Marcia Gay Harden
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| Born | August 14, 1959 La Jolla, California, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1979 – present | ||||||
| Spouse(s) | Thaddaeus Scheel | ||||||
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Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an Academy Award-winning American actress.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Harden, one of five children, was born in La Jolla, California, the daughter of Beverly (née Bushfield), a housewife, and Thaddeus Harold Harden, a Texas native who was an officer in the Navy.[1] One of her siblings is also named Thaddeus. 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 1976, the University of Texas at Austin with a BA in theatre, and the graduate theatre program at New York University with a Master of Fine Arts.
[edit] Career
Harden debuted on Broadway in Tony Kushner's Angels in America in 1993. For her film work, she won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Pollock (2000), and was nominated in the same category for Mystic River (2003).
Other notable films include The Imagemaker (1986), her first screen role, in which she played a stage manager; the Coen Brothers' Miller's Crossing (1990), a 1930s mobster drama in which she gained her first wide exposure; the Disney sci-fi comedy Flubber (1997), a popular hit in which she co-starred with Robin Williams; the supernatural drama Meet Joe Black (1998); Labor of Love (1998), a Lifetime Television movie in which she starred with David Marshall Grant; and an all-star adventure-drama of aging astronauts, Space Cowboys (2000).
She also guest-starred as an FBI undercover agent (named Dana Lewis; undercover alias Star Morrison) posing as a white-supremacist in "Raw", an episode of the popular crime drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit for which she has been nominated for Best Guest Actress in a Drama Series. She recently reprised the role in the series' eighth season premiere.
In 2007, Harden appeared in several films, including Sean Penn's critically acclaimed Into the Wild. She recently completed filming on "Home," in which her co-stars include her daughter, Eulala Scheel, and the comedy The Lonely Maiden with Christopher Walken and Morgan Freeman.
[edit] Personal life
Her nephew and niece, Sander and Audrey Harden, died in Queens, New York of severe burns from a house fire, along with her former-sister-in-law, Rebecca.[3] Harden is married to Thaddaeus Scheel, with whom she worked on The Spitfire Grill (1996), and the couple have three children: a daughter, Eulala Grace Scheel, and twins Julitta Dee Scheel and Hudson Harden Scheel. The family lives in Harlem, New York.
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Other notes |
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| 1979 | Not Only Strangers | ||
| 1986 | The Imagemaker | Stage Manager | |
| 1990 | Miller's Crossing | Verna Bernbaum | |
| 1991 | Fever | Lacy | (TV) |
| Late for Dinner | Joy Husband | ||
| 1992 | Crush | Lane | |
| Sinatra | Ava Gardner | TV | |
| Used People | Norma | ||
| 1993 | Geoffrey Beene 30 | Woman | |
| 1994 | Safe Passage | Cynthia | |
| 1996 | The Spitfire Grill | Shelby Goddard | |
| The Daytrippers | Libby | ||
| The First Wives Club | Dr. Leslie Rosen | ||
| Far Harbor | Arabella | ||
| Spy Hard | Miss Cheevus | ||
| 1997 | Flubber | Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds | |
| 1998 | Desperate Measures | Dr. Samantha Hawkins | |
| Meet Joe Black | Allison Parrish | ||
| 1999 | Curtain Call | Michelle Tippet | |
| 2000 | Space Cowboys | Sara Holland | |
| Pollock | Lee Krasner | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated - Independent Spirit Award |
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| 2001 | Gaudi Afternoon | Frankie Stevens | |
| 2003 | Mystic River | Celeste Boyle | Nominated - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| Just Like Mona | |||
| Casa de los babys | Nan | ||
| Mona Lisa Smile | Nancy Abbey | ||
| 2004 | Welcome to Mooseport | Grace Sutherland | |
| P.S. | Missy Goldberg | ||
| 2005 | Bad News Bears | Liz Whitewood | |
| American Gun | Janet Huttenson | Nominated - Independent Spirit Award | |
| 2006 | American Dreamz | First Lady | |
| The Dead Girl | Melora | ||
| The Hoax | Edith Irving | ||
| Canvas | Mary Marino | ||
| 2007 | The Invisible | Diane Powell | |
| The Mist | Mrs. Carmody | ||
| Into the Wild | Billie McCandless | ||
| Rails & Ties | Megan Stark | ||
| 2008 | Thomas Kinkade's Home for Christmas | Maryanne Kinkade | awaiting release |
| Home | Inga | post-production | |
| Noah's Ark: The New Beginning | Aamah | voice; post-production | |
| The Lonely Maiden | Rose | post-production |
[edit] References
- ^ Thad Harold Harden - Entertainment News, Obituary, Media - Variety
- ^ JewishJournal.com
- ^ Liberty Lines, Vol. 11, Issue 3, Fall 2997, p.4
[edit] External links
- Marcia Gay Harden at the Internet Movie Database
- Marcia Gay Harden at TV.com
- Marcia Gay Harden 2006 Interview on Sidewalks Entertainment
- Marcia Gay on Google images
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| Preceded by Angelina Jolie for Girl, Interrupted |
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress 2000 for Pollock |
Succeeded by Jennifer Connelly for A Beautiful Mind |
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