
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
Credits
- 2024 · Knox Goes Away as Ruby Knox
- 2022 · So Help Me Todd as Margaret
- 2022 · Confess, Fletch as Countess Sylvia de Grassi
- 2022 · Sherri as Self - Guest
- 2022 · Uncoupled as Claire Lewis
- 2022 · The Cuphead Show! as Sally Stageplay (voice)
- 2021 · Moxie as Principal Shelly
- 2020 · Pink Skies Ahead as Pamela
- 2019 · The Morning Show as Maggie Brener
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
- 2019 · Tamron Hall as Self - Guest
- 2019 · Point Blank as Lieutenant Lewis
- 2018 · A Million Little Things as Alice Mendez
- 2018 · In the Night I Remember Your Name as Pastor Joyce Speegle (voice)
- 2018 · Fifty Shades Freed as Grace Grey
- 2017 · Fifty Shades Darker as Grace Trevelyan Grey
- 2015 · Code Black as Dr. Leanne Rorish
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as
- 2015 · After Words as Jane Taylor
- 2015 · Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant as President of the FAFAFA
- 2015 · Grandma as Judy
- 2015 · Fifty Shades of Grey as Dr. Grey
- 2014 · You're Not You as Elizabeth
- 2014 · How to Get Away with Murder as Hannah Keating
- 2014 · BoJack Horseman as Denise (voice)
- 2014 · BoJack Horseman as Denise / McCaitlyn (voice)
- 2014 · Magic in the Moonlight as Mrs. Baker
- 2014 · Elsa & Fred as Lydia
- 2013 · Parkland as Doris Nelson
- 2013 · Trophy Wife as Dr. Diane Buckley
- 2013 · The Wine of Summer as Shelley
- 2013 · Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story as Self
- 2012 · The Newsroom as Rebecca Halliday
- 2011 · Detachment as Principal Carol Dearden
- 2011 · Body of Proof as Sheila Temple
- 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- 2009 · Royal Pains as Dr. Elizabeth Blair
- 2009 · Whip It as Brooke Cavendar
- 2008 · Christmas Cottage as Maryanne Kinkade
- 2007 · The Mist as Mrs. Carmody
- 2007 · Into the Wild as Billie McCandless
- 2007 · Damages as Claire Maddox
- 2007 · The Invisible as Diane Powell
- 2006 · Canvas as Mary Marino
- 2006 · The Dead Girl as Melora
- 2006 · American Dreamz as First Lady
- 2005 · Felicity: An American Girl Adventure as Mrs. Martha Merriman
- 2005 · American Gun as Janet Huttenson
- 2005 · Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast as Self - Presenter
- 2005 · Bad News Bears as Liz Whitewood
- 2003 · Mona Lisa Smile as Nancy Abbey
- 2003 · Mystic River as Celeste Boyle
- 2003 · Casa de los Babys as Nan
- 2000 · Pollock as Lee Krasner
- 2000 · Space Cowboys as Sara Holland
- 1999 · Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Dana Lewis
- 1998 · Meet Joe Black as Allison
- 1998 · Desperate Measures as Dr. Samantha Hawkins
- 1997 · Flubber as Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1996 · The First Wives Club as Dr. Leslie Rosen
- 1996 · Spy Hard as Miss Cheevus
- 1994 · Chicago Hope as
- 1993 · Fallen Angels as Marie
- 1993 · Homicide: Life on the Street as
- 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as
- 1990 · Miller's Crossing as Verna
- 1981 · Simon & Simon as
- 1971 · Great Performances as Self
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- Future · The Dreadful as Morwen
- 2025 · Renner as Salenus (voice)
- 2022 · Tell It Like a Woman as Dr. Partovi
- 2022 · Gigi & Nate as Claire Gibson
- 2021 · Money, Explained as Self - Narrator
- 2020 · Barkskins as Mathilde Geffard
- 2020 · Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone as Self
- 2019 · Reef Break as Betty Ann Miller
- 2019 · RuPaul as Self
- 2019 · The Cold Open as
- 2019 · Love You to Death as Camile Stoller
- 2016 · Get a Job as Katherine Dunn
- 2015 · Unity as Narrator (voice)
- 2012 · Bent as Vanessa Carter
- 2009 · The Maiden Heist as Rose Barlow
- 2008 · The Tower as Zoe Cafritz
- 2007 · Rails & Ties as Megan Stark
- 2006 · Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner as Self
- 2004 · P.S. as Missy Goldberg
- 2002 · King of Texas as Mrs. Susannah Lear Tumlinson
- 2002 · Guilty Hearts as Jenny Moran
- 2001 · The Education of Max Bickford as Andrea Haskell
- 2000 · Thin Air as Susan Silverman
- 1999 · Small Vices as Susan Silverman
- 1998 · Curtain Call as Michelle Tippet
- 1998 · Labor of Love as Annie Pines
- 1997 · The Daytrippers as Libby
- 1996 · The Spitfire Grill as Shelby Goddard
- 1995 · Convict Cowboy as Maggie Sinclair
- 1994 · Safe Passage as Cynthia
- 1992 · Crush as Lane
- 1991 · Late for Dinner as Joy Husband
- 1991 · Fever as Lacy
- Future · Street Smart as Dr. Partovi
- 2026 · TRINITY as Margaret Vandenburg
- 2023 · Daughter of the Bride as Diane
- 2018 · The Oil Fund as USA Ambassadør
- 2013 · If I Were You as Madelyn
- 2012 · Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You as Marjorie Dunfour
- 2011 · Innocent as Barbara Sabich
- 2011 · Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy as Edda Mellas
- 2009 · Home as Inga
- 2009 · The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler as Janina Krzyżanowska
- 2008 · Sex and Lies in Sin City as Becky Binion
- 2008 · When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist' as Self
- 2007 · Fog City Mavericks as Self
- 2006 · The Hoax as Edith Irving
- 2006 · In from the Night as Vicki Miller
- 2006 · Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater as Narrator
- 2005 · Willa Cather: The Road Is All as Voice of Willa Cather
- 2004 · See You in My Dreams as Angela Brown
- 2004 · Mystic River: Beneath the Surface as Self
- 2004 · Welcome to Mooseport as Grace Sutherland
- 2004 · She's Too Young as Trish Vogul
- 2003 · Mystic River: From Page to Screen as Self
- 2001 · Walking Shadow as Susan Silverman
- 2001 · Gaudi Afternoon as Frankie
- 2000 · From Where I Sit as Sharon
- 1997 · Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing as Nancy Floyd
- 1996 · Far Harbor as Arabella
- 1995 · Talking With as Laurie (segment "Clear Glass Marbles")
- 1993 · In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway as
- 1993 · Geoffrey Beene 30 as
- 1992 · Used People as Norma
- 1992 · Sinatra as Ava Gardner
- 1991 · In Broad Daylight as Adina Rowan
- 1990 · Kojak: None So Blind as Angelina
- 1989 · Gideon Oliver as Lila
- 1988 · Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel as Marcia Connelly
- Future · Drift as
- 1979 · Not Only Strangers as Jennie
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Vicki Miller