Marcia Gay Harden
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.
Known For
Allison
Meet Joe Black
Celeste Boyle
Mystic River
Verna
Miller's Crossing
Miss Cheevus
Spy Hard
Diane
Daughter of the Bride
Dr. Leslie Rosen
The First Wives Club
Sara Holland
Space Cowboys
Mrs. Carmody
The Mist
Billie McCandless
Into the Wild
Brooke Cavendar
Whip It
Vicki Miller
In from the Night
Janina Krzyżanowska
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
Nancy Abbey
Mona Lisa Smile
Rose Barlow
The Maiden Heist
Dr. Samantha Hawkins
Desperate Measures
Mrs. Martha Merriman
Felicity: An American Girl Adventure
First Lady
American Dreamz
Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds
Flubber
Diane Powell
The Invisible
Lee Krasner
Pollock
Liz Whitewood
Bad News Bears
Edith Irving
The Hoax
Melora
The Dead Girl
Maryanne Kinkade
Christmas Cottage
Marcia Connelly
Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
Megan Stark
Rails & Ties
Janet Huttenson
American Gun
Lane
Crush
Nan
Casa de los Babys
Nancy Floyd
Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing
Grace Sutherland
Welcome to Mooseport
Shelby Goddard
The Spitfire Grill
Mrs. Susannah Lear Tumlinson
King of Texas
Michelle Tippet
Curtain Call
Cynthia
Safe Passage
Inga
Home
Barbara Sabich
Innocent
Mary Marino
Canvas
Principal Carol Dearden
Detachment
Joy Husband
Late for Dinner
Marjorie Dunfour
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Edda Mellas
Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy
Adina Rowan
In Broad Daylight
Madelyn
If I Were You
Maggie Sinclair
Convict Cowboy
Katherine Dunn
Get a Job
Susan Silverman
Small Vices
Doris Nelson
Parkland
Self
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Susan Silverman
Walking Shadow
Dr. Grey
Fifty Shades of Grey
Susan Silverman
Thin Air
Mrs. Baker
Magic in the Moonlight
Frankie
Gaudi Afternoon
Self
Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone
Lydia
Elsa & Fred
Arabella
Far Harbor
Elizabeth
You're Not You
Countess Sylvia de Grassi
Confess, Fletch
Lacy
Fever
Angela Brown
See You in My Dreams
Self
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
Judy
Grandma
Trish Vogul
She's Too Young
Self - Presenter
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
Norma
Used People
Narrator
Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater
Narrator (voice)
Unity
Ruby Knox
Knox Goes Away
Jane Taylor
After Words
Voice of Willa Cather
Willa Cather: The Road Is All
Shelley
The Wine of Summer
The Cold Open
Grace Trevelyan Grey
Fifty Shades Darker
Laurie (segment "Clear Glass Marbles")
Talking With
Grace Grey
Fifty Shades Freed
Annie Pines
Labor of Love
Angelina
Kojak: None So Blind
Salenus (voice)
Renner
Jennie
Not Only Strangers
Becky Binion
Sex and Lies in Sin City
In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway
Jenny Moran
Guilty Hearts
Lieutenant Lewis
Point Blank
Missy Goldberg
P.S.
Geoffrey Beene 30
Sharon
From Where I Sit
Camile Stoller
Love You to Death
Principal Shelly
Moxie
President of the FAFAFA
Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant
Self
When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'
Libby
The Daytrippers
Pamela
Pink Skies Ahead
Dr. Partovi
Tell It Like a Woman
Claire Gibson
Gigi & Nate
Self
Fog City Mavericks
Zoe Cafritz
The Tower
Morwen
The Dreadful
Dr. Partovi
Street Smart
Pastor Joyce Speegle (voice)
In the Night I Remember Your Name
Self
Mystic River: Beneath the Surface
Self
Mystic River: From Page to Screen
Self (voice)
This Ordinary Thing
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
103
Gender
Female
Birthday
1959-08-14
Place of Birth
La Jolla, California, USA
Also Known As
Marsha Gay Harden