Marcia Gay Harden
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| Marcia Gay Harden | |
 Harden at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival |
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| Born | August 14, 1959 La Jolla, California, U.S. |
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| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1979 – present |
| Spouse(s) | Thaddaeus Scheel (1996-present) |
Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is among the most honored American actors of the 21st Century, appearing in films, television, and the theatre. Harden is a winner of the Tony Award and the Academy Award.
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[edit] Early life
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 United States Navy.[1] One of her siblings is named Thaddeus, as is her present spouse. Harden's family frequently moved because of her father's job, living in Japan, Germany, Greece, California and Maryland.[2] She graduated from Surrattsville High School in Clinton, Maryland in 1977, the University of Texas at Austin with a BA in theatre, and the graduate theatre program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a Master of Fine Arts.
[edit] Career
Harden's first film role was in a 1979 student-produced movie at the University of Texas at Austin. Throughout the 1980's, she appeared in several television programs, including Simon and Simon, Kojak, and CBS Summer Playhouse. She appeared in the the Coen Brothers' Miller's Crossing (1990), a 1930s mobster drama in which she first gained wide exposure. In 1992, she played actress Ava Gardner alongside Philip Casnoff as Frank Sinatra in the made for TV miniseries Sinatra. Throughout the 1990's, she continued to appear in films and television. Notable film roles include The Imagemaker (1986), her first screen role, in which she played a stage manager; 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 Space Cowboys (2000), an all-star adventure-drama of aging astronauts.
In 1993, Harden debuted on Broadway in the role of Harper Pitt (and others) in Tony Kushner's Angels in America. The role earned her critical acclaim and she received a Tony Award nomination (Best Featured Actress in a Play). The winner in that category was Debra Monk in Redwood Curtain.
Harden was awarded the 2001 Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of painter Lee Krasner in Pollock (2000). In 2003, she was again nominated in the same category for Mystic River.
Harden guest-starred as FBI undercover agent Dana Lewis posing as a white-supremacist in "Raw", an episode of the popular crime drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. In 2007, this role earned Harden her first Emmy Award nomination for best guest actress in a drama series. She reprised the role in the series' eighth season premiere.
In 2007, Harden appeared in several films, including Sean Penn's critically acclaimed Into the Wild, and the Frank Darabont directed "The Mist", based on the story by Stephen King. Her performance as Mrs. Carmody, the religious zealot, was highly acclaimed as one of the year's most talked-about performances. For her work in that film, she was honored with the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress of 2007. Harden has also received two nominations for the Independent Spirit Award.
In 2008, she appeared in Home, which her co-stars include her daughter, Eulala Scheel, and the comedy The Lonely Maiden with Christopher Walken and Morgan Freeman. Harden starred in the Christmas Cottage (2008), a story of the early artistic beginnings of the Painter of Light, Thomas Kinkade http://www.thechristmascottagemovie.com. In 2009, she appeared as a regular on the critically-acclaimed FX series Damages as a shrewd corporate attorney opposite Glenn Close and William Hurt.
In 2009, Harden returned to Broadway in Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage. She starred with James Gandolfini, Hope Davis and Jeff Daniels. Each lead actor was nominated for the Tony Award and on June 8th, Harden won Best Actress in a Play. .[3]
[edit] Personal life
Harden is married to Thaddaeus Scheel, with whom she worked on The Spitfire Grill (1996), and the couple have three children: a daughter, Eulala Grace Scheel, and twins Julitta Dee Scheel and Hudson Harden Scheel. The family lives in Harlem, New York. On December 15, 2003, her young nephew Sander Waring Harden and niece Audrey Gay Harden died as a result of a tragic fire in the Queens, New York, apartment, owned by her former sister-in-law Rebecca Harden who later died from injuries received in the fire. Rebecca Harden was divorced from the childrens' father, Thaddeus Harden, who is Ms. Harden's brother.
[edit] Filmography
[edit] References
- ^ Thad Harold Harden - Entertainment News, Obituary, Media - Variety
- ^ JewishJournal.com
- ^ Gandolfini Stars on Broadway in God of Carnage The Associated Press, January 12, 2009
[edit] External links
- Marcia Gay Harden at the Internet Movie Database
- Marcia Gay Harden at the Internet Broadway Database
- Marcia Gay Harden at Internet Off-Broadway Database
- Marcia Gay Harden at TV.com
- Marcia Gay Harden 2006 Interview on Sidewalks Entertainment
- Marcia Gay on Google images
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