Marcia Gay Harden

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
Most Rating	2.7276
Birthday	1959-08-14
Place of Birth	La Jolla, California, USA
Also Known As	Marsha Gay Harden, Marcia Harden, 马西娅·盖伊·哈登, Марша Гей Харден, Gay Hagen,

Meet Joe Black

Mystic River

Miller's Crossing

Spy Hard

Daughter of the Bride

The First Wives Club

Space Cowboys

The Mist

Into the Wild

Whip It

In from the Night

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

Mona Lisa Smile

The Maiden Heist

Desperate Measures

Felicity: An American Girl Adventure

American Dreamz

Flubber

The Invisible

Pollock

Bad News Bears

The Hoax

The Dead Girl

Christmas Cottage

Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel

Rails & Ties

American Gun

Crush

Casa de los Babys

Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing

Welcome to Mooseport

The Spitfire Grill

King of Texas

Curtain Call

Safe Passage

Home

Innocent

Canvas

Detachment

Late for Dinner

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy

In Broad Daylight

If I Were You

Convict Cowboy

Get a Job

Small Vices

Parkland

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

Walking Shadow

Fifty Shades of Grey

Thin Air

Magic in the Moonlight

Gaudi Afternoon

Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone

Elsa & Fred

Far Harbor

You're Not You

Confess, Fletch

Fever

See You in My Dreams

Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

Grandma

She's Too Young

Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast

Used People

Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater

Unity

Knox Goes Away

After Words

Willa Cather: The Road Is All

The Wine of Summer

The Cold Open

Fifty Shades Darker

Talking With

Fifty Shades Freed

Labor of Love

Kojak: None So Blind

Renner

Not Only Strangers