She was married to Thaddaeus Scheel, with whom she worked on The Spitfire Grill (1996), from 1996 to 2012. Harden's work often makes otherwise mediocre productions worth watching, fully inhabiting any character she portrays. Continuing to work prolifically in features and television, she earned another Oscar nomination in 2003 for her supporting role in Clint Eastwood's Mystic River (2003), Harden having earlier worked with Eastwood in 2000's Space Cowboys (2000). Harden's performance was deeply moving and unforgettable and earned her the Oscar and New York Film Critic's Circle awards for best supporting actress.
However, it was just a matter of time before Harden got a chance to truly show her quality on-screen, and that time came in 2000, with Ed Harris's Pollock (2000), in which she played Lee Krasner, artist and long-suffering wife of Jackson Pollock.
Harden's road to success was a long one, her work generally being overlooked because the productions were either critically panned or ignored by audiences.
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She returned to movie making in the mid-1990s, continuing to turn in superb supporting performances in films and television. It was a demanding dramatic role, and Harden won acclaim for her work, including a Tony award nomination. Harden also worked in the theater and, in 1993, was part of the Broadway cast of Tony Kushner's "Angels in America", playing Harper, the alienated wife of a closeted gay man. Harden thereafter worked steadily in supporting roles, including the portrayal of Ava Gardner in Sinatra (1992), a television biopic about Frank Sinatra. Harden received good reviews for her sultry performance as Verna, a seductive, trouble-making moll.
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Harden began her college education at American universities in Europe and returned to the US to complete her studies at the University of Texas in 1983 went on to earn an MFA at NYU, and, thereafter, embarked on her acting career.Īlthough she had acted in a movie as early as 1986, in the little-known The Imagemaker (1986), her first mainstream role, coming alongside some TV movie work, was as a sultry femme fatale in the Coen Brothers' cleverly offbeat homage to the gangster movie, Miller's Crossing (1990).
The family relocated often - she first became interested in the theatre when the family was living in Greece, and she had attended plays in Athens. Her mother, Beverly (Bushfield), was a homemaker, and her father, Thad Harold Harden, was in the military. Marcia Gay Harden was born on August 14, 1959, in La Jolla, California, the third of five children. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.