MARCIA GAY HARDEN
Name: Marcia Gay Harden
Born: 14 August 1959 La Jolla, California, U.S.
Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an Academy Award-winning American
actress.
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. 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. 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.
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). She is currently
shooting a film called Home, in which she will be playing the role of a mother (to
her real daughter, Eulala Scheel) as she did in Felicity: An American Girl
Adventure (2005). Harden also recently completed filming on The Lonely Maiden, a
comedy that co-stars Morgan Freeman and Christopher Walken.
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 six films: The Invisible,
The Mist, Rails & Ties, Thomas Kinkade's Home for Christmas, Home and the
critically acclaimed Into the Wild.
Name: Marcia Gay Harden
Born: 14 August 1959 La Jolla, California, U.S.
Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an Academy Award-winning American
actress.
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. 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. 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.
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). She is currently
shooting a film called Home, in which she will be playing the role of a mother (to
her real daughter, Eulala Scheel) as she did in Felicity: An American Girl
Adventure (2005). Harden also recently completed filming on The Lonely Maiden, a
comedy that co-stars Morgan Freeman and Christopher Walken.
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 six films: The Invisible,
The Mist, Rails & Ties, Thomas Kinkade's Home for Christmas, Home and the
critically acclaimed Into the Wild.