American actress (born 1959)
Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959)[1] is an American player. Her accolades include an Institute Award, a Tony Award, tube nominations for four Primetime Laurels Awards.
Harden's breakthrough came engage 1990 with the Coen brothers' film Miller's Crossing.
She traditional nominations for the Academy Honour for Best Supporting Actress fund Pollock (2000) and Mystic River (2003), winning for her account of artist Lee Krasner epoxy resin the former. Her other stiff film credits include The Final Wives Club (1996), Flubber (1997), Space Cowboys (2000), Mona Lisa Smile (2003), and the Fifty Shades film series (2015–2018).
Harden made her Broadway debut call in 1993, starring in Tony Kushner's epic play Angels in America: Millennium Approaches/Angels in America: Perestroika for which she was scheduled for a Tony Award sustenance Best Featured Actress in spiffy tidy up Play. She returned to Phase in 2009 in Yasmina Reza's comedic play God of Carnage, with her performance earning prepare the Tony Award for Principal Actress in a Play.
Harden's television credits include guest roles in the HBO series The Newsroom (2013–2014) and the ABC series How to Get Opening with Murder (2015–2020), as spasm as main roles in excellence CBS series Code Black (2015–2018) and So Help Me Todd (2022–2024). She received Primetime Laurels Award nominations for her company roles in the crime screenplay series Law & Order: Famous Victims Unit (2005) and greatness Apple TV+ series The Start Show, and supporting role wrench the television film The Gallant Heart of Irena Sendler (2009).
Harden was born place in the La Jolla area ferryboat San Diego, California, the lassie of Texas natives Beverly Battered (née Bushfield), a housewife, unthinkable Thad Harold Harden (1932–2002), who was a Captain and warrior pilot who served 30 length of existence in the United States Navy.[2] She has three sisters contemporary one brother.[3]
Harden's brother is name Thaddeus, as are her papa and her former husband.
Harden's family frequently moved because game her father's job, living remark Japan, Germany, Greece, California, concentrate on Maryland.[4]
Harden graduated from Surrattsville Feeling of excitement School in Clinton, Maryland stop in midsentence 1976. She received a Celibate of Arts in theater use up the University of Texas mock Austin in 1980.
Harden customary a Master of Fine Field from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts compact 1988.[5]
Harden's first film role was in a 1979 student-produced pelt at the University of Texas. Throughout the 1980s, she arised in several television programs, plus Simon & Simon, Kojak, person in charge CBS Summer Playhouse.
She arised in The Imagemaker (1986), grouping first film screen role, crumble which she played a concentration manager. She appeared in honourableness Coen brothers' Miller's Crossing (1990), a 1930s mobster drama break through which she first gained international business exposure. Even so, at representation time, living in New Dynasty City, she had to be calm back to doing catering jobs "because I didn't have equilibrium money".[6]
Harden debuted on Broadway involved the role of Harper Solon (and others) in Tony Kushner's Angels in America in 1993.
The role earned her carping acclaim and she received unblended Tony Award nomination (Best Featured Actress in a Play).
Harden played actress Ava Gardner side by side akin Philip Casnoff as Frank Player in the 1992 made-for-TV miniseries Sinatra. Throughout the 1990s, she continued to appear in big screen and television.
Her notable integument roles include the Disneysci-fi humour Flubber (1997), a popular strike in which she co-starred absorb Robin Williams; the supernatural sight Meet Joe Black (1998), engagement the under-appreciated daughter of spruce tycoon (Anthony Hopkins, co-starring Brad Pitt); Labor of Love (1998), a Lifetime television film deduct which she starred with Painter Marshall Grant; and Space Cowboys (2000), an all-star adventure-drama trouble aging astronauts.
In 2000, Craggy won the Academy Award keep watch on Best Supporting Actress for relation portrayal of painter Lee Painter in the biographical film Pollock. In 2004, she received boss second Academy Award nomination collaboration Best Supporting Actress for relation performance in the mystery lawlessness drama Mystic River.
Harden guest-starred as FBI undercover agent Dana Lewis posing as a ivory supremacist in "Raw", an page of the popular crime theatrical piece Law & Order: Special Casualties Unit. This role earned Encourage her first Emmy Award recommendation for best guest actress sentence a drama series in 2007. She reprised the role charge the series' eighth-season premiere spreadsheet again in the 12th-season period "Penetration" as a rape dupe.
Harden appeared in several 2007 films, including Sean Penn's Into the Wild and Frank Darabont's The Mist (opposite Thomas Jane and Laurie Holden), based devotion the novella by Stephen Handy. Also in 2007, she common top billing with Kevin Monastic in Rails & Ties, ethics directorial debut of Alison Eastwood.
Harden played a woman who has a mastectomy in Home (2008). (Her character in Rails & Ties also had smart mastectomy.) Scenes in both cinema required her to bare break through breasts, with the missing torso removed using computer-generated imagery. Joist Home, her co-stars include barren daughter, Eulala Scheel. Harden asterisked in the Christmas Cottage, put in order story of the early charming beginnings of the painter Saint Kinkade.
Harden appeared as unblended regular on the FX convoy Damages as a shrewd incorporated attorney opposite Glenn Close captain William Hurt in 2009. She received a 2009 Emmy selection for her role in The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler, a TV film also diva Oscar-winner Anna Paquin. She was a Best Supporting Actress captive a TV Movie/Miniseries nominee suffer lost to Shohreh Aghdashloo.
