Marcia Gay Harden
96 movies · 30 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 14, 1959 (age 67)
- Place of birth
- La Jolla, California, USA
- Also known as
- Marsha Gay Harden · Marcia Harden · Gay Hagen
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.
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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.
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Known for
Marcia Gay Harden: movies and TV shows
Acting (126)
- Upcoming In the Echo
as Marcia
- Upcoming
- Upcoming
- Upcoming
- 2026 Street Smart
as Dr. Partovi
- 2026
- 2026 The Dreadful
as Morwen
- 2025 Renner
as Salenus (voice)
- 2024
- 2024 Knox Goes Away
as Ruby Knox
- 2023 Daughter of the Bride
as Diane
- 2022 Tell It Like a Woman
as Dr. Partovi
- 2022
- 2022 Confess, Fletch
as Countess Sylvia de Grassi
- 2022 Gigi & Nate
as Claire Gibson
- 2022
- 2022
- 2021 Moxie
as Principal Shelly
- 2020 Pink Skies Ahead
as Pamela
- 2020
- 2019
- 2019 Point Blank
as Lieutenant Lewis
- 2019
- 2019
- 2019 Love You to Death
as Camile Stoller
- 2018
- 2018
- 2018 In the Night I Remember Your Name
as Pastor Joyce Speegle (voice)
- 2018 Fifty Shades Freed
as Grace Grey
- 2017 Fifty Shades Darker
as Grace Trevelyan Grey
- 2016 Get a Job
as Katherine Dunn
- 2015
- 2015 After Words
as Jane Taylor
- 2015 Unity
as Narrator (voice)
- 2015 Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant
as President of the FAFAFA
- 2015 Grandma
as Judy
- 2015 Fifty Shades of Grey
as Dr. Grey
- 2014 You're Not You
as Elizabeth
- 2014
- 2014
- 2014 Magic in the Moonlight
as Mrs. Baker
- 2014 Elsa & Fred
as Lydia
- 2013 Parkland
as Doris Nelson
- 2013
- 2013 The Wine of Summer
as Shelley
- 2013 If I Were You
as Madelyn
- 2012
- 2012
- 2012 Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
as Marjorie Dunfour
- 2011 Innocent
as Barbara Sabich
- 2011 Detachment
as Principal Carol Dearden
- 2011
- 2011 Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy
as Edda Mellas
- 2009 Sex and Lies in Sin City
as Becky Binion
- 2009
- 2009 The Maiden Heist
as Rose Barlow
- 2009 Home
as Inga
- 2009 The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
as Janina Krzyżanowska
- 2009 Whip It
as Brooke Cavendar
- 2008 Christmas Cottage
as Maryanne Kinkade
- 2008 The Tower
as Zoe Cafritz
- 2007 The Mist
as Mrs. Carmody
- 2007 Into the Wild
as Billie McCandless
- 2007 Rails & Ties
as Megan Stark
- 2007
- 2007 The Invisible
as Diane Powell
- 2006 Canvas
as Mary Marino
- 2006 The Dead Girl
as Melora
- 2006 The Hoax
as Edith Irving
- 2006 In from the Night
as Vicki Miller
- 2006 American Dreamz
as First Lady
- 2006
- 2005 Felicity: An American Girl Adventure
as Mrs. Martha Merriman
- 2005 American Gun
as Janet Huttenson
- 2005 Willa Cather: The Road Is All
as Voice of Willa Cather
- 2005 Bad News Bears
as Liz Whitewood
- 2004 P.S.
as Missy Goldberg
- 2004 See You in My Dreams
as Angela Brown
- 2004 Welcome to Mooseport
as Grace Sutherland
- 2004 She's Too Young
as Trish Vogul
- 2003 Mona Lisa Smile
as Nancy Abbey
- 2003 Mystic River
as Celeste Boyle
- 2003 Casa de los Babys
as Nan
- 2002 King of Texas
as Mrs. Susannah Lear Tumlinson
- 2002 Guilty Hearts
as Jenny Moran
- 2001
- 2001 Walking Shadow
as Susan Silverman
- 2001 Gaudi Afternoon
as Frankie
- 2000 Thin Air
as Susan Silverman
- 2000 Pollock
as Lee Krasner
- 2000 Space Cowboys
as Sara Holland
- 2000 From Where I Sit
as Sharon
- 1999
- 1999 Small Vices
as Susan Silverman
- 1998 Curtain Call
as Michelle Tippet
- 1998 Meet Joe Black
as Allison
- 1998 Labor of Love
as Annie Pines
- 1998 Desperate Measures
as Dr. Samantha Hawkins
- 1997 Flubber
as Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds
- 1997
- 1997 The Daytrippers
as Libby
- 1996 Far Harbor
as Arabella
- 1996 The First Wives Club
as Dr. Leslie Rosen
- 1996 The Spitfire Grill
as Shelby Goddard
- 1996 Spy Hard
as Miss Cheevus
- 1995 Convict Cowboy
as Maggie Sinclair
- 1995 Talking With
as Laurie (segment "Clear Glass Marbles")
- 1994 Safe Passage
as Cynthia
- 1994
- 1993
- 1993
- 1993
- 1993
- 1992 Used People
as Norma
- 1992
- 1992 Crush
as Lane
- 1991 Late for Dinner
as Joy Husband
- 1991 Fever
as Lacy
- 1991 In Broad Daylight
as Adina Rowan
- 1990 Miller's Crossing
as Verna
- 1990 Kojak: None So Blind
as Angelina
- 1989
- 1988 Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
as Marcia Connelly
- 1981
- 1979 Not Only Strangers
as Jennie
- 1951
Behind the camera (2)
- 2022
- 2008
Talk shows and appearances (21)
- 2025
- 2022 Sherri
1 episode
- 2021 Money, Explained
1 episode
- 2020
- 2019 The Tamron Hall Show
1 episode
- 2019 The Kelly Clarkson Show
2 episodes
- 2019 RuPaul
1 episode
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
1 episode
- 2013
- 2009 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
1 episode
- 2007
- 2006
- 2005
- 2004
- 2003
- 1997 The View
7 episodes
- 1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1 episode
- 1982 American Playhouse
1 episode
- 1975 People's Choice Awards
1 episode
- 1971 Great Performances
1 episode
- 1953 The Oscars
4 episodes