Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden was born in La Jolla, California, United States on August 14th, 1959 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 64, Marcia Gay Harden biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an American actress.
Miller's Crossing, directed by Coen brothers Robert Miller in 1990, was her film breakthrough.
She continued in films including Used People (1992), The First Wives Club (1996), and Flubber (1997).
She received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as artist Lee Krasner in the 2000 film Pollock.
In Mystic River (2003), she received another Academy Award nomination for her role as Celeste Boyle.
American Gun (2005), and 2007's The Mist and Into the Wild were two other notable film roles. Harden made her Broadway debut in 1993, appearing in Angels in America, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award.
Veronica in God of Carnage returned to Broadway in 2009 as Veronica in God of Carnage.
Her appearance earned her the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Harden was nominated for her second Primetime Emmy Award for her role in the 2009 television film The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler.
Dr. Leanne Rorish of CBS Medical drama Code Black, as well as attorney Rebecca Halliday in the HBO Aaron Sorkin series The Newsroom are two of Harden's other television appearances.
Early life
Harden was born in La Jolla, California, the daughter of Texas natives Beverly Harden (née Bushfield), a housewife, and Thad Harold Harden (1932-2002), who served as an officer in the United States Navy. She has three sisters and one brother.
As are her father and her estranged husband, Harden's brother is named Thaddeus. Because of her father's work, family members in Japan, Germany, Greece, California, and Maryland have often migrated.
In 1976, Harden graduated from Surrattsville High School in Clinton, Maryland. In 1980, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in theater from the University of Texas at Austin. Harden received a Master of Fine Arts from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1988.
Personal life
Harden married Thaddaeus Scheel, a prop master with whom she served on The Spitfire Grill in 1996. They have three children, Eulala Scheel (born September 1998), and twins Julitta Dee Scheel and Hudson Harden Scheel (born April 22, 2004). Harden filed for divorce from Scheel in February 2012.
Harden has owned a house in the Catskills and a townhouse in Harlem. In 2012, she purchased the Harlem townhouse.
Harden is a huge potter who adored high school and then took up acting in Angels in America.
Harden is a practitioner of ikebana, or Japanese flower arrangement, which her mother learned while living in Japan. In 2007, she gave a brief display on The Martha Stewart Exhibition and showcased some of her family's works as well. In May 2018, a memoir called The Seasons of My Mother: A Memoir of Love, Family, and Flowers was published. The book explores how mother and daughter are battling the most challenging issue yet, her mother's Alzheimer's disease. Harden created ikebana illustrations to show the different seasons of her mother's life.
Career
Harden's first film role came in a 1979 student-produced film at the University of Texas. She appeared on many television shows, including Simon & Simon, Kojak, and CBS Summer Playhouse in the 1980s. She appeared on The Imagemaker (1986), her first film screen role in which she appeared as a stage manager. She appeared in Miller's Crossing (1990), a 1930s mobster drama in which she first gained wide notice. Even so, living in New York City at the time, she was forced to return to catering "because she didn't have any money" for this.
In 1993, Harden appeared on Broadway in the role of Harper Pitt (and others) in Tony Kushner's Angels in America. The role earned her critical acclaim, as well as a Tony Award nomination (Best Featured Actress in a Play).
In the 1992 made-for-TV miniseries Sinatra, Harden portrayed actress Ava Gardner alongside Philip Casnoff as Frank Sinatra. She continued to appear in films and television during the 1990s. Her most notable film appearances include Flubber (1996), a Disney sci-fi film in which she co-starred Robin Williams; Meet Joe Black (1998), a Lifetime television film in which she appeared alongside David Marshall Grant; and Space Cowboys (2001), an all-star adventure-drama about aging astronauts.
In 2000, Harden received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as painter Lee Krasner in the biographical film Pollock. In 2004, she was nominated for Best Support Actress in the mystery crime drama Mystic River for her second Academy Award nomination.
In "Raw," an episode of the famous crime thriller Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Harden guest-starred as FBI undercover agent Dana Lewis posing as a white supremacist. Harden received her first Emmy Award nomination in a drama series in 2007. In the 12th-season episode "Penetration" as a rape victim, she reprised her role in the series' eighth-season premiere and then again as a rape victim.
Harden appeared in several films in 2007, including Sean Penn's Into the Wild and Frank Darabont's The Mist (opposite Thomas Jane and Laurie Holden), based on Stephen King's novella. Alison Eastwood's debut in 2007 shared top billing with Kevin Bacon in Rails & Ties. In Home (2008), Harden played a woman with a mastectomy. (Her character in Rails & Ties had a mastectomy) According to one scene, she had to bare her breasts, with the missing breast depicted using computer-generated images. Eulala Scheel, Eulala Scheel, is one of her daughter's co-stars in Home. In the Christmas Cottage, Harden starred, a tale about the early artistic roots of Painter of Light Thomas Kinkade.
In 2009, Harden appeared as a regular on the FX series Damages as a shrewish corporate advocate opposite Glenn Close and William Hurt. Anna Paquin, a Grammy Award-winning actress, was nominated for her role in The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler, a TV film starring Oscar-winning actor Anna Paquin. She was a Best Supporting Actress in a TV Movie/Miniseries nominee and lost to Shohreh Aghdashloo. If she had won this Emmy, Harden would have joined the elite group of "triple-crown" actors, those who have received the Academy Award (film), the Tony Award (stage), and Emmy Award (television).
In 2009's Whip It, which was a critical success, Harden co-starred Elliot Page and Drew Barrymore. She appeared in The Maiden Heist (2009), as well as Christopher Walken and Morgan Freeman.
In 2009, Harden returned to Broadway in Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage, co-starring James Gandolfini, Hope Davis, and Jeff Daniels. Harden was nominated for a Tony Award, and all three actors were nominated for Best Actress in a Play.
In 2013, Harden reunited with her longtime Broadway co-star Jeff Daniels as a new cast member of HBO's series The Newsroom. Grace Trevelyan Grey, Christian Grey's mother, appeared in the Fifty Shades film series from 2015 to 2018. She debuted in 2015 as a lead in the television series Code Black. So Help Me Todd, a CBS drama, stars Heather MacDonald.