Marcia Gay Harden
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. 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 (96)
The Dreadful
2026
This Ordinary Thing
2025
Renner
2025
Knox Goes Away
2024
Daughter of the Bride
2023
Tell It Like a Woman
2022
Confess, Fletch
2022
Gigi & Nate
2022
Moxie
2021
Pink Skies Ahead
2020
Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone
2020
Point Blank
2019
The Cold Open
2019
Love You to Death
2019
In the Night I Remember Your Name
2018
Fifty Shades Freed
2018
Fifty Shades Darker
2017
Get a Job
2016
After Words
2015
Unity
2015
Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant
2015
Grandma
2015
Fifty Shades of Grey
2015
You're Not You
2014
Magic in the Moonlight
2014
Elsa & Fred
2014
Parkland
2013
The Wine of Summer
2013
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013
If I Were You
2013
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
2012
Innocent
2011
Detachment
2011
Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy
2011
Sex and Lies in Sin City
2009
The Maiden Heist
2009
Home
2009
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
2009
Whip It
2009
Christmas Cottage
2008
When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'
2008
The Mist
2007
Fog City Mavericks
2007
Into the Wild
2007
Rails & Ties
2007
The Invisible
2007
Canvas
2006
The Dead Girl
2006
The Hoax
2006
In from the Night
2006
American Dreamz
2006
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
2006
Felicity: An American Girl Adventure
2005
American Gun
2005
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
2005
Bad News Bears
2005
P.S.
2004
See You in My Dreams
2004
Welcome to Mooseport
2004
She's Too Young
2004
Mona Lisa Smile
2003
Mystic River
2003
Casa de los Babys
2003
King of Texas
2002
Guilty Hearts
2002
Walking Shadow
2001
Gaudi Afternoon
2001
Thin Air
2000
Pollock
2000
Space Cowboys
2000
Small Vices
1999
Curtain Call
1998
Meet Joe Black
1998
Labor of Love
1998
Desperate Measures
1998
Flubber
1997
Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing
1997
The Daytrippers
1997
Far Harbor
1996
The First Wives Club
1996
The Spitfire Grill
1996
Spy Hard
1996
Convict Cowboy
1995
Talking With
1995
Fever
1994
Safe Passage
1994
In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway
1993
Used People
1992
Crush
1992
Late for Dinner
1991
In Broad Daylight
1991
Miller's Crossing
1990
Kojak: None So Blind
1990
Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
1988
Not Only Strangers
1979
Street Smart
TV Shows (40)
Margo's Got Money Troubles
2026
Murder in a Small Town
2024
So Help Me Todd
2022
Sherri
2022
Uncoupled
2022
The Cuphead Show!
2022
Money, Explained
2021
Barkskins
2020
The Morning Show
2019
Tamron Hall
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Reef Break
2019
RuPaul
2019
The Oil Fund
2018
A Million Little Things
2018
Code Black
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
How to Get Away with Murder
2014
BoJack Horseman
2014
BoJack Horseman
2014
Trophy Wife
2013
The Newsroom
2012
Bent
2012
Body of Proof
2011
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Royal Pains
2009
Damages
2007
The Education of Max Bickford
2001
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
The View
1997
Chicago Hope
1994
Fallen Angels
1993
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
Sinatra
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Simon & Simon
1981
People's Choice Awards
1975
Great Performances
1971
The Oscars
1953
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951