2015 to 2018. She stars in the 2022 CBS drama So Help Me Todd.

Works

104 films

Fifty Shades of Grey

20155.9

Fifty Shades Freed

20186.7

The Mist

20077.0

Meet Joe Black

19987.4

Mystic River

20037.7

Into the Wild

20077.8

Fifty Shades Darker

20176.5

Flubber

19975.7

Space Cowboys

20006.4

Detachment

20117.6

Spy Hard

19965.4

Whip It

20096.7

Mona Lisa Smile

20036.9

The Dreadful

20266.1

Miller's Crossing

19907.4

Bad News Bears

20055.8

The First Wives Club

19966.7

Confess, Fletch

20226.2

Knox Goes Away

20247.0

Parkland

20136.2

Moxie

20217.2

Get a Job

20165.3

Magic in the Moonlight

20146.5

You're Not You

20147.4

Point Blank

20196.0

The Invisible

20076.4

Desperate Measures

19986.0

Welcome to Mooseport

20045.1

American Dreamz

20065.1

The Maiden Heist

20095.7

The Dead Girl

20066.0

P.S.

20045.6

The Hoax

20066.3

Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant

20154.6

Gigi & Nate

20227.6

Grandma

20156.4

Pollock

20006.7

Innocent

20115.7

Far Harbor

19964.2

Used People

19925.8

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

20097.3

Unity

20157.5

Elsa & Fred

20145.9

Christmas Cottage

20086.3

Renner

20255.2

Rails & Ties

20076.4

The Spitfire Grill

19966.5

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

20136.1

Curtain Call

19985.1

American Gun

20055.7

Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast

20052.0

Sex and Lies in Sin City

20093.4

This Ordinary Thing

2025

Love You to Death

20197.6

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

20125.5

Felicity: An American Girl Adventure

20056.6

After Words

20155.3

Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy

20116.1

Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone

202010.0

The Daytrippers

19976.6

Daughter of the Bride

20235.8

She's Too Young

20045.8

Mystic River: From Page to Screen

200310.0

Mystic River: Beneath the Surface

20049.5

Safe Passage

19945.9

From Where I Sit

20009.0

When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'

20088.2

Tell It Like a Woman

20224.2

Convict Cowboy

19956.5

Street Smart

2026

The Wine of Summer

20135.8

Pink Skies Ahead

20205.7

King of Texas

20025.2

In from the Night

20066.7

Home

20095.4

Fog City Mavericks

20078.5

Fever

19913.9

Guilty Hearts

20024.6

If I Were You

20136.6

Canvas

20066.3

In Broad Daylight

19916.1

Casa de los Babys

20035.6

Kojak: None So Blind

19906.3

Labor of Love

19988.0

Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel

19888.0

Late for Dinner

19915.7

The Cold Open

20197.5

Small Vices

19993.3

Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing

19976.3

Willa Cather: The Road Is All

200510.0

In the Night I Remember Your Name

20181.0

The Tower

2008

Crush

19926.0

Gaudi Afternoon

20014.9

Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

20065.0

Walking Shadow

20014.7

Not Only Strangers

197910.0

Geoffrey Beene 30

1993

See You in My Dreams

20048.0

Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater

2006

In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway

199310.0

Talking With

1995

Thin Air

20006.3

In the Echo

2026