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...
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Complete Filmography

Renner
2025
as Salenus (voice)
A computer genius invents an A.I life coach to help him find love, but realizes too late he accidentally programmed his manipulative mother into the c...

Knox Goes Away
2024
as Ruby Knox
A contract killer, after being diagnosed with a fast-moving form of dementia, is presented with the opportunity to redeem himself by saving the life o...

Daughter of the Bride
2023
as Diane
Diane and Kate are not only mother and daughter but also best friends. Their lives are turned upside down, however, when Diane announces her engagemen...

Tell It Like a Woman
2022
as Dr. Partovi
Tell It Like A Woman comprises of seven segments that are directed by female directors from different parts of the world and shot in Italy, India, Jap...

Confess, Fletch
2022
as Countess Sylvia de Grassi
The roguishly charming and endlessly troublesome Fletch becomes the prime suspect in a murder case while searching for a stolen art collection. The on...

Gigi & Nate
2022
as Claire Gibson
A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.

Moxie
2021
as Principal Shelly
Inspired by her mom's rebellious past and a confident new friend, a shy 16-year-old publishes an anonymous zine calling out sexism at her school.

Pink Skies Ahead
2020
as Pamela
A young woman struggles with an anxiety disorder after dropping out of school.

Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone
2020
as Self
Online special co-hosted by Billy Eichner and Lilly Singh in response to COVID-19 featuring celebrities and live performances raising funds for LGBTQ ...

Point Blank
2019
as Lieutenant Lewis
A nurse is forced to spring a wounded murder suspect from the hospital when the man’s brother kidnaps his pregnant wife and wants to make a trade.

The Cold Open
2019
Aubrey Plaza leads a satanic cult of actresses in a sacrificial offering to preserve the integral values of independent cinema.

Love You to Death
2019
as Camile Stoller
Inspired by a true story, this film tells the shocking tale of a mother and daughter who are nothing like they seem, their tumultuous relationship end...

Fifty Shades Freed
2018
as Grace Grey
Believing they have left behind shadowy figures from their past, newlyweds Christian and Ana fully embrace an inextricable connection and shared life ...

Fifty Shades Darker
2017
as Grace Trevelyan Grey
When a wounded Christian Grey tries to entice a cautious Ana Steele back into his life, she demands a new arrangement before she will give him another...

Get a Job
2016
as Katherine Dunn
Life after college graduation is not exactly going as planned for Will and Jillian who find themselves lost in a sea of increasingly strange jobs. But...

After Words
2015
as Jane Taylor
Jane Taylor, a librarian, has lost her job. Depressed and suicidal, she decides to take a final wonderful trip to Costa Rica before swallowing a bottl...

Unity
2015
as Narrator (voice)
Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none of these has assuaged humankind from killing one anothe...

Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant
2015
as President of the FAFAFA
A self-anointed 'renegade' male flight attendant must save the day when the airline he works for tries to eliminate flight attendants as a cost-cuttin...

Grandma
2015
as Judy
Self-described misanthrope Elle Reid has her protective bubble burst when her 18-year-old granddaughter, Sage, shows up needing help. The two of them ...

Fifty Shades of Grey
2015
as Dr. Grey
When college senior Anastasia Steele steps in for her sick roommate to interview prominent businessman Christian Grey for their campus paper, little d...

You're Not You
2014
as Elizabeth
A drama centered on a classical pianist who has been diagnosed with ALS and the brash college student who becomes her caregiver.

Magic in the Moonlight
2014
as Mrs. Baker
Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.

Elsa & Fred
2014
as Lydia
After his daughter persuades him to move into a new apartment, aged widower Fred strikes up a friendship with his eccentric 74-year-old neighbour Elsa...

Parkland
2013
as Doris Nelson
November 22nd, 1963 was a day that changed the world forever — when young American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. This f...

The Wine of Summer
2013
as Shelley
A frustrated actor travels to Spain in search of a playwright, a trip that unexpectedly binds him to a group of five previously unconnected people.

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
2013
as Self
With a focus on Clint Eastwood's career as a director, this documentary features movie clips, behind-the-scenes footage, interviews with people with w...

If I Were You
2013
as Madelyn
When a woman tries to outwit her husband's sexy young mistress, the unexpected consequences include starring as King Lear in a very amateur production...

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
2012
as Marjorie Dunfour
Precocious yet sensitive teenager James has a deep perception of the world but no idea how to live in it. Finding no help from his divorced parents no...

Innocent
2011
as Barbara Sabich
Judge Rusty Sabich is charged with the murder of his wife, a situation that comes 20 years after he was cleared in the death of his mistress. During t...

Detachment
2011
as Principal Carol Dearden
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Bar...

Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy
2011
as Edda Mellas
Based on the events surrounding the murder of British student Meredith Kercher. Hayden Panettiere (Heroes) and Marcia Gay Harden (Academy Award winner...

The Maiden Heist
2009
as Rose Barlow
A comedy centered on three museum security guards who devise a plan to steal back the artworks to which they have become attached after they are trans...

Home
2009
as Inga
Inga is a mother with the soul of a poet at a crossroads. Her estranged husband Hermann is bereft of emotional support for her in the wake of her reco...

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
2009
as Janina Krzyżanowska
Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted w...

Whip It
2009
as Brooke Cavendar
In Bodeen, Texas, Land Of The Dragon, an indie-rock loving misfit finds a way of dealing with her small-town misery after she discovers a roller derby...

