
Marcia Gay Harden
Born August 14, 1959 · La Jolla, California, USA
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.
Movies

Fifty Shades of Grey

Fifty Shades Freed

Meet Joe Black

The Mist

Into the Wild

Mystic River

Fifty Shades Darker

Spy Hard

Confess, Fletch

Detachment

You're Not You

Knox Goes Away

Miller's Crossing

Mona Lisa Smile

Space Cowboys

Flubber

The First Wives Club

Parkland

Whip It

The Invisible

Magic in the Moonlight

Desperate Measures

The Maiden Heist

The Dreadful

Get a Job

Grandma

Bad News Bears

Moxie

Tell It Like a Woman

Point Blank

Welcome to Mooseport

The Dead Girl

Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast

American Dreamz

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

Love You to Death
TV Shows

The View

Sherri

Great Performances

American Playhouse

Chicago Hope

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Tamron Hall Show

BoJack Horseman

How to Get Away with Murder

Homicide: Life on the Street

Damages

Simon & Simon

The Morning Show

A Million Little Things

Body of Proof

The Oscars

Royal Pains

The Newsroom

People's Choice Awards

So Help Me Todd

The Cuphead Show!

Murder in a Small Town

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Fallen Angels

Code Black

RuPaul

Trophy Wife

The Education of Max Bickford

Uncoupled

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Reef Break

Money, Explained

Bent

Barkskins

Sinatra

The Oil Fund
More Movies

The Hoax

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

The Daytrippers

The Spitfire Grill

Unity

Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

Gigi & Nate

Felicity: An American Girl Adventure

Elsa & Fred

Christmas Cottage

Daughter of the Bride

Pollock

This Ordinary Thing

In from the Night

P.S.

Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel

She's Too Young

Casa de los Babys

Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

Far Harbor

Sex and Lies in Sin City

Innocent

If I Were You

Curtain Call

Pink Skies Ahead

Rails & Ties

Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone

Renner

American Gun

The Wine of Summer

Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing

Kojak: None So Blind

When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'

Street Smart

Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy

Used People

Safe Passage

Fog City Mavericks

Guilty Hearts

See You in My Dreams

King of Texas

Convict Cowboy

Home

Small Vices

In Broad Daylight

In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway

Fever

Gaudi Afternoon

Thin Air

The Cold Open

Talking With

Late for Dinner

Canvas

After Words

In the Night I Remember Your Name

Willa Cather: The Road Is All

Walking Shadow

Crush

Labor of Love




