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.
146 acting credits
Acting · 146
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Margo's Got Money Troubles
2026
BoJack Horseman
2014
Fifty Shades Freed
2018
Chicago Hope
1994
The View
1997
How to Get Away with Murder
2014
Great Performances
1971
Body of Proof
2011
Fifty Shades of Grey
2015
Damages
2007
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
Sherri
2022
Simon & Simon
1981
The Morning Show
2019
A Million Little Things
2018
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Tamron Hall
2019
The Newsroom
2012
The Oscars
1953
Royal Pains
2009
People's Choice Awards
1975
The Mist
2007
Fallen Angels
1993
The Cuphead Show!
2022
Code Black
2015
So Help Me Todd
2022
Fifty Shades Darker
2017
Murder in a Small Town
2024
Meet Joe Black
1998
Parkland
2013
Into the Wild
2007
Detachment
2011
Mystic River
2003
The Dreadful
2026
The Education of Max Bickford
2001
Reef Break
2019
Gigi & Nate
2022
Trophy Wife
2013
Uncoupled
2022
Miller's Crossing
1990
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Flubber
1997
Bent
2012
Space Cowboys
2000
Spy Hard
1996
You're Not You
2014
Mona Lisa Smile
2003
Bad News Bears
2005
The First Wives Club
1996
Whip It
2009
Barkskins
2020
Confess, Fletch
2022
Unity
2015
Knox Goes Away
2024
Moxie
2021
RuPaul
2019
Gideon Oliver
1989
The Invisible
2007
Desperate Measures
1998
Grandma
2015
P.S.
2004
Magic in the Moonlight
2014
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
2009
Sinatra
1992
Money, Explained
2021
Point Blank
2019
Pollock
2000
The Dead Girl
2006
TRINITY
2026
The Maiden Heist
2009
The Hoax
2006
American Gun
2005
American Dreamz
2006
Get a Job
2016
The Daytrippers
1997
The Oil Fund
2018
Love You to Death
2019
After Words
2015
Elsa & Fred
2014
This Ordinary Thing
2025
Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant
2015
Rails & Ties
2007
Fog City Mavericks
2007
Christmas Cottage
2008
Welcome to Mooseport
2004
Safe Passage
1994
Tell It Like a Woman
2022
Used People
1992
The Spitfire Grill
1996
Curtain Call
1998
Innocent
2011
The Tower
2008
Drift
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Convict Cowboy
1995
Street Smart
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Far Harbor
1996
Fever
1994
King of Texas
2002
Pink Skies Ahead
2020
Small Vices
1999
Daughter of the Bride
2023
Felicity: An American Girl Adventure
2005
Gaudi Afternoon
2001
Walking Shadow
2001
Renner
2025
Canvas
2006
Labor of Love
1998
Crush
1992
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
2005
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
2012
Casa de los Babys
2003
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
2006
Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy
2011
Thin Air
2000
Sex and Lies in Sin City
2009
The Wine of Summer
2013
Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
1988
She's Too Young
2004
Mystic River: From Page to Screen
2003
In Broad Daylight
1991
From Where I Sit
2000
In from the Night
2006
If I Were You
2013
When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'
2008
Kojak: None So Blind
1990
Guilty Hearts
2002
Talking With
1995
Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing
1997
Late for Dinner
1991
See You in My Dreams
2004
The Cold Open
2019
Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone
2020
In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway
1993
Home
2009
Mystic River: Beneath the Surface
2004
Geoffrey Beene 30
1993
Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater
2006
Not Only Strangers
1979
Willa Cather: The Road Is All
2005
In the Echo
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In the Night I Remember Your Name
2018