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Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an Academy Award-winning American actress.

Early life

Harden was born in La Jolla, California and was one of five children. Her father, Thaddeus Harden, was in the Navy. She graduated from Surrattsville High School in Clinton, Maryland in 1976. Harden graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.A. in theatre and earned an MFA from the graduate theatre program of New York University.

Career

Harden debuted on Broadway in Tony Kushner's Angels in America in 1993. For her film work, she won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Pollock (2000), and was nominated in the same category for Mystic River (2003). She is currently shooting a film called "Home", in which she will be playing the role of a mother (to her real daughter, Eulala Scheel) as she did in Felicity: An American Girl Adventure (2005).

Other notable films include The Imagemaker (1986), her first screen role, in which she played a stage manager; the Coen Brothers' Miller's Crossing (1990), a 1930s mobster drama in which she gained her first wide exposure; the Disney sci-fi comedy Flubber (1997), a popular hit in which she co-starred with Robin Williams; the supernatural drama Meet Joe Black (1998); Labor of Love (1998), a Lifetime Television movie in which she starred with David Marshall Grant; and an all-star adventure-drama of aging astronauts, Space Cowboys (2000). She also guest-starred as a FBI undercover agent posing as a white-supremacist in "Raw," an episode of the popular crime drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit for which she has been nominated Best Guest Actress in a Drama Series." She recently returned in the series' eighth season premiere continuing her FBI plotline albeit in another case involving domestic ecoterrorism with its roots in a rape discovered by the SVU.

Private life

Her nephew and niece, Sander and Audrey Harden, died in Astoria, New York of severe burns from a house fire, along with her former-sister-in-law, Rebecca.

Harden is married to Thaddaeus Scheel, with whom she worked on The Spitfire Grill (1996), and the couple have three children: a daughter, Eulala Grace Scheel, and twins Julitta Dee Scheel and Hudson Harden Scheel. The family lives in Harlem, New York.

Selected Filmography

* Not Only Strangers (1979)
* The Imagemaker (1986)
* Miller's Crossing (1990)
* Fever (1991) (TV)
* Crush (1992)
* The First Wives Club (1996)
* Far Harbor (1996)
* Flubber (1997)
* Desperate Measures (1998)
* Meet Joe Black (1998)
* Curtain Call (1999)
* Space Cowboys (2000)
* Pollock (2000)
* Gaudi Afternoon (2001)
* Mystic River (2003)
* Casa de los babys (2003)
* Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
* Welcome to Mooseport (2004)
* P.S. (2004)
* Bad News Bears (2005)
* American Gun (2005)
* American Dreamz (2006)
* The Hoax (2006)
* The Dead Girl (2006)

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