Marcia Gay Harden Uncensored
Marcia 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).
She 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).
In 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.
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.
On 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.
In 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.
Together, 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).
