04.23.2010

Marcia Gay HardenMarcia Gay Harden is an American film and theatre actress. Harden’s breakthrough role was in The First Wives’ Club (1996) which was followed by several roles which gained her wider fame including the hit comedy Flubber (1997) and Meet Joe Black (1998).

Marcia Gay HardenShe received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Lee Krasner in Pollock (2000) and received another nomination for Mystic River (2003). She has starred in a string of successful mainstream and independent movies, some of which are Space Cowboys (2000), Mona Lisa Smile (2003), Into the Wild (2007) and The Mist (2007). More recently, she starred in Whip It (2009).

Marcia Gay HardenIn 2009, Harden received a Tony Award for the Broadway play God of Carnage. She has been nominated for an Emmy Award and the Screen Actors Guild Award two times.

Marcia Gay HardenHarden 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.

Marcia Gay HardenOn December 15, 2003, her young nephew Sander Waring Harden and niece Audrey Gay Harden died as a result of a tragic fire in their Queens, New York, apartment, owned by her former sister-in-law Rebecca Harden who later died from injuries received in the fire. Rebecca Harden was divorced from the children’s father, Thaddeus Harden, who is Marcia Gay Harden’s brother.

Marcia Gay HardenIn 2009, Harden co-starred with Ellen Page and Drew Barrymore in the comedy Whip It. The film was a critical success. It was also in this year that Harden returned to Broadway in Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage. She starred with James Gandolfini, Hope Davis and Jeff Daniels. Each lead actor was nominated for the Tony Award and on June 8, Harden won Best Actress in a Play.

Marcia Gay HardenTogether, Harden’s films have grossed $724,487,920 domestically and $1,128,784,661 worldwide.

She currently has three films in development, Noah’s Ark: The New Beginning (2010), The No Game (2010) and If I Were You (2011).

04.19.2010

kelly_macdonaldKelly Macdonald (born February 23, 1976) is an Emmy Award-winning Scottish actress.

Macdonald’s career began when, while working as a barmaid, she saw a leaflet advertising an open casting session for what would become the movie Trainspotting, in which she played the part of Dianne, the underage seductress to Ewan McGregor’s Renton. Other roles include a reporter in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and an actress playing Peter Pan in Finding Neverland. She also had a big role in Robert Altman’s English period piece Gosford Park, where she played a maid.

Onkelly_macdonald_02 television, her highest-profile roles have been in two BBC dramas, the Paul Abbott serial State of Play (2003) and the one-off Richard Curtis piece The Girl in the Café (2005). Both of these were directed by David Yates, and both also starred Bill Nighy. For her performance in The Girl in the Café, Macdonald was nominated for a Golden Globe in 2006, and won an Emmy.

Macdonald most recently starred in the 2005 film Nanny McPhee, as the scullery maid Evangeline, and A Cock and Bull Story, where she plays the girlfriend of actor Steve Coogan’s onscreen alter ego. She also played Carla Jean Moss in the Coen brothers’ film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men.

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