10.0
10.0
Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone
2020
as Self
Marcia Gay Harden
Acting
Born:August 14, 1959(age 67)
Birthplace:La Jolla, California, USA
Nationality:United States
Education:University of Texas at Austin, New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Surrattsville High School
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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.
Filmography (98 movies)
8.2
8.2
When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'
2008
as Self
7.8
7.8
Into the Wild
2007
as Billie McCandless
7.7
7.7
Mystic River
2003
as Celeste Boyle
7.6
7.6
Detachment
2011
as Principal Carol Dearden
7.6
7.6
Love You to Death
2019
as Camile Stoller
7.6
7.6
Gigi & Nate
2022
as Claire Gibson
7.5
7.5
The Cold Open
2019
7.4
7.4
Miller's Crossing
1990
as Verna
7.4
7.4
You're Not You
2014
as Elizabeth
7.4
7.4
Meet Joe Black
1998
as Allison
7.3
7.3
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
2009
as Janina Krzyżanowska
7.2
7.2
Moxie
2021
as Principal Shelly
6.9
6.9
Knox Goes Away
2024
as Ruby Knox
6.9
6.9
The Mist
2007
as Mrs. Carmody
6.9
6.9
Mona Lisa Smile
2003
as Nancy Abbey
6.7
6.7
The First Wives Club
1996
as Dr. Leslie Rosen
6.7
6.7
Whip It
2009
as Brooke Cavendar
6.7
6.7
In from the Night
2006
as Vicki Miller
6.7
6.7
Fifty Shades Freed
2018
as Grace Grey
6.7
6.7
Pollock
2000
as Lee Krasner
6.6
6.6
Felicity: An American Girl Adventure
2005
as Mrs. Martha Merriman
6.6
6.6
If I Were You
2013
as Madelyn
6.5
6.5
Magic in the Moonlight
2014
as Mrs. Baker
6.5
6.5
Fifty Shades Darker
2017
as Grace Trevelyan Grey
6.5
6.5
The Daytrippers
1997
as Libby
6.4
6.4
Grandma
2015
as Judy
6.4
6.4
The Spitfire Grill
1996
as Shelby Goddard
6.4
6.4
Space Cowboys
2000
as Sara Holland
6.3
6.3
Rails & Ties
2007
as Megan Stark
6.3
6.3
The Invisible
2007
as Diane Powell
6.3
6.3
Canvas
2006
as Mary Marino
6.3
6.3
Christmas Cottage
2008
as Maryanne Kinkade
6.3
6.3
Parkland
2013
as Doris Nelson
6.2
6.2
The Hoax
2006
as Edith Irving
6.2
6.2
Confess, Fletch
2022
as Countess Sylvia de Grassi
6.1
6.1
Convict Cowboy
1995
as Maggie Sinclair
6.1
6.1
Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy
2011
as Edda Mellas
6.0
6.0
Desperate Measures
1998
as Dr. Samantha Hawkins
6.0
6.0
Point Blank
2019
as Lieutenant Lewis
6.0
6.0
The Dead Girl
2006
as Melora
6.0
6.0
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013
as Self
6.0
6.0
Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing
1997
as Nancy Floyd
6.0
6.0
Kojak: None So Blind
1990
as Angelina
6.0
6.0
The Dreadful
2026
as Morwen
6.0
6.0
Elsa & Fred
2014
as Lydia
5.9
5.9
Daughter of the Bride
2023
as Diane
5.9
5.9
Fifty Shades of Grey
2015
as Dr. Grey
5.8
5.8
Safe Passage
1994
as Cynthia
5.8
5.8
Crush
1992
as Lane
5.8
5.8
Bad News Bears
2005
as Liz Whitewood
5.7
5.7
Flubber
1997
as Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds
5.7
5.7
Used People
1992
as Norma
5.7
5.7
In Broad Daylight
1991
as Adina Rowan
5.7
5.7
Pink Skies Ahead
2020
as Pamela
5.7
5.7
She's Too Young
2004
as Trish Vogul
5.7
5.7
Innocent
2011
as Barbara Sabich
5.6
5.6
The Maiden Heist
2009
as Rose Barlow
5.6
5.6
The Wine of Summer
2013
as Shelley
5.6
5.6
American Gun
2005
as Janet Huttenson
5.6
5.6
Late for Dinner
1991
as Joy Husband
5.6
5.6
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
2012
as Marjorie Dunfour
5.6
5.6
P.S.
2004
as Missy Goldberg
5.4
5.4
Casa de los Babys
2003
as Nan
5.4
5.4
Home
2009
as Inga
5.4
5.4
Spy Hard
1996
as Miss Cheevus
5.3
5.3
Get a Job
2016
as Katherine Dunn
5.3
5.3
Renner
2025
as Salenus (voice)
5.2
5.2
After Words
2015
as Jane Taylor
5.1
5.1
King of Texas
2002
as Mrs. Susannah Lear Tumlinson
5.1
5.1
Welcome to Mooseport
2004
as Grace Sutherland
5.0
5.0
American Dreamz
2006
as First Lady
5.0
5.0
Thin Air
2000
as Susan Silverman
4.9
4.9
Curtain Call
1998
as Michelle Tippet
4.8
4.8
Gaudi Afternoon
2001
as Frankie
4.2
4.2
Tell It Like a Woman
2022
as Dr. Partovi
3.8
3.8
Far Harbor
1996
as Arabella
3.5
3.5
Guilty Hearts
2002
as Jenny Moran
3.5
3.5
Walking Shadow
2001
as Susan Silverman
3.4
3.4
Fever
1991
as Lacy
3.3
3.3
Sex and Lies in Sin City
2009
as Becky Binion
2.0
2.0
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
2005
as Self - Presenter
2.0
2.0
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
2006
as Self
1.0
1.0
In the Night I Remember Your Name
2018
as Pastor Joyce Speegle (voice)
1.0
1.0
Small Vices
1999
as Susan Silverman
The Tower
2008
as Zoe Cafritz
Geoffrey Beene 30
1993
In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway
1993
Not Only Strangers
1979
as Jennie
See You in My Dreams
2004
as Angela Brown
From Where I Sit
2000
as Sharon
Willa Cather: The Road Is All
2005
as Voice of Willa Cather
Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater
2006
as Narrator
Labor of Love
1998
as Annie Pines
Talking With
1995
as Laurie (segment "Clear Glass Marbles")
Street Smart
TBA
as Dr. Partovi
Mystic River: Beneath the Surface
2004
as Self
Mystic River: From Page to Screen
2003
as Self
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