MARCIA GAY HARDEN

'Marcia Gay Harden' (August 14, 1959–) is an Academy Award-winning American actress.

Contents

Biography

Early life

Career

Personal life

Selected filmography

Footnotes

External links

Biography

Early life

Harden, one of five children, was born in La Jolla, California to Beverly Bushfield, a housewife, and Thaddeus Harold Harden, a Texas native who was an officer in the Navy.^[1] One of her siblings is also named Thaddeus. 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 1976 and from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.A. in theatre, earning an MFA from the graduate theatre program of New York University.

Career

Harden debuted on Broadway in Tony Kushner's ''Angels in America'' in 1993. For her film work, she won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for ''Pollock'' (2000), and was nominated in the same category for ''Mystic River'' (2003). She is currently shooting a film called ''Home,'' in which she will be playing the role of a mother (to her real daughter, Eulala Scheel) as she did in '' (2005).
Other notable films include ''The Imagemaker'' (1986), her first screen role, in which she played a stage manager; the Coen Brothers' ''Miller's Crossing'' (1990), a 1930s mobster drama in which she gained her first wide exposure; 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 an all-star adventure-drama of aging astronauts, ''Space Cowboys'' (2000). She also guest-starred as a FBI undercover agent posing as a white-supremacist in "Raw", an episode of the popular crime drama '' for which she has been nominated for Best Guest Actress in a Drama Series. She recently reprised this role in the series' eighth season premiere. Harden has five films set to be released in 2007. Harden is also rumored to play Mary Todd Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's upcoming 2009 biopic film ''Lincoln'', about Abraham Lincoln's presidency during the American Civil War.

Personal life

Her nephew and niece, Sander and Audrey Harden, died in Astoria, New York of severe burns from a house fire, along with her former-sister-in-law, Rebecca.
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.

Selected filmography

★ ''Not Only Strangers'' (1979)

★ ''The Imagemaker'' (1986)

★ ''Miller's Crossing'' (1990)

★ ''Fever'' (1991) (TV)

★ ''Crush'' (1992)

★ ''The First Wives Club'' (1996)

★ ''Far Harbor'' (1996)

★ ''Spy Hard'' (1996)

★ ''Flubber'' (1997)

★ ''Desperate Measures'' (1998)

★ ''Meet Joe Black'' (1998)

★ ''Curtain Call'' (1999)

★ ''Space Cowboys'' (2000)

★ ''Pollock'' (2000)

★ ''Gaudi Afternoon'' (2001)

★ ''Mystic River'' (2003)

★ ''Casa de los babys'' (2003)

★ ''Mona Lisa Smile'' (2003)

★ ''Welcome to Mooseport'' (2004)

★ ''P.S.'' (2004)

★ ''Bad News Bears'' (2005)

★ ''American Gun'' (2005)

★ ''American Dreamz'' (2006)

★ ''The Hoax'' (2006)

★ ''The Dead Girl'' (2006)

★ ''The Invisible'' (2007)

★ ''The Mist'' (2007)

★ ''Into The Wild'' (2007)

★ ''Rails & Ties'' (2007)

★ ''The Christmas Cottage'' (2007)

★ ''Home (2007 film)'' (2007)

★ ''Lincoln'' (2009) (rumored)

Footnotes

1. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117861675.html?categoryid=25&cs=1
2. http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=6474

External links

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★ Marcia Gay Harden 2006 Interview on ''Sidewalks Entertainment''