Marcia Gay Harden
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 14, 1959 (age 67)
- Birthplace
- La Jolla, California, USA
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.
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Filmography
In the Echo
Movie · as Marcia
Hystoria
Movie
Zero Protocol
Movie · as Gloria
Drift
TV · 1 ep
The Dreadful
Movie · as Morwen
Street Smart
Movie · as Dr. Partovi
Trinity
TV · as Margaret Vandenburg · 7 eps
Margo's Got Money Troubles
TV · as Elizabeth Gable · 5 eps
Renner
Movie · as Salenus (voice)
This Ordinary Thing
Movie · as Self (voice)
Knox Goes Away
Movie · as Ruby Knox
Murder in a Small Town
TV · as Mayor Christie Holman · 7 eps
Daughter of the Bride
Movie · as Diane
Confess, Fletch
Movie · as Countess Sylvia de Grassi
Tell It Like a Woman
Movie · as Dr. Partovi
Gigi & Nate
Movie · as Claire Gibson
So Help Me Todd
TV · as Margaret · 31 eps
Sherri
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Uncoupled
TV · as Claire Lewis · 6 eps
The Cuphead Show!
TV · as Sally Stageplay (voice) · 2 eps
Moxie
Movie · as Principal Shelly
Money, Explained
TV · as Self - Narrator · 1 ep
Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone
Movie · as Self
Pink Skies Ahead
Movie · as Pamela
Barkskins
TV · as Mathilde Geffard · 8 eps
The Cold Open
Movie
Point Blank
Movie · as Lieutenant Lewis
Love You to Death
Movie · as Camile Stoller
The Tamron Hall Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
RuPaul
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Morning Show
TV · as Maggie Brener · 10 eps
Reef Break
TV · as Betty Ann Miller · 1 ep
Fifty Shades Freed
Movie · as Grace Grey
In the Night I Remember Your Name
Movie · as Pastor Joyce Speegle (voice)
A Million Little Things
TV · as Alice Mendez · 1 ep
The Oil Fund
TV · as USA Ambassadør · 2 eps
Fifty Shades Darker
Movie · as Grace Trevelyan Grey
Get a Job
Movie · as Katherine Dunn
Fifty Shades of Grey
Movie · as Dr. Grey
Grandma
Movie · as Judy
Unity
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
After Words
Movie · as Jane Taylor
Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant
Movie · as President of the FAFAFA
Code Black
TV · as Dr. Leanne Rorish · 47 eps
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Magic in the Moonlight
Movie · as Mrs. Baker
Elsa & Fred
Movie · as Lydia
You're Not You
Movie · as Elizabeth
How to Get Away with Murder
TV · as Hannah Keating · 3 eps
BoJack Horseman
TV · as Denise (voice), Denise / McCaitlyn (voice) · 1 ep
If I Were You
Movie · as Madelyn
Parkland
Movie · as Doris Nelson
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Movie · as Self
The Wine of Summer
Movie · as Shelley
Trophy Wife
TV · as Dr. Diane Buckley · 22 eps
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Movie · as Marjorie Dunfour
Bent
TV · as Vanessa Carter · 1 ep
The Newsroom
TV · as Rebecca Halliday · 10 eps
Innocent
Movie · as Barbara Sabich
Detachment
Movie · as Principal Carol Dearden
Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy
Movie · as Edda Mellas
Body of Proof
TV · as Sheila Temple · 1 ep
Whip It
Movie · as Brooke Cavendar
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
Movie · as Janina Krzyżanowska
The Maiden Heist
Movie · as Rose Barlow
Home
Movie · as Inga
Sex and Lies in Sin City
Movie · as Becky Binion
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Royal Pains
TV · as Dr. Elizabeth Blair · 3 eps
Christmas Cottage
Movie · as Maryanne Kinkade
When Darkness Came: The Making of The Mist
Movie · as Self
The Tower
Movie · as Zoe Cafritz
The Mist
Movie · as Mrs. Carmody
Into the Wild
Movie · as Billie McCandless
The Invisible
Movie · as Diane Powell
Rails & Ties
Movie · as Megan Stark
Fog City Mavericks
Movie · as Self
Damages
TV · as Claire Maddox · 13 eps
In from the Night
Movie · as Vicki Miller
American Dreamz
Movie · as First Lady
The Hoax
Movie · as Edith Irving
The Dead Girl
Movie · as Melora
Canvas
Movie · as Mary Marino
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
Movie · as Self
Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater
Movie · as Narrator
Felicity: An American Girl Adventure
Movie · as Mrs. Martha Merriman
Bad News Bears
Movie · as Liz Whitewood
American Gun
Movie · as Janet Huttenson
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
Movie · as Self - Presenter
Willa Cather: The Road Is All
Movie · as Voice of Willa Cather
Welcome to Mooseport
Movie · as Grace Sutherland
See You in My Dreams
Movie · as Angela Brown
She's Too Young
Movie · as Trish Vogul
P.S.
Movie · as Missy Goldberg
Mystic River: Beneath the Surface
Movie · as Self
Mystic River
Movie · as Celeste Boyle
Mona Lisa Smile
Movie · as Nancy Abbey
Casa de los Babys
Movie · as Nan
Mystic River: From Page to Screen
Movie · as Self
King of Texas
Movie · as Mrs. Susannah Lear Tumlinson
Guilty Hearts
Movie · as Jenny Moran
Walking Shadow
Movie · as Susan Silverman
Gaudi Afternoon
Movie · as Frankie
The Education of Max Bickford
TV · as Andrea Haskell · 22 eps
Space Cowboys
Movie · as Sara Holland
Pollock
Movie · as Lee Krasner
Thin Air
Movie · as Susan Silverman
From Where I Sit
Movie · as Sharon
Small Vices
Movie · as Susan Silverman
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV · as Dana Lewis · 4 eps
Meet Joe Black
Movie · as Allison
Desperate Measures
Movie · as Dr. Samantha Hawkins
Curtain Call
Movie · as Michelle Tippet
Labor of Love
Movie · as Annie Pines
Flubber
Movie · as Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds
Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing
Movie · as Nancy Floyd
The Daytrippers
Movie · as Libby
The View
TV · as Self · 7 eps
Spy Hard
Movie · as Miss Cheevus
The First Wives Club
Movie · as Dr. Leslie Rosen
The Spitfire Grill
Movie · as Shelby Goddard
Far Harbor
Movie · as Arabella
Convict Cowboy
Movie · as Maggie Sinclair
Talking With
Movie · as Laurie (segment "Clear Glass Marbles")
Safe Passage
Movie · as Cynthia
Chicago Hope
TV · as Barbara Tomilson · 1 ep
In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway
Movie
Geoffrey Beene 30
Movie
Homicide: Life on the Street
TV · as Joan Garbarek · 1 ep
Fallen Angels
TV · as Marie · 1 ep
Crush
Movie · as Lane
Used People
Movie · as Norma
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV · 1 ep
Sinatra
TV · as Ava Gardner · 2 eps
Late for Dinner
Movie · as Joy Husband
In Broad Daylight
Movie · as Adina Rowan
Fever
Movie · as Lacy
Miller's Crossing
Movie · as Verna
Kojak: None So Blind
Movie · as Angelina
Gideon Oliver
TV · as Lila · 1 ep
Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
Movie · as Marcia Connelly
American Playhouse
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Simon & Simon
TV · 1 ep
Not Only Strangers
Movie · as Jennie
People's Choice Awards
TV · as Self - Presenter · 1 ep
Great Performances
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 4 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Vicki Miller · 1 ep