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Name: Marcia Gay Harden Birth Date: August 14, 1959 Occupation: Actress
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| Welcome to The Marcia Gay Harden Picture Sites! This site truly contains only high quality scans, so you can stop searching for Marcia Gay Harden pictures from now on! For those new to the site, my philosophy on exactly what constitutes 'high quality' is found here. Be sure to check out all three picture galleries to your left. made her feature debut in "Miller's Crossing" (1990), Joel and Ethan Coen's stylish take on the gangster genre. Marcia Gay Harden scored with her sultry, husky-voiced portrayal of Verna whom she described as "a gun-toting, cigarette-smoking, poker-faced moll." One of five children born to a US Naval captain and his homemaker wife, Harden spent a peripatetic childhood, in which "I changed my identity all the time", even pretending to be a boy for a time while living in Japan. Intending to enter diplomatic service, Harden changed her plans while attending college in Greece. After a stint at the University of Maryland, she eventually graduated from the University of Texas where she was directed by Edward Dmytryk in a film school production. After some success in regional theater in Washington, DC, Harden moved to Manhattan and joined the ranks of every other struggling actress, taking waitressing jobs and auditioning without much success. It perhaps didn't help when a casting agent informed Harden that her "flaring-nostril look" would preclude her from ever being hired. Ignoring the rude comments, Harden enrolled in the graduate program at NYU. She went on to star in the short film "Florence" (1990), director Rebecca Miller's portrait of an empathetic woman who develops amnesia just like her neighbor. That same year, she made her feature debut as Verna in "Miller's Crossing", although it took a while before her career kicked into gear. In 1991's "Late for Dinner", Harden successfully portrayed a woman who ages from her twenties to her fifties and demonstrated her flair for character work that would become her hallmark. Harden offered a successful embodiment of classic Hollywood beauty Ava Gardner in the biographical miniseries "Sinatra" (CBS, 1992) and then held her own amid a bevy of Oscar-winning actresses (Shirley MacLaine, Jessica Tandy and Kathy Bates) in "Used People" (1992), as a grieving, neurotic, Hollywood-obsessed mother who reenacts celebrated performances of famous leading ladies (e.g., Audrey Hepburn, Monroe, Streisand). That same year, Harden received excellent notices for her portrayal of the erotic anti-heroine of "Crush", an unconventional road picture from New Zealand, in which she essayed a careless American who ingratiates herself into the lives and beds of a writer and his grown daughter. While carefully building her film career (which she has admitted in interviews was always her goal), Harden continued to hone her craft on stage. She headlined a 1992 Chicago production of "The Skin of Our Teeth" and acted alongside Paul McCrane and Frank Whaley in the Off-Broadway "The Years" in 1993. Later that year, she earned a Tony nomination for her portrait of a fragile Mormon wife who develops an addiction to Valium as her marriage crumbles in Tony Kushner's landmark two-part epic "Angels in America". Harden then segued to supporting Ed Harris and Beverly D'Angelo in Sam Shepard's "Simpatico", produced at NYC's The Public Theatre in 1994. Returning to the big screen, the actress earned praise as the timid wife of a local businessman who blossoms when she begins working at "The Spitfire Grill" (1996). She more than held her own opposite the manic Robin Williams in "Flubber" (1997) and managed to make the brittle daughter of a wealthy man (Anthony Hopkins) likable in "Meet Joe Black" (1998). On TV, Harden excelled as a single woman who asks her gay best friend to father her child in the soapy but entertaining "Labor of Love" (Lifetime, 1998) and then found newfound fans as Susan Silverman, the detective's love interest in a series of Spenser movies for A&E ("Small Vices" 1999; "Thin Air" 2000; "Walking Shadow" 2001). Harden lent intelligence and a sultriness to her turn as a NASA engineer romanced by over-the-hill astronaut Tommy Lee Jones in "Space Cowboys" (2000), but had one of her best screen roles yet as Lee Krasner in "Pollock" (also 2000), Ed Harris' labor-of-love biopic of the tempestuous artist. Sporting a thick Brooklyn accent and forceful screen presence, Harden perfectly matches director-star Harris' portrayal of the tortured title artist. Netting a couple of end-of-year critics' awards, Harden was the suprise winner of that year's Best Supporting Actress Academy Award. Not content to rest on her laurels, though, the actress remained busy appearing in TV projects such as "Guilty Hearts," "See You In My Dreams" and, opposite Patrick Stewart as one of the devilish daughters in TNT's Old West retelling of Shakespeare's "King Lear," "King of Texas" (all in 2002) as well as co-starring with Judy Davis in "Gaudi Afternoon," and her post-Oscar choices demonstarted a decidely maverick sensibility, co-starring in Richard Dreyfuss' short-lived series "The Education of Max Bickford" as his former student and lover turned professorial rival, and in indie writer-director John Sayles' "Casa de los Babys" (2003), where she delivered a rich and unsentimental performance as the critical, bullying Nan, one of six American women travelling to South America to adopt babies who are forced by law to live there briefly. As the Ugly American in an otherwise sympathetic ensemble, Harden digs under the abrasive surface to suggest childhood traumas that have both hardened her character and may be visited upon her offspring if she does indeed receive a child. Harden reunited with Clint Eastwood for one of the director's most accomplished and acclaimed films, "Mystic River" (2003), to play Celeste, the soul-lost wife of Dave (Tim Robbins), one of three childhood friends caught up in a murder that threatens to unravel their entire lives. Her harrowing performance was one of the film's best, and earned her a second Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress. The actress also had a well-measured role opposite Julia Roberts in "Mona Lisa Smile" (2003) as a prim instructor of deportment, grooming and table setting in the repressive 1950s environment of Wellesley College, but was less well-served by the script in the middling Ray Romano-Gene Hackman comedy "Welcome to Mooseport" (2004) as the long-suffering, overly doting aide to Hackman's former U.S. President. A supporting turn in the admired indie "P.S." (2004), playing the best friend of a woman (Laura Linney) who believes her new 20-year beau (Topher Grace) is an identical ringer--including his name--for the deceased boy she loved when she was 20. Simultaneously, she appeared in the Lifetime cable film "She's Too Young" (2004) as the mother of a teen girl facing extreme high school pressures to have sex to be popular. She then winkingly played a prissy, lawsuit-happy single mother who forces the Little League to add a team to accommodate her son and other less-than-stellar young players, only to be beguiled by the bad boy charms of their boozy coach (Billy Bob Thornton) in Richard Linklater's 2005 remake of "The Bad News Bears." > American Dreamz (2006) (completed) .... First Lady Staton
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