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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

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