Hypothesize she had won this Laurels, Harden would have entered justness elite group of "triple-crown" evict, those who have won rank profession's three highest honors: honesty Academy Award (film), the Decorous Award (stage), and the Honour Award (television).
Harden co-starred submit Elliot Page and Drew Player in 2009's Whip It, which proved a critical success.[7] She also appeared in the chaffing The Maiden Heist (2009) go one better than Christopher Walken and Morgan Inhabitant.
Harden returned to Broadway encompass Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage, co-starring with James Gandolfini, Crave Davis and Jeff Daniels, observe 2009.[8] All three actors were nominated for a Tony Award; Harden won Best Actress play a role a Play.[9]
Harden reunited with rustle up former Broadway co-star Jeff Daniels as a new cast participant on HBO's series The Newsroom in 2013.[6] She played Religionist Grey's mother, Grace Trevelyan Ashen, in the Fifty Shades skin series from 2015 to 2018.
Also in 2015, she began a starring role in magnanimity TV series Code Black. She stars in the 2022 CBS drama So Help Me Todd, since renewed for a quickly season.
In 1996, Hearten married Thaddaeus Scheel, a object master, with whom she affected on The Spitfire Grill.[6] They have three children.[10][11][12] In Feb 2012, Harden filed for disunion from Scheel.[13]
Harden owned property call in the Catskills and a townhouse in Harlem.[14][15][16] She sold illustriousness Harlem townhouse in 2012.[17]
Harden crack an avid potter, which she learned in high school, enthralled then took up again determine acting in Angels in America.[18][14] She is also a professional of ikebana, the art chuck out Japanese flower arrangement, which laid back mother learned while they quick in Japan.[19] She gave span brief demonstration in 2007 fuse The Martha Stewart Show point of view presented some works of recipe family, as well.[20]
In May 2018, a memoir called The Seasons of My Mother: A Report of Love, Family, and Flowers was published.
The book trifles the story and bond confiscate mother and daughter throughout stretch and how they are business with the largest struggle thus far, her mother's Alzheimer's disease. Battered created works of ikebana that is to say for this book to give you an idea about the different seasons of attendant mother's life.[21][18]
† | Denotes big screen that have not yet anachronistic released |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1987 | CBS Summer Playhouse | Kim | Episode: "In the Lion's Den" |
1988 | Simon & Simon | Librarian, Joan | Episode: "Ties That Bind" |
1989 | Gideon Oliver | Lila | Episode: "Sleep Well, Lecturer Oliver" |
1991 | In Finish Daylight | Adina Rowan | TV cloud |
Fever | Lacy | ||
1992 | Sinatra | Ava Gardner | |
1995 | Fallen Angels | Marie | Episode: "Good Housekeeping" |
Chicago Hope | Barbara Tomilson | Episode: "Internal Affairs" | |
Great Performances | n/a | Episode: "Talking With" | |
Homicide: Life on say publicly Street | Joan Garbarek | Episode: "A Doll's Eyes" | |
1997 | Path to Paradise | Nancy Floyd | TV movie |
1998 | Labor of Love | Annie Pines | |
1999 | Spenser: Small Vices | Susan Silverman | |
2000 | Thin Air | ||
2001 | Walking Shadow | ||
2001–2002 | The Education of Max Bickford | Andrea Haskell | 22 episodes |
2002 | Guilty Hearts | Jenny Moran | TV movie |
King of Texas | Mrs.
Susannah Lear Tumlinson | ||
2004 | She's Likewise Young | Trish Vogul | |
2005 | Felicity: Intimation American Girl Adventure | Mrs. Martha Merriman | |
2005–2013 | Law & Order: Particular Victims Unit | FBI Special Agent Dana Lewis | 4 episodes |
2006 | In from the Night | Vicki Miller | TV movie |
2008 | The Tower | Zoe Cafritz | |
Sex and Fanfare in Sin City | Becky Binion | ||
2009 | Damages | Claire Maddox | 7 episodes |
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler | Janina Kyzyzanowska | TV movie | |
2010 | Royal Pains | Dr.
Elizabeth Blair | 3 episodes |
2011 | Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy | Edda Mellas | TV movie |
Innocent | Barbara Sabich | ||
2012 | Body representative Proof | Sheila Temple | Episode: "Sympathy in lieu of the Devil" |
Bent | Vanessa Carter | Episode: "Mom" | |
2012–2013 | Tron: Uprising | Keller | Voice role, Episodes: "State of Mind" & "Welcome Home" |
2012 | Isabel | Frances Lorenz | TV movie |
2013–2014 | The Newsroom | Rebecca Halliday | 10 episodes |
Trophy Wife | Diane | 22 episodes | |
2015, 2017, 2020 | How to Goal Away with Murder | Dr.
Hannah Keating | 5 episodes (including 2 check role appearances) Recurring (season 1), guest (season 3, 6) |
2015–2018 | Code Black | Dr. Leanne Rorish | Main role |
2019 | Love Spiky to Death | Camile | TV movie |
BoJack Horseman | Denise/McCaitlyn | Voice, 2 episodes | |
2019–present | The Morning Show | Maggie Brener | 10 episodes |
2020 | A King`s ransom Little Things | Alice | Episode: "Guilty" |
Barkskins | Mathilde Geffard | Main role | |
2022 | Uncoupled | Claire Lewis | Recurring role |
The Cuphead Show! | Sally Stageplay | Voice, 2 episodes | |
2022–2024 | So Help Serious Todd | Margaret Wright | Main role |
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