Marcia Gay Harden
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1959-08-14 (65 years old)
Place of Birth
La Jolla, California, USA
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
Acting
The Dreadful
as Morwen
(2025)
Renner
as Salenus (voice)
(2024)
Knox Goes Away
as Ruby Knox
(2023)
Daughter of the Bride
as Diane
(2022)
Gigi & Nate
as Claire Gibson
(2022)
Confess, Fletch
as Countess Sylvia de Grassi
(2022)
Tell It Like a Woman
as Dr. Partovi
(2021)
Moxie
as Principal Shelly
(2020)
Pink Skies Ahead
as Pamela
(2020)
(2019)
Point Blank
as Lieutenant Lewis
(2019)
Love You to Death
as Camile
(2019)
(2018)
Fifty Shades Freed
as Grace Grey
(2017)
Fifty Shades Darker
as Grace Trevelyan Grey
(2016)
Get a Job
as Katherine Dunn
(2015)
Fifty Shades of Grey
as Dr. Grey
(2015)
Grandma
as Judy
(2015)
Unity
as Narrator (voice)
(2015)
Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant
as President of the FAFAFA
(2015)
After Words
as Jane Taylor
(2014)
Magic in the Moonlight
as Mrs. Baker
(2014)
Elsa & Fred
as Lydia
(2014)
You're Not You
as Elizabeth
(2013)
Parkland
as Doris Nelson
(2013)
(2013)
The Wine of Summer
as Shelley
(2013)
If I Were You
as Madelyn
(2012)
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
as Marjorie Dunfour
(2011)
Detachment
as Principal Carol Dearden
(2011)
Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy
as Edda Mellas
(2011)
Innocent
as Barbara Sabich
(2009)
Whip It
as Brooke Cavendar
(2009)
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
as Janina Krzyżanowska
(2009)
The Maiden Heist
as Rose Barlow
(2009)
Home
as Inga
(2008)
Christmas Cottage
as Maryanne Kinkade
(2008)
Sex and Lies in Sin City
as Becky Binion
(2008)
(2008)
The Tower
as Zoe Cafritz
(2007)
Into the Wild
as Billie McCandless
(2007)
The Mist
as Mrs. Carmody
(2007)
The Invisible
as Diane Powell
(2007)
Rails & Ties
as Megan Stark
(2007)
Fog City Mavericks
as Self
(2006)
The Hoax
as Edith Irving
(2006)
American Dreamz
as First Lady
(2006)
The Dead Girl
as Melora
(2006)
Canvas
as Mary Marino
(2006)
In from the Night
as Vicki Miller
(2006)
(2006)
(2005)
Bad News Bears
as Liz Whitewood
(2005)
American Gun
as Janet Huttenson
(2005)
A Concert for Hurricane Relief
as Self - Presenter
(2005)
Felicity: An American Girl Adventure
as Mrs. Martha Merriman
(2005)
Willa Cather: The Road Is All
as Voice of Willa Cather
(2004)
P.S.
as Missy Goldberg
(2004)
Welcome to Mooseport
as Grace Sutherland
(2004)
She's Too Young
as Trish Vogul
(2004)
See You in My Dreams
as Angela Brown
(2003)
Mystic River
as Celeste Boyle
(2003)
Mona Lisa Smile
as Nancy Abbey
(2003)
Casa de los Babys
as Nan
(2002)
King of Texas
as Mrs. Susannah Lear Tumlinson
(2002)
Guilty Hearts
as Jenny Moran
(2001)
Gaudi Afternoon
as Frankie
(2001)
Walking Shadow
as Susan Silverman
(2000)
Space Cowboys
as Sara Holland
(2000)
Pollock
as Lee Krasner
(2000)
From Where I Sit
as Sharon
(2000)
Thin Air
as Susan Silverman
(1999)
Small Vices
as Susan Silverman
(1998)
Meet Joe Black
as Allison
(1998)
Desperate Measures
as Dr. Samantha Hawkins
(1998)
Curtain Call
as Michelle Tippet
(1998)
Labor of Love
as Annie Pines
(1997)
Flubber
as Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds
(1997)
The Daytrippers
as Libby
(1997)
(1996)
The First Wives Club
as Dr. Leslie Rosen
(1996)
Spy Hard
as Miss Cheevus
(1996)
The Spitfire Grill
as Shelby Goddard
(1996)
Far Harbor
as Arabella
(1995)
Convict Cowboy
as Maggie Sinclair
(1995)
Talking With
as Laurie (segment "Clear Glass Marbles")
(1994)
Safe Passage
as Cynthia
(1993)
(1993)
(1992)
Used People
as Norma
(1992)
Crush
as Lane
(1991)
Fever
as Lacy
(1991)
Late for Dinner
as Joy Husband
(1991)
In Broad Daylight
as Adina Rowan
(1990)
Miller's Crossing
as Verna
(1990)
Kojak: None So Blind
as Angelina
(1988)
Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
as Marcia Connelly
(1979)
Crew
(2008)