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Marcia Gay Harden

Actor, Producer
Born August 14, 1959 (64 years)
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.
Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Detachment
  • Get a Job
  • Parkland
  • The Dead Girl
  • The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
  • She's Too Young
  • Used People
  • Gaudi Afternoon
  • After Words
  • Tell It Like a Woman
  • Innocent
  • The Wine of Summer
  • In from the Night
Known For
  • Into the Wild
  • The Mist
  • Mystic River
  • Miller's Crossing
  • Meet Joe Black
  • Fifty Shades of Grey
  • Flubber
  • Whip It
  • Pollock
  • Magic in the Moonlight
  • Space Cowboys
  • Code Black
  • Detachment
  • The Invisible
  • Mona Lisa Smile
  • Spy Hard
  • Parkland
  • So Help Me Todd
  • Bad News Bears
  • Fifty Shades Freed
  • The Hoax
  • Grandma
  • Point Blank
  • The Morning Show

Filmography

2023
Knox Goes Away · as Ruby Knox
2023
2022
2022
So Help Me Todd (TV Series) · as Margaret
2022
Confess, Fletch · as Countess Sylvia De Grassi
2022
Gigi & Nate · as Claire Gibson
2022
Uncoupled (TV Series) · as Claire Lewis
2022
The Cuphead Show! (TV Series) · as Sally Stageplay (voice)
2021
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy (TV Series) · as Cast
2021
Moxie · as Principal Shelly
2020
Pink Skies Ahead · as Pamela
2020
Barkskins (TV Series) · as Mathilde Geffard
2019
The Morning Show (TV Series) · as Maggie Brener
2019
Point Blank · as Lieutenant Lewis
2019
Reef Break (TV Series) · as Betty Ann Miller
2019
Love You To Death · as Camile
2018
A Million Little Things (TV Series) · as Alice Mendez
2018
Fifty Shades Freed · as Grace Grey
2018
The Oil Fund (TV Series) · as Usa Ambassadør
2017
Fifty Shades Darker · as Grace Trevelyan Grey
2016
Get a Job · as Katherine Dunn
2015
Code Black (TV Series) · as Dr. Leanne Rorish
2015
Grandma · as Judy
2015
2015
2015
Unity · as Narrator (voice)
2015
Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant · as President Of The Fafafa
2015
Fifty Shades of Grey · as Dr. Grey
2014
You're Not You · as Elizabeth
2014
Elsa & Fred · as Lydia
2014
How to Get Away with Murder (TV Series) · as Hannah Keating
2014
BoJack Horseman (TV Series) · as Denise (voice)
2014
Magic in the Moonlight · as Mrs. Baker
2013
2013
Parkland · as Doris Nelson
2013
Trophy Wife (TV Series) · as Dr. Diane Buckley
2012
If I Were You · as Madelyn
2012
The Newsroom (2012) (TV Series) · as Rebecca Halliday
2012
Tron: Uprising (TV Series) · as Keller
2012
Bent (TV Series) · as Vanessa Carter
2012
Noah · as Aamah
2011
2011
Detachment · as Principal Carol Dearden
2011
Innocent · as Barbara Sabich
2011
Amanda Knox · as Edda Mellas
2011
Body of Proof (TV Series) · as Sheila Temple
2011
Smothered · as Fran
2010
A Cat in Paris · as Jeanne
2009
The Maiden Heist · as Rose Barlow
2009
Whip It · as Brooke Cavendar
2009
Royal Pains (TV Series) · as Dr. Elizabeth Blair
2009
2008
Home · as Inga
2008
Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage · as Maryanne Kinkade
2008
Sex and Lies in Sin City · as Becky Binion
2007
Rails & Ties · as Megan Stark
2007
Into the Wild · as Billie Mccandless
2007
Damages (TV Series) · as Claire Maddox
2007
The Mist · as Mrs. Carmody
2007
The Invisible · as Diane Powell
2006
Canvas · as Mary Marino
2006
2006
The Hoax · as Edith Irving
2006
In from the Night · as Vicki Miller
2006
American Dreamz · as First Lady
2006
Drift · as Cheryl
2005
American Gun · as Janet Huttenson
2005
Felicity: An American Girl Adventure · as Mrs. Martha Merriman
2005
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
2003
Mona Lisa Smile · as Nancy Abbey
2003
Mystic River · as Celeste Boyle
2003
Just Like Mona · as Cast
2002
King of Texas · as Mrs. Susannah Lear Tumlinson
2002
Guilty Hearts · as Jenny Moran
2001
The Education of Max Bickford (TV Series) · as Andrea Haskell
2001
Walking Shadow · as Susan Silverman
2001
2000
Pollock · as Lee Krasner
2000
Thin Air · as Susan Silverman
2000
Space Cowboys · as Sara Holland
2000
From Where I Sit · as Sharon
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series) · as Dana Lewis
1999
Spenser: Small Vices · as Susan Silverman
1998
It All Came True · as Michelle Tippet
1998
Meet Joe Black · as Allison Parrish
1998
Labor of Love · as Annie Pines
1998
Desperate Measures · as Dr. Samantha Hawkins
1997
Flubber · as Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds
1997
1996
The Daytrippers · as Libby
1996
Far Harbor · as Arabella
1996
The First Wives Club · as Dr. Leslie Rosen
1996
Spy Hard · as Miss Cheevus
1996
The Spitfire Grill · as Shelby Goddard
1995
Convict Cowboy · as Maggie Sinclair
1994
Safe Passage · as Cynthia
1994
Chicago Hope (TV Series)
1993
Fallen Angels (TV Series) · as Marie
1993
1992
1992
Crush · as Lane
1992
Sinatra (TV Series) · as Ava Gardner
1992
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
Gideon Oliver (TV Series) · as Lila
1988
Superman 50th Anniversary · as Marcia Connelly
1987
CBS Summer Playhouse (TV Series) · as Kim
1986
The Imagemaker · as Stage Manager
1985
American Masters (TV Series) · as Willa Cather
1981
Simon & Simon (TV Series)
1951
Hallmark Hall Of Fame (TV Series) · as Vicki Miller
Drift (TV Series)

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