Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an American film and stage actress. She is the recipient of\u00a0many accolades\u00a0including an\u00a0Academy Award\u00a0and a\u00a0Tony Award, in addition to nominations for a\u00a0Critics’ Choice Movie Award\u00a0and three\u00a0Primetime Emmy Awards.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0Coen brothers-directed\u00a0Miller’s Crossing.<\/p>\n
Her next notable film credits include\u00a0The First Wives Club\u00a0(1996),\u00a0Flubber\u00a0(1997), and\u00a0Space Cowboys\u00a0(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\u00a0(2003). She received a second Academy Award nomination for her performance as Celeste Boyle in the drama film\u00a0Mystic River\u00a0(2003).<\/p>\n
She appeared in several 2007 films, including\u00a0Sean Penn’s\u00a0Into the Wild\u00a0and Frank Darabont’s\u00a0The Mist, based on the novella by\u00a0Stephen King. Also in 2007, she shared top billing with\u00a0Kevin Bacon\u00a0in\u00a0Rails & Ties, the directorial debut of\u00a0Alison Eastwood. Harden played a woman who has a mastectomy in\u00a0Home\u00a0(2008). (Her character in\u00a0Rails & Ties\u00a0also had a mastectomy.) One scene required her to bare her breasts, with the missing breast removed using\u00a0computer-generated imagery. In\u00a0Home, her co-stars include her daughter, Eulala Scheel.<\/p>\n
In 2009, she had quite a busy year. She appeared as a regular on the\u00a0FX\u00a0series Damages as a shrewd corporate attorney opposite\u00a0Glenn Close\u00a0and\u00a0William Hurt. She co-starred in the films Whip It, and The Maiden Heist. She returned to Broadway in\u00a0Yasmina Reza’s\u00a0God of Carnage, co-starring with\u00a0James Gandolfini,\u00a0Hope Davis and Jeff Daniels. All three actors were nominated for a Tony Award; Harden won Best Actress in a Play. She received her first\u00a0Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her role as FBI Special Agent Dana Lewis in the crime drama series\u00a0Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and earned a second\u00a0Primetime Emmy Award\u00a0nomination for her performance as Janina Krzy\u017canowska in the television film\u00a0The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler\u00a0(2009).<\/p>\n
She reunited with her former Broadway co-star\u00a0Jeff Daniels\u00a0as a new cast member on\u00a0HBO’s series\u00a0The Newsroom\u00a0in 2013. In 2015, she had a starring role in the medical\u00a0drama Code Black. Her other notable television credits include\u00a0ABC’s\u00a0How to Get Away with Murder and the\u00a0Apple TV+\u00a0series\u00a0The Morning Show.<\/p>\n
She played Christian Grey’s mother, Grace Trevelyan Grey, in the\u00a0Fifty Shades\u00a0film series\u00a0from 2015 to 2018. She stars in the 2022 CBS drama\u00a0So Help Me Todd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an American film and stage actress. She is the recipient of\u00a0many accolades\u00a0including an\u00a0Academy Award\u00a0and a\u00a0Tony Award, in addition to nominations for a\u00a0Critics’ Choice Movie Award\u00a0and three\u00a0Primetime Emmy Awards. She began her acting career appearing in television programs throughout the 1980s. In 1986, she appeared in her first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-25858","movie_engine_person","type-movie_engine_person","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n