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Marcia Gay Harden - Wikipedia. Marcia Gay Harden (born August 1. American actress. Her film breakthrough was in the 1.

Coen brothers- directed Miller's Crossing. She followed this with roles in films including Used People (1. The First Wives Club (1. Flubber (1. 99. 7). For her performance as artist Lee Krasner in the 2. Pollock, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

She earned another Academy Award nomination for her performance as Celeste Boyle in Mystic River (2. Other notable film roles include American Gun (2. The Mist and Into the Wild.

Harden made her Broadway debut in 1. Angels in America, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. She returned to Broadway in 2. Veronica in God of Carnage. Her performance won her the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Harden was nominated for her second Primetime Emmy Award for her performance in the 2.

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler. Harden's other notable television roles include Dr Leanne Rorish in the CBS medical drama Code Black and attorney Rebecca Halliday in the HBOJeff Daniels vehicle The Newsroom. Early life[edit]Harden, one of five children, was born in La Jolla, California, the daughter of Texas natives Beverly (née Bushfield), a housewife, and Thad Harold Harden (1. United States Navy.[1] One of Harden's brothers is named Thaddeus, as is her former husband. Harden's family frequently moved because of her father's job, living in Japan, Germany, Greece, California, and Maryland.[2] She graduated from Surrattsville High School in Clinton, Maryland, in 1. University of Texas at Austin with a BA in theatre, and the Graduate Acting Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a Master of Fine Arts.[3]Harden's first film role was in a 1. University of Texas.

Throughout the 1. Simon & Simon, Kojak, and CBS Summer Playhouse. She appeared in The Imagemaker (1. She appeared in the Coen brothers' Miller's Crossing (1.

Even so, at the time, living in New York City, she had to go back to doing catering jobs "because I didn't have any money".[4]In 1. Harden played actress Ava Gardner alongside Philip Casnoff as Frank Sinatra in the made for TV miniseries Sinatra. Throughout the 1. Notable film roles include the Disneysci- ficomedy. Flubber (1. 99. 7), a popular hit in which she co- starred with Robin Williams; the supernaturaldrama. Meet Joe Black (1.

Anthony Hopkins, co- starring Brad Pitt); Labor of Love (1. Lifetime television movie in which she starred with David Marshall Grant; and Space Cowboys (2. In 1. 99. 3, Harden debuted on Broadway in the role of Harper Pitt (and others) in Tony Kushner's Angels in America. The role earned her critical acclaim, and she received a Tony Award nomination (Best Featured Actress in a Play). The winner in that category was Debra Monk in Redwood Curtain.

Harden was awarded the 2. Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of painter Lee Krasner in Pollock (2. In 2. 00. 3, she was again nominated in the same category for Mystic River. Harden guest- starred as FBI undercover agent Dana Lewis posing as a white- supremacist in "Raw", an episode of the popular crime drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. In 2. 00. 7, this role earned Harden her first Emmy Award nomination for best guest actress in a drama series. She reprised the role in the series' eighth- season premiere and again in the twelfth- season episode "Penetration" as a rape victim (aired November 1.

In 2. 00. 7, Harden appeared in several films, including Sean Penn's critically acclaimed Into the Wild and Frank Darabont's The Mist (opposite Thomas Jane and Laurie Holden), based on the novella by Stephen King. Also in 2. 00. 7, she shared top billing with Kevin Bacon in Rails & Ties, the directorial debut of Alison Eastwood. In 2. 00. 8, Harden appeared in Home playing a woman who has had a mastectomy.

Her character in Rails & Ties also had a mastectomy.) One central scene called for her to bare her breasts, with the missing breast "removed" using computer- generated imagery. In Home, her co- stars include her daughter, Eulala Scheel. Harden starred in the Christmas Cottage, a story of the early artistic beginnings of the Painter of Light, Thomas Kinkade. In 2. 00. 9, she appeared as a regular on the critically acclaimed FX series Damages as a shrewd corporate attorney opposite Glenn Close and William Hurt. Harden received a 2.

Emmy nomination for her role in The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler, a TV film also starring Oscar- winner Anna Paquin. She was a Best Supporting Actress in a TV Movie/Miniseries nominee and lost to Shohreh Aghdashloo. If she had won this Emmy, Harden would have entered the elite group of "triple- crown" actors; those who have won the profession's three highest honors: the Academy Award (film), the Tony Award (stage), and the Emmy Award (television). In 2. 00. 9, Harden co- starred with Ellen Page and Drew Barrymore in Whip It, which proved a critical success.[5] Harden also played in the comedy The Maiden Heist (2.

Christopher Walken and Morgan Freeman. It was also in this year that Harden returned to Broadway in Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage, where she co- starred with James Gandolfini, Hope Davis, and Jeff Daniels. All three actors were nominated for the Tony Award, and on June 8, Harden won Best Actress in a Play.[6]In 2. Harden reunited with her former Broadway co- star Jeff Daniels as a new cast member on HBO's series The Newsroom.[4] In 2. Fifty Shades film series.

Also that year, she began a starring role in the TV series Code Black. Harden's films have grossed over $2 billion dollars worldwide.[7]Personal life[edit]Harden married Thaddaeus Scheel, a prop master,[4] whom she worked with on The Spitfire Grill in 1. Watch Jarhead 2: Field Of Fire Streaming. Harden and Scheel have three children: a daughter, Eulala Grace Scheel (September 1. Julitta Dee Scheel and Hudson Scheel Harden (April 2.

In February 2. 01. Harden filed for divorce from Scheel.[9]On December 1. Sander Waring Harden and niece Audrey Gay Harden died along with their mother, Rebecca Harden, as a result of a fire in their Queens, New York, apartment. Rebecca Harden was, at the time, divorced from Marcia Gay's brother, the children's father, Thaddeus Harden.[1. On May 2. 2, 2. 01. Harden delivered the 1.

Spring Commencement Address at her alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin.[1. She had previously spoken at graduation ceremonies for UT's College of Fine Arts in 2.