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.
103 movies · 41 shows
Street Smart
2026·0.0
The Dreadful
2026·6.1
This Ordinary Thing
2025·0.0
Renner
2025·5.2
Knox Goes Away
2024·7.0
Daughter of the Bride
2023·5.9
Tell It Like a Woman
2022·4.2
Confess, Fletch
2022·6.2
Gigi & Nate
2022·7.6
Moxie
2021·7.2
Pink Skies Ahead
2020·5.7
Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone
2020·10.0
Point Blank
2019·6.0
The Cold Open
2019·7.5
Love You to Death
2019·7.6
In the Night I Remember Your Name
2018·1.0
Fifty Shades Freed
2018·6.7
Fifty Shades Darker
2017·6.5
Get a Job
2016·5.3
After Words
2015·5.3
Unity
2015·7.5
Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant
2015·4.6
Grandma
2015·6.4
Fifty Shades of Grey
2015·5.9
You're Not You
2014·7.4
Magic in the Moonlight
2014·6.5
Elsa & Fred
2014·5.9
Parkland
2013·6.3
The Wine of Summer
2013·5.8
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013·6.1
If I Were You
2013·6.6
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
2012·5.5
Innocent
2011·5.7
Detachment
2011·7.6
Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy
2011·6.1
Sex and Lies in Sin City
2009·3.4
The Maiden Heist
2009·5.6
Home
2009·5.4
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
2009·7.3
Whip It
2009·6.7
Christmas Cottage
2008·6.3
When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'
2008·8.2
The Tower
2008·0.0
The Mist
2007·6.9
Fog City Mavericks
2007·8.5
Into the Wild
2007·7.8
Rails & Ties
2007·6.4
The Invisible
2007·6.4
Canvas
2006·6.3
The Dead Girl
2006·6.0
The Hoax
2006·6.3
In from the Night
2006·6.7
American Dreamz
2006·5.1
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
2006·5.0
Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater
2006·0.0
Felicity: An American Girl Adventure
2005·6.7
American Gun
2005·5.7
Willa Cather: The Road Is All
2005·10.0
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
2005·2.0
Bad News Bears
2005·5.8
P.S.
2004·5.6
See You in My Dreams
2004·8.0
Mystic River: Beneath the Surface
2004·9.5
Welcome to Mooseport
2004·5.1
She's Too Young
2004·5.8
Mona Lisa Smile
2003·6.9
Mystic River: From Page to Screen
2003·10.0
Mystic River
2003·7.7
Casa de los Babys
2003·5.5
King of Texas
2002·5.3
Guilty Hearts
2002·4.6
Walking Shadow
2001·4.7
Gaudi Afternoon
2001·4.9
Thin Air
2000·6.3
Pollock
2000·6.7
Space Cowboys
2000·6.4
From Where I Sit
2000·9.0
Small Vices
1999·3.3
Curtain Call
1998·5.1
Meet Joe Black
1998·7.4
Labor of Love
1998·8.0
Desperate Measures
1998·6.0
Flubber
1997·5.7
Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing
1997·6.3
The Daytrippers
1997·6.6
Far Harbor
1996·4.2
The First Wives Club
1996·6.7
The Spitfire Grill
1996·6.5
Spy Hard
1996·5.4
Convict Cowboy
1995·6.5
Talking With
1995·0.0
Safe Passage
1994·5.9
In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway
1993·10.0
Geoffrey Beene 30
1993·0.0
Used People
1992·5.8
Crush
1992·6.0
Late for Dinner
1991·5.7
Fever
1991·3.9
In Broad Daylight
1991·6.1
Miller's Crossing
1990·7.4
Kojak: None So Blind
1990·6.3
Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
1988·8.0
Not Only Strangers
1979·10.0