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 Millers 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 Penns Into the Wild and Frank Darabonts 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 Rezas 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 HBOs series The Newsroom in 2013. In 2015, she had a starring role in the medical drama Code Black. Her other notable television credits include ABCs How to Get Away with Murder and the Apple TV+ series The Morning Show.She played Christian Greys 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.

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Daughter of the Bride

Diane

Movie 2023

Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel

Marcia Connelly

Movie 1988

Crush

Lane

Movie 1992

Home

Inga

Movie 2009

Canvas

Mary Marino

Movie 2006

Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy

Edda Mellas

Movie 2011

In Broad Daylight

Adina Rowan

Movie 1991

If I Were You

Madelyn

Movie 2013

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

Self

Movie 2013

Walking Shadow

Susan Silverman

Movie 2001

Gaudi Afternoon

Frankie

Movie 2001

Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone

Self

Movie 2020

Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

Self

Movie 2006

She's Too Young

Trish Vogul

Movie 2004

A Concert for Hurricane Relief

Self - Presenter

Movie 2005

Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater

Narrator

Movie 2006

Unity

Narrator (voice)

Movie 2015

Willa Cather: The Road Is All

Voice of Willa Cather

Movie 2005

The Cold Open

Movie 2019

Talking With

Movie 1995

Renner

Salenus (voice)

Movie

Not Only Strangers

Movie 1979

In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway

Movie 1993

Geoffrey Beene 30

Movie 1993

From Where I Sit

Sharon

Movie 2000

Love You to Death

Camile

Movie 2019

When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'

Self

Movie 2008

Fog City Mavericks

Self

Movie 2007

The Tower

Zoe Cafritz

Movie 2008

The Dreadful

Morwen

Movie

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Simon & Simon

Tv 1981

The View

Self

Tv 1997

Tamron Hall

Self - Guest

Tv 2019

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Tv 1992

Homicide: Life on the Street

Tv 1993

Damages

Claire Maddox

Tv 2007

Chicago Hope

Tv 1994

The Oscars

Self

Tv 1953

Drift

Tv

Money, Explained

Self - Narrator

Tv 2021

Code Black

Dr. Leanne Rorish

Tv 2015

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Tv 2019

Sherri

Self - Guest

Tv 2022

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Tv 2015

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Self - Guest

Tv 2009

Fallen Angels

Marie

Tv 1993

RuPaul

Self

Tv 2019

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Self

Tv 2019

Great Performances

Self

Tv 1971