Marcia Gay Harden is an actress from America. She was born on August 14, 1959. She has won important awards like an Academy Award and a Tony Award. She also got nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards.
She started acting on TV in the 1980s and later in movies. Her big break came in 1990 with the film Miller’s Crossing. She won an Academy Award for her role in the movie Pollock in 2000.
Marcia also acted in plays on Broadway. In 1993, she debuted on Broadway in Angels in America and got nominated for a Tony Award.
She has been in TV shows like The Newsroom, How to Get Away with Murder, The Morning Show, Code Black, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Marcia was born in San Diego, California. Her dad was in the U.S. Navy, so she moved a lot. She finished high school in Maryland in 1976. Later, she studied theater at the University of Texas and got a Master of Fine Arts from New York University in 1988.
She started her career in a student film in 1979. In the 1980s, she appeared in TV shows like Simon & Simon and Kojak. She did her first film, The Imagemaker, in 1986.
In 1996, Marcia married Thaddaeus Scheel, and they have three children. They divorced in 2012.
Apart from acting, Marcia is into pottery, which she learned in high school. She is also skilled in ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement. She even wrote a memoir called The Seasons of My Mother in 2018, where she talks about her mom’s Alzheimer’s disease.