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Marcia Gay Harden on Tony, Oscar and 'God of Carnage'

Los Angeles Times - Found May. 26, 2009
This is the second time that Oscar champ Marcia Gay Harden ('Pollock') has been nominated for a Tony Award.

Posted on May 26, 2009, 11:26 am

Marcia Gay Harden on Tony, Oscar and 'God of Carnage'

Gold Derby - Found May. 26, 2009
This is the second time that Oscar champ Marcia Gay Harden ('Pollock') has been nominated for a Tony Award.

Posted on May 26, 2009, 11:23 am

Marcia Gay Harden, At LOB, Gets Political

Hartford Courant - Found Apr. 15, 2009
Academy Award-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden played politics at the legislative office building in Hartford for an hour Tuesday, lending her

Posted on April 15, 2009, 6:20 am

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New York Post - Found Apr. 6, 2009
One of the biggest thrills on Broadway these days is seeing Marcia Gay Harden beat up on Tony Soprano.

Posted on April 6, 2009, 12:47 pm

Marcia Gay Harden Concocts Universal Chemistries from Her Own in ...

Village Voice - Found Apr. 29, 2009
Instead, Marcia Gay Harden elevates an otherwise modest picture as poet and recovering breast-cancer patient Inga, a doting mother who, by day...

Posted on April 29, 2009, 4:33 am

Hope Davis and Marcia Gay Harden thrill onstage in 'Carnage'

Reading Eagle - Found Apr. 21, 2009
NEW YORK - Hope Davis and Marcia Gay Harden would like to make something clear right away: They're not professional rivals in any way.

Posted on April 21, 2009, 12:25 pm

Friday Night Flix comes home

Waldo County Village Soup - Found 9 hours ago
... will continue July 24th with the 1996 award-winning drama 'The Spitfire Grill.' It stars Alison Elliott, Ellen Burstyn and Marcia Gay Harden.

Posted on July 4, 2009, 2:30 am

GANDOLFINI EJECTS THEATRE INTRUDER

PR inside - Found 22 hours ago
Tony Soprano, regained his composure before the curtain came up - as his co-stars Jeff Daniels, Marcia Gay Harden and Hope Davis looked on...
James Gandolfini throws out intruder during Broadway performance - Los Angeles Times
Gandolfini ejects theatre intruder - Daily Express
James Gandolfini throws out intruder during Broadway performance - Yahoo! India
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Posted on July 3, 2009, 1:05 pm

'Billy Elliot' wins 10 Tonys

Chicago Daily Herald - Found Jul. 1, 2009
... was named best play and picked up two other major awards, one for its director, Matthew Warchus, and the other for actress Marcia Gay Harden.

Posted on July 1, 2009, 12:41 pm

'Sharing Miracles' Television Program to Feature Legendary Rapper ...

Reuters - Found Jul. 1, 2009
Previous episodes of Sharing Miracles have featured Academy Award-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden, a breast cancer advocate;
'Sharing Miracles' Television Program to Feature Legendary Rapper ... - Houston Chronicle
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Posted on July 1, 2009, 9:34 am

Marcia Gay Harden Biography

Marcia Gay Harden
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Marcia Gay Harden

Harden at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival
Born August 14, 1959 (1959-08-14) (age 49)
La Jolla, California, U.S.
Occupation Actress
Years active 1979 – present
Spouse(s) Thaddaeus Scheel (1996-present)

Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an Academy Award and Tony Award-winning, as well as an Emmy Award-nominated American actress.

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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 also 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.

Career

In 1992 she played actress Ava Gardner alongside Philip Casnoff as Frank Sinatra in the made for TV miniseries Sinatra. Harden debuted on Broadway in Tony Kushner's Angels in America in 1993, for which she received a Tony Award nomination (Best Featured Actress in a Play) as Harper Pitt (and others). For her film work, she won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for playing painter Lee Krasner in Pollock (2000), and was nominated in the same category for Mystic River (2003).

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 Space Cowboys (2000), an all-star adventure-drama of aging astronauts.

She also guest-starred as an FBI undercover agent (named Dana Lewis; undercover alias Star Morrison) posing as a white-supremacist in "Raw", an episode of the popular crime drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award for best guest actress in a drama series. She recently 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 recently honored with the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress of 2007. She has also received two nominations for the Independent Spirit Award.

She recently completed filming on Home, in which her co-stars include her daughter, Eulala Scheel, and the comedy The Lonely Maiden with Christopher Walken and Morgan Freeman.

In 2009, she appears as a regular on the critically-acclaimed FX series Damages as a shrewd corporate attorney opposite Glenn Close and William Hurt. She has returned to the stage in 2009, appearing in Broadway's God of Carnage with James Gandolfini, Hope Davis and Jeff Daniels, and received a Tony Award on June 8th, 2009 for Best Actress in a Play for her work in God of Carnage.3 Mrs. Harden stars in the Christmas Cottage (2008), a story of the early artistic beginnings of the Painter of Light, Thomas Kinkade http://www.thechristmascottagemovie.com

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.

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes
1979 Not Only Strangers
1986 The Imagemaker Stage Manager
1990 Miller's Crossing Verna Bernbaum
1991 Fever Lacy TV
Late for Dinner Joy Husband
1992 Crush Lane
Sinatra Ava Gardner TV
Used People Norma
1993 Geoffrey Beene 30 Woman
1994 Safe Passage Cynthia
1996 The Spitfire Grill Shelby Goddard
The Daytrippers Libby
The First Wives Club Dr. Leslie Rosen National Board of Review Award for Best Cast
Far Harbor Arabella
Spy Hard Miss Cheevus
1997 Flubber Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds
1998 Desperate Measures Dr. Samantha Hawkins
Meet Joe Black Allison Parrish
Labor of Love Annie Pines TV
1999 Curtain Call Michelle Tippet
2000 Space Cowboys Sara Holland
Pollock Lee Krasner Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated - Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female
2001 Gaudi Afternoon Frankie Stevens
2003 Mystic River Celeste Boyle Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cast
Seattle Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated - Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated - Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated - Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture Drama
Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Cast - Motion Picture
Just Like Mona
Casa de los babys Nan
Mona Lisa Smile Nancy Abbey
2004 Welcome to Mooseport Grace Sutherland
P.S. Missy Goldberg
2005 Bad News Bears Liz Whitewood
American Gun Janet Huttenson Nominated - Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female

Felicity: An American Girl Adventure Mrs. (Martha) Merriman

2006 American Dreamz First Lady
The Dead Girl Melora
The Hoax Edith Irving
Canvas Mary Marino
2007 The Invisible Diane Powell
The Mist Mrs. Carmody Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
Into the Wild Billie McCandless Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Cast - Motion Picture
Rails & Ties Megan Stark
2008 Home Inga
Thomas Kinkade's Home for Christmas Maryanne Kinkade
2009 The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler Janina Sendler premiere: 19 April
Damages Claire Maddox TV
The Maiden Heist Rose awaiting release
Noah's Ark: The New Beginning Aamah voice; post-production
Whip It! Brooke Cavendar post-production

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