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Marcia Gay Harden

Marcia Gay Harden

Acting

August 14, 1959 (66 years old)
La Jolla, California, USA
Female
105 Movies
44 TV Shows

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.

Into the Wild
Into the Wild

Into the Wild

2007 7.8

as Billie McCandless

Age 48 (now 66)
Detachment
Detachment

Detachment

2011 7.6

as Principal Carol Dearden

Age 51 (now 66)
Miller's Crossing
Miller's Crossing

Miller's Crossing

1990 7.4

as Verna

Age 31 (now 66)
The Mist
The Mist

The Mist

2007 6.9

as Mrs. Carmody

Age 48 (now 66)
Mystic River
Mystic River

Mystic River

2003 7.7

as Celeste Boyle

Age 44 (now 66)
Flubber
Flubber

Flubber

1997 5.7

as Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds

Age 38 (now 66)
Meet Joe Black
Meet Joe Black

Meet Joe Black

1998 7.4

as Allison

Age 39 (now 66)
Whip It
Whip It

Whip It

2009 6.7

as Brooke Cavendar

Age 49 (now 66)
Magic in the Moonlight
Magic in the Moonlight

Magic in the Moonlight

2014 6.5

as Mrs. Baker

Age 54 (now 66)
Fifty Shades of Grey
Fifty Shades of Grey

Fifty Shades of Grey

2015 5.9

as Dr. Grey

Age 55 (now 66)
Code Black
Code Black

Code Black

2015 7.8

as Dr. Leanne Rorish

Age 56 (now 66)
47 eps
Pollock
Pollock

Pollock

2000 6.7

as Lee Krasner

Age 41 (now 66)
Parkland
Parkland

Parkland

2013 6.3

as Doris Nelson

Age 54 (now 66)
Knox Goes Away
Knox Goes Away

Knox Goes Away

2024 7.0

as Ruby Knox

Age 64 (now 66)
The Invisible
The Invisible

The Invisible

2007 6.4

as Diane Powell

Age 47 (now 66)
Point Blank
Point Blank

Point Blank

2019 6.0

as Lieutenant Lewis

Age 59 (now 66)