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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 14, 1959
Place of Birth
La Jolla, California, USA
Also Known As
- Marsha Gay Harden
- Marcia Harden
- 马西娅·盖伊·哈登
- Марша Гей Харден
- Gay Hagen
Marcia Gay Harden
1.3 Popularity
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
4.3
Salenus (voice)
Renner
2025
7.0
Ruby Knox
Knox Goes Away
2024
5.9
Diane
Daughter of the Bride
2023
4.2
Dr. Partovi
Tell It Like a Woman
2022
7.4
Margaret
So Help Me Todd
2022
6.2
Countess Sylvia de Grassi
Confess, Fletch
2022
4.2
Self - Guest
Sherri
2022
7.6
Claire Gibson
Gigi & Nate
2022
6.5
Claire Lewis
Uncoupled
2022
8.0
Sally Stageplay (voice)
The Cuphead Show!
2022
Credits
Renner
as Salenus (voice)
2025
4.3
Knox Goes Away
as Ruby Knox
2024
7.0
Daughter of the Bride
as Diane
2023
5.9
Tell It Like a Woman
as Dr. Partovi
2022
4.2
So Help Me Todd
as Margaret
2022
7.4
Confess, Fletch
as Countess Sylvia de Grassi
2022
6.2
Sherri
as Self - Guest
2022
4.2
Gigi & Nate
as Claire Gibson
2022
7.6
Uncoupled
as Claire Lewis
2022
6.5
The Cuphead Show!
as Sally Stageplay (voice)
2022
8.0
Money, Explained
as Self - Narrator
2021
7.3
Moxie
as Principal Shelly
2021
7.3
Pink Skies Ahead
as Pamela
2020
5.7
Barkskins
as Mathilde Geffard
2020
6.4
Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone
as Self
2020
10.0
The Morning Show
as Maggie Brener
2019
7.8
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
6.4
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
6.4
Tamron Hall
as Self - Guest
2019
5.1
Point Blank
as Lieutenant Lewis
2019
6.0
Reef Break
as Betty Ann Miller
2019
7.0
RuPaul
as Self
2019
4.8
The Cold Open
2019
7.5
Love You to Death
as Camile
2019
7.6
The Oil Fund
as USA Ambassadør
2018
7.0
A Million Little Things
as Alice Mendez
2018
7.4
Fifty Shades Freed
as Grace Grey
2018
6.7
Fifty Shades Darker
as Grace Trevelyan Grey
2017
6.5
Get a Job
as Katherine Dunn
2016
5.3
Code Black
as Dr. Leanne Rorish
2015
7.7
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
6.3
After Words
as Jane Taylor
2015
5.5
Unity
as Narrator (voice)
2015
7.5
Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant
as President of the FAFAFA
2015
4.7
Grandma
as Judy
2015
6.5
Fifty Shades of Grey
as Dr. Grey
2015
5.9
You're Not You
as Elizabeth
2014
7.4
How to Get Away with Murder
as Hannah Keating
2014
7.8
BoJack Horseman
as Denise (voice)
2014
8.5
BoJack Horseman
as Denise / McCaitlyn (voice)
2014
8.5
Magic in the Moonlight
as Mrs. Baker
2014
6.5
Elsa & Fred
as Lydia
2014
6.0
Parkland
as Doris Nelson
2013
6.2
Trophy Wife
as Dr. Diane Buckley
2013
6.3
The Wine of Summer
as Shelley
2013
5.9
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
as Self
2013
6.0
If I Were You
as Madelyn
2013
6.7
The Newsroom
as Rebecca Halliday
2012
8.1
Bent
as Vanessa Carter
2012
6.5
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
as Marjorie Dunfour
2012
5.6
Innocent
as Barbara Sabich
2011
5.6
Detachment
as Principal Carol Dearden
2011
7.6
Body of Proof
as Sheila Temple
2011
7.0
Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy
as Edda Mellas
2011
6.0
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
Royal Pains
as Dr. Elizabeth Blair
2009
6.7
The Maiden Heist
as Rose Barlow
2009
5.6
Home
as Inga
2009
5.2
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
as Janina Krzyżanowska
2009
7.2
Whip It
as Brooke Cavendar
2009
6.7
Sex and Lies in Sin City
as Becky Binion
2008
3.4
Christmas Cottage
as Maryanne Kinkade
2008
6.3
When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'
as Self
2008
8.2
🎬
The Tower
as Zoe Cafritz
2008
0.0
Fog City Mavericks
as Self
2007
8.5
Into the Wild
as Billie McCandless
2007
7.8
Rails & Ties
as Megan Stark
2007
6.4
Damages
as Claire Maddox
2007
7.5
The Invisible
as Diane Powell
2007
6.3
The Mist
as Mrs. Carmody
2007
6.9
Canvas
as Mary Marino
2006
6.5
The Dead Girl
as Melora
2006
6.0
The Hoax
as Edith Irving
2006
6.3
In from the Night
as Vicki Miller
2006
6.7
American Dreamz
as First Lady
2006
5.0
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
as Self
2006
2.0
🎬
Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater
as Narrator
2006
0.0
Felicity: An American Girl Adventure
as Mrs. Martha Merriman
2005
6.6
American Gun
as Janet Huttenson
2005
5.7
🎬
Willa Cather: The Road Is All
as Voice of Willa Cather
2005
0.0
A Concert for Hurricane Relief
as Self - Presenter
2005
0.0
Bad News Bears
as Liz Whitewood
2005
5.8
P.S.
