She was married to Thaddaeus Scheel, with whom she worked on The Spitfire Grill (1996), from 1996 to 2012. Harden's work often makes otherwise mediocre productions worth watching, fully inhabiting any character she portrays. Continuing to work prolifically in features and television, she earned another Oscar nomination in 2003 for her supporting role in Clint Eastwood's Mystic River (2003), Harden having earlier worked with Eastwood in 2000's Space Cowboys (2000). elokuuta 1959 La Jolla, Kalifornia) on yhdysvaltalainen Oscar-palkittu näyttelijä. Harden's performance was deeply moving and unforgettable and earned her the Oscar and New York Film Critic's Circle awards for best supporting actress. However, it was just a matter of time before Harden got a chance to truly show her quality on-screen, and that time came in 2000, with Ed Harris's Pollock (2000), in which she played Lee Krasner, artist and long-suffering wife of Jackson Pollock. Harden's road to success was a long one, her work generally being overlooked because the productions were either critically panned or ignored by audiences.
She returned to movie making in the mid-1990s, continuing to turn in superb supporting performances in films and television. It was a demanding dramatic role, and Harden won acclaim for her work, including a Tony award nomination. Harden also worked in the theater and, in 1993, was part of the Broadway cast of Tony Kushner's "Angels in America", playing Harper, the alienated wife of a closeted gay man. Harden thereafter worked steadily in supporting roles, including the portrayal of Ava Gardner in Sinatra (1992), a television biopic about Frank Sinatra. Harden received good reviews for her sultry performance as Verna, a seductive, trouble-making moll.
Harden began her college education at American universities in Europe and returned to the US to complete her studies at the University of Texas in 1983 went on to earn an MFA at NYU, and, thereafter, embarked on her acting career.Īlthough she had acted in a movie as early as 1986, in the little-known The Imagemaker (1986), her first mainstream role, coming alongside some TV movie work, was as a sultry femme fatale in the Coen Brothers' cleverly offbeat homage to the gangster movie, Miller's Crossing (1990). The family relocated often - she first became interested in the theatre when the family was living in Greece, and she had attended plays in Athens. Her mother, Beverly (Bushfield), was a homemaker, and her father, Thad Harold Harden, was in the military.
Scroll down to hear the Oscar-winning actress reminisce about some of her more memorable television stints, starting with the time she was asked to channel “the most beautiful woman in the world.Marcia Gay Harden was born on August 14, 1959, in La Jolla, California, the third of five children. In it, she plays a tough, pioneer widow named Mathilde who’s changing societal norms in the perilous wilds of New France. Harden’s latest series, the historical drama Barkskins, airs Mondays at 9/8c on Nat Geo.
She’s been an aloof-and-fabulous Trophy Wife predecessor, a take-no-bull Code Black doctor and one very surprising SVU FBI agent. She’s played a conflicted Chicago Hope patient and a couple of notable legal eagles. Alongside Academy Award and Tony winner Marcia Gay Harden, 'Code Black' boasts a panoply of recognizable faces. Since then, the in-demand actress has appeared in more than 30 TV movies and series, not to mention several feature films. “I remember climbing a step - that’s all I remember - in a short skirt on Kojak and thinking, ‘God, I hope they can’t see my panties.'” “I was playing a character, a young girl,” she tells TVLine, laughing. First TV roles can leave an indelible mark on a young actor, imprinting themselves in detail and serving as a seminal reminder of how far one has come in one’s career.Īnd then there’s 1990’s Kojak: None So Blind, a TV movie that Marcia Gay Harden … kinda recalls?