Marcia Gay Harden

ActorProducerCrew Aug 14 (age 66) La Jolla, California, USA 1971–2026 (55 year career)

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Biography

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 credit…

Known For

Film

Into the Wild

Billie McCandless

Film

Mystic River

Celeste Boyle

Film

Meet Joe Black

Allison

Film

Fifty Shades Freed

Grace Grey

Film

The Mist

Mrs. Carmody

Film

Fifty Shades Darker

Grace Trevelyan Grey

Film

Detachment

Principal Carol Dearden

Film

Miller's Crossing

Verna

Filmography

Acting (144)

Movies (103)

The Dreadful

as Morwen

Renner

as Salenus (voice)

This Ordinary Thing

as Self (voice)

Knox Goes Away

2024

as Ruby Knox

7.0

Daughter of the Bride

2023

as Diane

5.9

Confess, Fletch

2022

as Countess Sylvia de Grassi

Gigi & Nate

as Claire Gibson

Tell It Like a Woman

as Dr. Partovi

Moxie

as Principal Shelly

Pink Skies Ahead

as Pamela

Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone

as Self

Point Blank

as Lieutenant Lewis

Love You to Death

as Camile Stoller

The Cold Open

Fifty Shades Freed

as Grace Grey

In the Night I Remember Your Name

2018

as Pastor Joyce Speegle (voice)

1.0

Fifty Shades Darker

2017

as Grace Trevelyan Grey

Get a Job

as Katherine Dunn

Fifty Shades of Grey

as Dr. Grey

Grandma

as Judy

Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant

2015

as President of the FAFAFA

Unity

as Narrator (voice)

After Words

as Jane Taylor

Elsa & Fred

as Lydia

Magic in the Moonlight

as Mrs. Baker

You're Not You

as Elizabeth

Parkland

as Doris Nelson

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

as Self

If I Were You

as Madelyn

The Wine of Summer

as Shelley

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

2012

as Marjorie Dunfour

5.5

Detachment

2011

as Principal Carol Dearden

7.6

Innocent

2011

as Barbara Sabich

5.7

Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy

as Edda Mellas

Whip It

as Brooke Cavendar

The Maiden Heist

as Rose Barlow

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

2009

as Janina Krzyżanowska

7.3

Home

2009

as Inga

5.4

Sex and Lies in Sin City

2009

as Becky Binion

3.3

The Tower

2008

as Zoe Cafritz

Christmas Cottage

2008

as Maryanne Kinkade

6.3

When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'

as Self

The Mist

as Mrs. Carmody

Into the Wild

as Billie McCandless

The Invisible

as Diane Powell

Fog City Mavericks

as Self

Rails & Ties

as Megan Stark

Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater

2006

as Narrator

American Dreamz

as First Lady

The Dead Girl

as Melora

The Hoax

as Edith Irving

Canvas

as Mary Marino

In from the Night

as Vicki Miller

Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

2006

as Self

2.0

Willa Cather: The Road Is All

2005

as Voice of Willa Cather

Bad News Bears

as Liz Whitewood

American Gun

as Janet Huttenson

Felicity: An American Girl Adventure

2005

as Mrs. Martha Merriman

6.7

Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast

as Self - Presenter

P.S.

as Missy Goldberg

Welcome to Mooseport

as Grace Sutherland

She's Too Young

as Trish Vogul

See You in My Dreams

as Angela Brown

Mystic River: Beneath the Surface

2004

as Self

Mystic River: From Page to Screen

2003

as Self

Mystic River

as Celeste Boyle

Mona Lisa Smile

as Nancy Abbey

Casa de los Babys

as Nan

King of Texas

as Mrs. Susannah Lear Tumlinson

Guilty Hearts

as Jenny Moran

Gaudi Afternoon

as Frankie

Walking Shadow

as Susan Silverman

From Where I Sit

as Sharon

Space Cowboys

as Sara Holland

Pollock

as Lee Krasner

Thin Air

as Susan Silverman

Small Vices

as Susan Silverman

Meet Joe Black

as Allison

Desperate Measures

as Dr. Samantha Hawkins

Curtain Call

as Michelle Tippet

Labor of Love

as Annie Pines

Flubber

1997

as Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds

5.7

The Daytrippers

1997

as Libby

6.5

Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing

as Nancy Floyd

Spy Hard

as Miss Cheevus

The First Wives Club

as Dr. Leslie Rosen

Far Harbor

as Arabella

The Spitfire Grill

as Shelby Goddard

Convict Cowboy

as Maggie Sinclair

Talking With

as Laurie (segment "Clear Glass Marbles")

Safe Passage

1994

as Cynthia

5.9

Geoffrey Beene 30

1993

In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway

Used People

as Norma

Crush

as Lane

Late for Dinner

as Joy Husband

Fever

as Lacy

In Broad Daylight

as Adina Rowan

Miller's Crossing

as Verna

Kojak: None So Blind

as Angelina

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

1988

as Marcia Connelly

8.5

Not Only Strangers

1979

as Jennie

Street Smart

as Dr. Partovi

Television (41)

TRINITY

2026 Upcoming

as Margaret Vandenburg

Jul 16

Murder in a Small Town

2024

as Mayor Christie Holman

Sherri

as Self - Guest

The Cuphead Show!

as Sally Stageplay (voice)

So Help Me Todd

as Margaret

Uncoupled

as Claire Lewis

Money, Explained

as Self - Narrator

Barkskins

as Mathilde Geffard

The Kelly Clarkson Show

as Self

The Morning Show

as Maggie Brener

Tamron Hall

as Self - Guest

Reef Break

as Betty Ann Miller

RuPaul

as Self

A Million Little Things

as Alice Mendez

The Oil Fund

as USA Ambassadør

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

as Self - Guest

Code Black

as Dr. Leanne Rorish

BoJack Horseman

as Denise / McCaitlyn (voice)

8.5

How to Get Away with Murder

as Hannah Keating

Trophy Wife

as Dr. Diane Buckley

The Newsroom

as Rebecca Halliday

Bent

as Vanessa Carter

Body of Proof

as Sheila Temple

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

2009

as Self - Guest

5.1

Royal Pains

2009

as Dr. Elizabeth Blair

6.7

Damages

2007

as Claire Maddox

7.4

The Education of Max Bickford

2001

as Andrea Haskell

1.0

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Dana Lewis

The View

as Self

Chicago Hope

as Barbara Tomilson

Homicide: Life on the Street

as Joan Garbarek

Fallen Angels

as Marie

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Sinatra

as Ava Gardner

Gideon Oliver

as Lila

Simon & Simon

People's Choice Awards

as Self - Presenter

Great Performances

as Self

The Oscars

as Self

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Vicki Miller

8.6

Drift

Crew (2)

Movies (1)

When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'

2008

Thanks

8.2

Television (1)

So Help Me Todd

2022

Producer

7.4