Marcia Gay Harden
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1959-08-14
Place of Birth
La Jolla, California, USA
Marcia Gay Harden
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.
Also Known For
Meet Joe Black
Nov 12, 1998
Mystic River
Oct 08, 2003
Miller's Crossing
Sep 21, 1990
Spy Hard
May 24, 1996
Daughter of the Bride
Feb 03, 2023
The First Wives Club
Sep 20, 1996
Space Cowboys
Aug 04, 2000
The Mist
Nov 21, 2007
Into the Wild
Sep 21, 2007
Whip It
Apr 09, 2009
In from the Night
Apr 23, 2006
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
Apr 19, 2009
Mona Lisa Smile
Dec 19, 2003
The Maiden Heist
May 09, 2009
Desperate Measures
Jan 30, 1998
Felicity: An American Girl Adventure
Nov 29, 2005
American Dreamz
Mar 04, 2006
Flubber
Nov 26, 1997
The Invisible
Apr 27, 2007
Pollock
Sep 06, 2000
Bad News Bears
Jul 22, 2005
The Hoax
Oct 14, 2006
The Dead Girl
Nov 07, 2006
Christmas Cottage
Oct 15, 2008
Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
Feb 29, 1988
Rails & Ties
Sep 01, 2007
American Gun
Sep 15, 2005
Crush
Sep 15, 1992
Casa de los Babys
Sep 19, 2003
Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing
Jun 14, 1997
Welcome to Mooseport
Feb 24, 2004
King of Texas
Jun 02, 2002
The Spitfire Grill
Aug 23, 1996
Curtain Call
Dec 05, 1998
Safe Passage
Dec 01, 1994
Home
May 01, 2009
Innocent
Nov 29, 2011
Canvas
Nov 12, 2006
Detachment
Apr 24, 2011
Late for Dinner
Sep 20, 1991
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Feb 24, 2012
Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy
Feb 21, 2011
In Broad Daylight
Feb 03, 1991
If I Were You
Mar 15, 2013
Convict Cowboy
Jul 15, 1995
Get a Job
Mar 17, 2016
Small Vices
Jul 18, 1999
Parkland
Oct 02, 2013
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Apr 27, 2013
Walking Shadow
Aug 26, 2001
Fifty Shades of Grey
Feb 11, 2015
Thin Air
Sep 12, 2000
Magic in the Moonlight
Jul 25, 2014
Gaudi Afternoon
May 01, 2001
Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone
Apr 26, 2020
Elsa & Fred
Mar 07, 2014
Far Harbor
Nov 22, 1996
You're Not You
Oct 10, 2014
Confess, Fletch
Sep 16, 2022
Fever
May 11, 1991
See You in My Dreams
Jun 13, 2004
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
Jan 15, 2006
Grandma
Jun 04, 2015
She's Too Young
Feb 16, 2004
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
Sep 02, 2005
Used People
Dec 16, 1992
Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater
Jan 01, 2006
Unity
Aug 12, 2015
Knox Goes Away
Mar 15, 2024
After Words
Aug 21, 2015
Willa Cather: The Road Is All
Sep 07, 2005
The Wine of Summer
Sep 13, 2013
The Cold Open
Feb 23, 2019
Fifty Shades Darker
Feb 08, 2017
Talking With
Apr 19, 1995
Fifty Shades Freed
Jan 17, 2018
Labor of Love
May 04, 1998
Kojak: None So Blind
Apr 07, 1990
Renner
Feb 07, 2025
Not Only Strangers
Jan 01, 1979
Sex and Lies in Sin City
Oct 22, 2009
In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway
Jun 11, 1993
Guilty Hearts
Feb 10, 2002
Point Blank
Jul 12, 2019
P.S.
Oct 15, 2004
Geoffrey Beene 30
Apr 05, 1993
From Where I Sit
Jan 01, 2000
Love You to Death
Jan 26, 2019
Moxie
Mar 03, 2021
Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant
Jun 05, 2015
When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'
Mar 25, 2008
The Daytrippers
Mar 05, 1997
Pink Skies Ahead
Oct 18, 2020
Tell It Like a Woman
Oct 07, 2022
Gigi & Nate
Sep 02, 2022
Fog City Mavericks
Oct 24, 2007
The Tower
Jan 01, 2008
The Dreadful
Street Smart
In the Night I Remember Your Name
Jun 16, 2018
Mystic River: Beneath the Surface
Jun 08, 2004
Mystic River: From Page to Screen
Oct 31, 2003
This Ordinary Thing
Dec 05, 2025
Simon & Simon
Nov 24, 1981
The View
Aug 11, 1997
Tamron Hall
Sep 09, 2019
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Sep 20, 1999
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
May 25, 1992
Homicide: Life on the Street
Jan 31, 1993
Damages
Jul 24, 2007
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dec 24, 1951
Chicago Hope
Sep 18, 1994
The Education of Max Bickford
Sep 23, 2001
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
Drift
Trophy Wife
Sep 24, 2013
Money, Explained
May 11, 2021
How to Get Away with Murder
Sep 25, 2014
Bent
Mar 21, 2012
Code Black
Sep 30, 2015
Body of Proof
Mar 29, 2011
Gideon Oliver
Feb 20, 1989
Sinatra
Nov 08, 1992
So Help Me Todd
Sep 29, 2022
Sherri
Sep 12, 2022
Uncoupled
Jul 29, 2022
The Cuphead Show!
Feb 18, 2022
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Jul 16, 2009
Fallen Angels
Aug 01, 1993
RuPaul
Jun 10, 2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Sep 09, 2019
A Million Little Things
Sep 26, 2018
BoJack Horseman
Aug 22, 2014
The Morning Show
Nov 01, 2019
Reef Break
Jun 19, 2019
Barkskins
May 25, 2020
The Newsroom
Jun 24, 2012
Great Performances
Jan 28, 1971
The Oil Fund
Dec 16, 2018
BoJack Horseman
Aug 22, 2014
Royal Pains
Jun 04, 2009
TRINITY
Jul 16, 2026
