Marcia Gay Harden biography and movies
Marcia Gay Harden was born on August 14, 1959, in La Jolla, California, the third of five children. Her father was in the military, and the family relocated often -- she first became interested in the theater when the family was living in Greece, and she had attended plays in Athens. 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.Although 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). Harden received good reviews for her sultry performance as Verna, a seductive, trouble-making moll. Harden thereafter worked steadily in supporting roles, including the portrayal of Ava Gardner in Sinatra (1992) (TV), a television biopic about Frank Sinatra. 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. It was a demanding dramatic role, and Harden won acclaim for her work, including a Tony award nomination. She returned to movie making in the mid-1990s, continuing to turn in superb supporting performances in films and television.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. 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 performance was deeply moving and unforgettable and earned her the Oscar and New York Film Critic's Circle awards for best supporting actress. 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 work often makes otherwise mediocre productions worth watching, fully inhabiting any character she portrays. She married Thaddaeus Scheel, with whom she worked on The Spitfire Grill (1996), in 1996 and the couple have three children, a daughter Eulala Scheel and twins Julitta and Hudson.

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Rate: 6 The Maiden Heist

Year: 2009

Genres: Comedy, Crime

Director: Peter Hewitt

Artists: Morgan Freeman, Philip Dorn Hebert, Todd Weeks, Christopher Walken, Joseph McKenna, Wynn Everett, Marcia Gay Harden, Bhavesh Patel, Anthony Cascio, Bates Wilder, Breckin Meyer, Jim Chiros


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Rate: 7.2 The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

Year: 2009

Genres: Biography, Drama

Director: John Kent Harrison

Artists: Krzysztof Pieczynski, Didzis Eglitis, Kristina Savickyte, Martins Smits, Steve Speirs, William Ellis, Rebecca Windheim, Danny Webb, Dmitri Eroshenko, Paul Freeman, Fiona Glascott, Danuta Stenka, Davids Stepanjans, Andris Gross, Arnita Jaunzeme, Leigh Lawson, Anna Paquin, Aleksandrs Petukhovs, Goran Visnjic, Dace Smits


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Rate: 9.7 Whip It

Year: 2009

Genres: Drama, Sport

Artists: Juliette Lewis, Drew Barrymore, Kristen Wiig, Marcia Gay Harden, Ellen Page


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Rate: 9.7 Into The Wild

Year: 2007

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama

Director: Sean Penn

Artists: William Hurt, Marcia Gay Harden, Jena Malone, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Keener


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Rate: 9.7 Into The Wild

Year: 2007

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama

Director: Sean Penn

Artists: William Hurt, Marcia Gay Harden, Jena Malone, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Keener


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Rate: 9.7 The Mist

Year: 2007

Genres: Horror, Thriller

Director: Frank Darabont

Artists: Nathan Gamble, Frances Sternhagen, Jeffrey DeMunn, William Sadler, Toby Jones, Andre Braugher, Laurie Holden, Marcia Gay Harden, Thomas Jane, Alexa Davalos, Sam Witwer, Myron, Chris Owen, David Jensen, Sally, Norm, Private Jessup, Melissa Suzanne McBride


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Rate: 7.4 The Mist

Year: 2007

Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Director: Frank Darabont

Artists: Marcia Gay Harden, David Drayton, Thomas Jane, Jeffrey DeMunn, William Sadler


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Rate: 9.7 Into The Wild

Year: 2007

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama

Director: Sean Penn

Artists: Brian H. Dierker, Jena Malone, William Hurt, Marcia Gay Harden, Emile Hirsch


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Rate: 9.7 Rails And Ties

Year: 2007

Genres: Drama

Director: Alison Eastwood

Artists: Eugene Byrd, Marin Hinkle, Miles Heizer, Kevin Bacon, Marcia Gay Harden


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Rate: 9.7 The Mist

Year: 2007

Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Director: Frank Darabont

Artists: Andre Braugher, Laurie Holden, Marcia Gay Harden, Thomas Jane, Toby Jones


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Rate: 8.2 Into The Wild

Year: 2007

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama

Director: Sean Penn

Artists: Marcia Gay Harden, Catherine Keener, William Hurt, Jena Malone, Emile Hirsch


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Rate: 6.7 Rails & Ties

Year: 2007

Genres: Drama

Director: Alison Eastwood

Artists: Robert Harvey, Stephen Peace, Rosanna, Kerri Randles, Vince the Engineer, Jim Cody Williams, Howie Pugh, Kathryn Joosten, Margo Martindale, Steve Eastin, Bonnie Root, Eugene Byrd, Marin Hinkle, Miles Heizer, Marcia Gay Harden, Kevin Bacon


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Rate: 6.7 Rails & Ties

Year: 2007

Genres: Drama

Director: Alison Eastwood

Artists: Eugene Byrd, Margo Martindale, Kevin Bacon, Marin Hinkle, Marcia Gay Harden


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Rate: 5.7 American Dreamz

Year: 2006

Genres: Comedy, Music

Director: Paul Weitz

Artists: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Jennifer Coolidge, Shazzy Riza, Chris Klein, Willem Dafoe, Mandy Moore, Hugh Grant, Noureen DeWulf, Iqbal Riza, Tony Yalda, Dennis Quaid, John Cho, Sam Golzari, Marcia Gay Harden, Seth Meyers, Bernard White, Judy Greer


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Rate: 6.4 American Gun

Year: 2005

Genres: Drama

Director: Aric Avelino

Artists: Tony Goldwyn, Linda Cardellini, Davenia McFadden, Kevin Phillips, Rex Linn, Joseph Kell, Nikki Reed, Amanda Seyfried, Chris Marquette, David Heymann, Lisa Long, Donald Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Marcia Gay Harden


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Rate: 5.8 Bad News Bears

Year: 2005

Genres: Sport, Comedy

Director: Richard Linklater

Artists: Ridge Canipe, Tyler Patrick Jones, Billy Bob Thornton, Greg Kinnear, Marcia Gay Harden


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Rate: 8 Mystic River

Year: 2003

Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Drama, Crime

Director: Clint Eastwood

Artists: Marcia Gay Harden, Laurence Fishburne, Tim Robbins, Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon


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Rate: 5.6 The First Wives Club

Year: 1996

Genres: Comedy

Director: Hugh Wilson

Artists: Diane Keaton, Bronson Pinchot, Victor Garber, Dan Hedaya, Marcia Gay Harden


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Rate: 9.7 Millers Crossing

Year: 1990

Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Director: Joel Coen

Artists: J.E. Freeman, Jon Polito, John Turturro, Marcia Gay Harden, Gabriel Byrne


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