
Marcia Gay Harden
Acting
🎂 1959-08-14
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.
Cast credits(142)

Dana Lewis
1999

Self
2019

Self - Guest
2009

Self - Guest
2022

Denise (voice)
2014

Denise / McCaitlyn (voice)
2014

2015

Maggie Brener
2019

Dr. Grey
2015

Hannah Keating
2014

1994

Grace Grey
2018

Self - Guest
2019

Self
1971

1981

1993

Self
1997

1992

Dr. Elizabeth Blair
2009

Alice Mendez
2018

Grace Trevelyan Grey
2017

Claire Maddox
2007

Rebecca Halliday
2012

Allison
1998

Sheila Temple
2011

Self
1953

Celeste Boyle
2003

Billie McCandless
2007

Sally Stageplay (voice)
2022

Dr. Leanne Rorish
2015

Marie
1993

Margaret
2022

Mrs. Carmody
2007

Megan Stark
2007

Principal Carol Dearden
2011

Ruby Knox
2024

Miss Cheevus
1996

Verna
1990
Self
2003
Self
2004

Sara Holland
2000

Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds
1997

Self - Presenter
2005

Dr. Leslie Rosen
1996

Nancy Abbey
2003

Doris Nelson
2013

Liz Whitewood
2005

Principal Shelly
2021

Claire Lewis
2022

Dr. Diane Buckley
2013

Andrea Haskell
2001

Dr. Samantha Hawkins
1998

Lieutenant Lewis
2019

Salenus (voice)
2025

Brooke Cavendar
2009

Self - Narrator
2021

Diane
2023

First Lady
2006

Lee Krasner
2000

Mrs. Baker
2014

Janina Krzyżanowska
2009

Katherine Dunn
2016

Self
2019

Rose Barlow
2009

Dr. Partovi

Betty Ann Miller
2019

Diane Powell
2007

Elizabeth
2014

Countess Sylvia de Grassi
2022

Melora
2006

Lydia
2014

Edda Mellas
2011

2019

Judy
2015

Self
2013

Lacy
1991

Narrator (voice)
2015

Claire Gibson
2022

Mathilde Geffard
2020

Vicki Miller
1951

Camile Stoller
2019

Missy Goldberg
2004

Vanessa Carter
2012

Pastor Joyce Speegle (voice)
2018

Trish Vogul
2004

Mrs. Martha Merriman
2005
Morwen

Shelley
2013

Pamela
2020

Angelina
1990

President of the FAFAFA
2015

Nan
2003

Dr. Partovi
2022

Marjorie Dunfour
2012

Edith Irving
2006

Mrs. Susannah Lear Tumlinson
2002

1993

Michelle Tippet
1998

Maryanne Kinkade
2008

Shelby Goddard
1996

Self
2020

Arabella
1996

Maggie Sinclair
1995

Janet Huttenson
2005

Frankie
2001

Barbara Sabich
2011

Self
2007

Susan Silverman
1999

Self
2008

Cynthia
1994

Norma
1992

Ava Gardner
1992

Lila
1989

Grace Sutherland
2004

Madelyn
2013

Libby
1997
Zoe Cafritz
2008

Jenny Moran
2002

Mary Marino
2006

Joy Husband
1991

Adina Rowan
1991

Susan Silverman
2001

USA Ambassadør
2018

Becky Binion
2008

Susan Silverman
2000

Self
2006

Marcia Connelly
1988

Angela Brown
2004

Jane Taylor
2015

Inga
2009

Annie Pines
1998
Sharon
2000

Vicki Miller
2006
Margaret Vandenburg

Lane
1992

Jennie
1979

Nancy Floyd
1997
1993
Narrator
2006

Laurie (segment "Clear Glass Marbles")
1995
Voice of Willa Cather
2005