Marcia Gay Harden

Acting · 2.9 popularity

Age

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 Freed

20186.7

Fifty Shades of Grey

20155.9

The Mist

20077.0

Mystic River

20037.7

Meet Joe Black

19987.4

Into the Wild

20077.8

Fifty Shades Darker

20176.5

Flubber

19975.7

Spy Hard

19965.4

Detachment

20117.6

The Dreadful

20266.1

Whip It

20096.7

Space Cowboys

20006.4

The First Wives Club

19966.7

Bad News Bears

20055.8

Mona Lisa Smile

20036.9

Miller's Crossing

19907.4

Parkland

20136.2

Get a Job

20165.3

Knox Goes Away

20247.0

Confess, Fletch

20226.2

Point Blank

20196.0

You're Not You

20147.4

The Invisible

20076.4

Desperate Measures

19986.0

Moxie

20217.2

Welcome to Mooseport

20045.1

The Hoax

20066.3

Magic in the Moonlight

20146.5

P.S.

20045.6

Gigi & Nate

20227.6

The Maiden Heist

20095.7

Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant

20154.6

The Dead Girl

20066.0

Grandma

20156.4

American Dreamz

20065.1

Pollock

20006.7

Far Harbor

19964.2

The Spitfire Grill

19966.5

Renner

20255.2

Used People

19925.8

Innocent

20115.7

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

20097.3

Fog City Mavericks

20078.5

Unity

20157.5

Christmas Cottage

20086.3

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

20136.1

Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast

20052.0

Love You to Death

20197.6

Elsa & Fred

20145.9

Rails & Ties

20076.4

Felicity: An American Girl Adventure

20056.6

American Gun

20055.7

This Ordinary Thing

2025

Curtain Call

19985.1

Daughter of the Bride

20235.8

Tell It Like a Woman

20224.2

Sex and Lies in Sin City

20093.4

The Daytrippers

19976.6

From Where I Sit

20009.0

When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'

20088.2

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

20125.5

The Wine of Summer

20135.8

In from the Night

20066.7

Mystic River: From Page to Screen

200310.0

Pink Skies Ahead

20205.7

After Words

20155.3

Home

20095.4

Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy

20116.1

Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone

202010.0

Willa Cather: The Road Is All

200510.0

Safe Passage

19945.9

In Broad Daylight

19916.1

Mystic River: Beneath the Surface

20049.5

King of Texas

20025.2

She's Too Young

20045.8

Fever

19913.9

Street Smart

2026

The Cold Open

20197.5

Convict Cowboy

19956.5

Guilty Hearts

20024.6

If I Were You

20136.6

Kojak: None So Blind

19906.3

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

19888.0

Labor of Love

19988.0

Canvas

20066.3

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

19976.3

In the Night I Remember Your Name

20181.0

Late for Dinner

19915.7

Crush

19926.0

Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

20065.0

Small Vices

19993.3

Casa de los Babys

20035.6

Thin Air

20006.3

Walking Shadow

20014.7

Gaudi Afternoon

20014.9

See You in My Dreams

20048.0

The Tower

2008

Geoffrey Beene 30

1993

In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway

199310.0

In the Echo

2026

Not Only Strangers

197910.0

Talking With

1995

Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater

2006