Marcia Gay Harden
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.
Acted in
Knox Goes Away
2024
as Ruby Knox
Daughter of the Bride
2023
as Diane
Tell It Like a Woman
2022
as Dr. Partovi
So Help Me Todd
2022
as Margaret
Confess, Fletch
2022
as Countess Sylvia de Grassi
Gigi & Nate
2022
as Claire Gibson
Uncoupled
2022
as Claire Lewis
The Cuphead Show!
2022
as Sally Stageplay (voice)
Money, Explained
2021
as Self - Narrator
Moxie
2021
as Principal Shelly
Pink Skies Ahead
2020
as Pamela
Barkskins
2020
as Mathilde Geffard
Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone
2020
as Self
The Morning Show
2019
as Maggie Brener
Point Blank
2019
as Lieutenant Lewis
Reef Break
2019
as Betty Ann Miller
The Cold Open
2019
Love You to Death
2019
as Camile
The Oil Fund
2018
as USA Ambassadør
A Million Little Things
2018
as Alice Mendez
Fifty Shades Freed
2018
as Grace Grey
Fifty Shades Darker
2017
as Grace Trevelyan Grey
Get a Job
2016
as Katherine Dunn
Code Black
2015
as Dr. Leanne Rorish
After Words
2015
as Jane Taylor
Unity
2015
as Narrator (voice)
Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant
2015
as President of the FAFAFA
Grandma
2015
as Judy
Fifty Shades of Grey
2015
as Dr. Grey
You're Not You
2014
as Elizabeth
How to Get Away with Murder
2014
as Hannah Keating
BoJack Horseman
2014
as Denise (voice)
Magic in the Moonlight
2014
as Mrs. Baker
Elsa & Fred
2014
as Lydia
Parkland
2013
as Doris Nelson
Trophy Wife
2013
as Dr. Diane Buckley
The Wine of Summer
2013
as Shelley
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013
as Self
If I Were You
2013
as Madelyn
The Newsroom
2012
as Rebecca Halliday
Bent
2012
as Vanessa Carter
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
2012
as Marjorie Dunfour
Innocent
2011
as Barbara Sabich
Detachment
2011
as Principal Carol Dearden
Body of Proof
2011
as Sheila Temple
Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy
2011
as Edda Mellas
The Maiden Heist
2009
as Rose Barlow
Home
2009
as Inga
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
2009
as Janina Krzyżanowska
Whip It
2009
as Brooke Cavendar
Sex and Lies in Sin City
2008
as Becky Binion
Christmas Cottage
2008
as Maryanne Kinkade
When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'
2008
as Self
The Tower
2008
as Zoe Cafritz
The Mist
2007
as Mrs. Carmody
Fog City Mavericks
2007
as Self
Into the Wild
2007
as Billie McCandless
Rails & Ties
2007
as Megan Stark
Damages
2007
as Claire Maddox
The Invisible
2007
as Diane Powell
Canvas
2006
as Mary Marino
The Dead Girl
2006
as Melora
The Hoax
2006
as Edith Irving
In from the Night
2006
as Vicki Miller
American Dreamz
2006
as First Lady
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
2006
as Self
Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater
2006
as Narrator
Felicity: An American Girl Adventure
2005
as Mrs. Martha Merriman
American Gun
2005
as Janet Huttenson
Willa Cather: The Road Is All
2005
as Voice of Willa Cather
A Concert for Hurricane Relief
2005
as Self - Presenter
Bad News Bears
2005
as Liz Whitewood
P.S.
2004
as Missy Goldberg
See You in My Dreams
2004
as Angela Brown
Welcome to Mooseport
2004
as Grace Sutherland
She's Too Young
2004
as Trish Vogul
Mona Lisa Smile
2003
as Nancy Abbey
Mystic River
2003
as Celeste Boyle
Casa de los Babys
2003
as Nan
King of Texas
2002
as Mrs. Susannah Lear Tumlinson
Guilty Hearts
2002
as Jenny Moran
The Education of Max Bickford
2001
as Andrea Haskell
Walking Shadow
2001
as Susan Silverman
Gaudi Afternoon
2001
as Frankie
Thin Air
2000
as Susan Silverman
Pollock
2000
as Lee Krasner
Space Cowboys
2000
as Sara Holland
From Where I Sit
2000
as Sharon
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Dana Lewis
Small Vices
1999
as Susan Silverman
Curtain Call
1998
as Michelle Tippet
Meet Joe Black
1998
as Allison
Labor of Love
1998
as Annie Pines
Desperate Measures
1998
as Dr. Samantha Hawkins
Flubber
1997
as Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds
Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing
1997
as Nancy Floyd
The Daytrippers
1997
as Libby
Far Harbor
1996
as Arabella
The First Wives Club
1996
as Dr. Leslie Rosen
The Spitfire Grill
1996
as Shelby Goddard
Spy Hard
1996
as Miss Cheevus
Convict Cowboy
1995
as Maggie Sinclair
Talking With
1995
Safe Passage
1994
as Cynthia
Chicago Hope
1994
Fallen Angels
1993
as Marie
In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway
1993
Geoffrey Beene 30
1993
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
Used People
1992
as Norma
Sinatra
1992
as Ava Gardner
Crush
1992
as Lane
Late for Dinner
1991
as Joy Husband
Fever
1991
as Lacy
In Broad Daylight
1991
as Adina Rowan
Miller's Crossing
1990
as Verna
Kojak: None So Blind
1990
as Angelina
Gideon Oliver
1989
as Lila
Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
1988
as Marcia Connelly
Simon & Simon
1981
Not Only Strangers
1979
Great Performances
1971
as Self
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Vicki Miller
Renner
as Salenus (voice)