as Missy Goldberg
2004
5.6
See You in My Dreams
as Angela Brown
2004
0.0
Welcome to Mooseport
as Grace Sutherland
2004
5.1
She's Too Young
as Trish Vogul
2004
5.8
Mona Lisa Smile
as Nancy Abbey
2003
6.9
Mystic River
as Celeste Boyle
2003
7.7
Casa de los Babys
as Nan
2003
5.5
King of Texas
as Mrs. Susannah Lear Tumlinson
2002
5.0
Guilty Hearts
as Jenny Moran
2002
4.3
The Education of Max Bickford
as Andrea Haskell
2001
1.0
Walking Shadow
as Susan Silverman
2001
3.5
Gaudi Afternoon
as Frankie
2001
5.0
Thin Air
as Susan Silverman
2000
5.0
Pollock
as Lee Krasner
2000
6.7
Space Cowboys
as Sara Holland
2000
6.4
🎬
From Where I Sit
as Sharon
2000
0.0
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Dana Lewis
1999
7.9
Small Vices
as Susan Silverman
1999
1.0
Curtain Call
as Michelle Tippet
1998
5.0
Meet Joe Black
as Allison
1998
7.4
Labor of Love
as Annie Pines
1998
0.0
Desperate Measures
as Dr. Samantha Hawkins
1998
6.0
Flubber
as Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds
1997
5.7
The View
as Self
1997
4.5
The View
1997
4.5
Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing
as Nancy Floyd
1997
6.0
The Daytrippers
as Libby
1997
6.5
Far Harbor
as Arabella
1996
3.8
The First Wives Club
as Dr. Leslie Rosen
1996
6.7
The Spitfire Grill
as Shelby Goddard
1996
6.5
Spy Hard
as Miss Cheevus
1996
5.4
Convict Cowboy
as Maggie Sinclair
1995
6.1
Talking With
as Laurie (segment "Clear Glass Marbles")
1995
0.0
Safe Passage
as Cynthia
1994
6.0
Chicago Hope
1994
7.2
Fallen Angels
as Marie
1993
5.9
In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway
1993
0.0
🎬
Geoffrey Beene 30
1993
0.0
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
8.1
Used People
as Norma
1992
5.5
Sinatra
as Ava Gardner
1992
7.9
Crush
as Lane
1992
5.8
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
5.4
Late for Dinner
as Joy Husband
1991
5.6
Fever
as Lacy
1991
3.8
In Broad Daylight
as Adina Rowan
1991
5.7
Miller's Crossing
as Verna
1990
7.5
Kojak: None So Blind
as Angelina
1990
6.0
Gideon Oliver
as Lila
1989
5.5
Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
as Marcia Connelly
1988
8.5
Simon & Simon
1981
6.7
Not Only Strangers
as Jennie
1979
0.0
Great Performances
as Self
1971
5.3
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Vicki Miller
1951
8.6
🎬
The Dreadful
as Morwen
N/A
0.0
🎬
Street Smart
N/A
0.0
🎬
Drift
N/A
0.0