Sex and Lies in Sin City
2008
as Becky Binion
Star-studded thriller about the sordid murder of reckless Las Vegas casino mogul Ted Binion. This gritty film delves into the twisted world of Binion'...

Christmas Cottage
2008
as Maryanne Kinkade
Inspired by the picturesque paintings of Thomas Kinkade, The Christmas Cottage tells the semi-autobiographical tale of how a young boy is propelled to...

When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'
2008
as Self
Behind the scenes documentary on the making of the film.

When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'
2008
Thanks
Behind the scenes documentary on the making of the film.
The Tower
2008
as Zoe Cafritz
Revolves around a group of Chicago reporters who treat breaking news as cases to be investigated and solved.

Fog City Mavericks
2007
as Self
Fog City Mavericks: The Filmmakers of San Francisco is a compelling exploration of the legendary filmmakers who call the San Francisco Bay Area home i...

Into the Wild
2007
as Billie McCandless
After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savi...

Rails & Ties
2007
as Megan Stark
A deadly collision between a train and car lead to an unlikely bond between the train engineer and a young boy who escapes the carnage.

The Invisible
2007
as Diane Powell
After an attack leaves him in limbo -- invisible to the living and also near death -- a teenager discovers the only person who might be able help him ...

The Mist
2007
as Mrs. Carmody
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store wi...

Canvas
2006
as Mary Marino
A woman's schizophrenia affects her relationships with her husband and son.

The Dead Girl
2006
as Melora
The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated people begin to intersect.

The Hoax
2006
as Edith Irving
In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1...

In from the Night
2006
as Vicki Miller
Vicki Miller is a writer who has cut herself off from her dysfunctional family. Her life drastically changes when one night, her 16-year-old nephew Bo...

American Dreamz
2006
as First Lady
The new season of "American Dreamz," the wildly popular television singing contest, has captured the country's attention, as the competition looks to ...

Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
2006
as Self
Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock explores the life and work of playwright Tony Kushner. Starting in 2001, when Kushner was mounting the production of his pla...
Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater
2006
as Narrator
Theater producer and director Margo Jones pioneered the regional theater movement, supporting the work of new playwrights such as Tennessee Williams.

Felicity: An American Girl Adventure
2005
as Mrs. Martha Merriman
Pre-American Revolution Virginian girl whose love for the outdoors leads to the friendship of a lifetime. Felicity loves horses, and though her parent...

American Gun
2005
as Janet Huttenson
Seemingly disparate portraits of people -- among them a single mother, a high school principal, and an ace student -- Distinctly American -- all affec...
Willa Cather: The Road Is All
2005
as Voice of Willa Cather
Willa Cather had the great good fortune to have lived among the first generation of white settlers in 1880's Nebraska, and she gives witness to their ...

Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
2005
as Self - Presenter
A one-hour, commercial-free benefit concert television special that aired simulcast worldwide on September 9, 2005, at 8 pm ET/CT live.

Bad News Bears
2005
as Liz Whitewood
Morris Buttermaker is a burned-out minor league baseball player who loves to drink and can't keep his hands to himself. His long-suffering lawyer arra...

P.S.
2004
as Missy Goldberg
Louise, an unfulfilled divorced woman with regrets, gets the chance to relive her past when she meets a young man who bears an uncanny resemblance, in...

See You in My Dreams
2004
as Angela Brown
Joe, an overwrought rancher is striving from his harsh upbringing, trying make a better life for his family. When his business falters, Joe fears his ...

Welcome to Mooseport
2004
as Grace Sutherland
A US president who has retired after two terms in office returns to his hometown of Mooseport, Maine and decides to run for Mayor against another loca...

She's Too Young
2004
as Trish Vogul
A mother/daughter relationship is thrown off balance when the mother discovers that her "good girl" daughter is part of a group who are engaging in se...

Mona Lisa Smile
2003
as Nancy Abbey
Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953. Determined to confront...

Mystic River
2003
as Celeste Boyle
The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.

Casa de los Babys
2003
as Nan
A group of women, including Skipper, the wealthy young Jennifer and the domineering Nan, journey from the United States to South America in hopes of e...

King of Texas
2002
as Mrs. Susannah Lear Tumlinson
In this re-imagining of Shakespear's King Lear, Patrick Stewart stars as John Lear, a Texas cattle baron, who, after dividing his wealth among his thr...

Guilty Hearts
2002
as Jenny Moran
Quiet and unassuming church organist Jenny Moran is depressed with her marriage to working-class Matt and leaves him. Jenny begins an affair with the ...

Walking Shadow
2001
as Susan Silverman
Spenser attends a play at his girlfriend's insistence to meet a director who is allegedly being stalked. During the performance, the lead actor in a h...

Gaudi Afternoon
2001
as Frankie
Barcelona hasn’t turned out to be the romantic dreamland fledgling translator Cassandra thought it would be. But just when she’s about to return to Am...

Thin Air
2000
as Susan Silverman
Frank Belson didn't ask too many questions about the past of his new wife Lisa St. Claire, even after she suddenly and mysteriously disappeared one ni...

Pollock
2000
as Lee Krasner
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United Sta...

Space Cowboys
2000
as Sara Holland
Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daedalus, the Air Force's test program for space travel...
From Where I Sit
2000
as Sharon
High school sex education teacher Sharon and her husband, overwhelmed family man Bob humorously deal with life's ups and downs in suburban Boston.

Small Vices
1999
as Susan Silverman
Bested on the best-selling novel by author Robert B. Parker, Joe Mantegna is Spenser - Boston's best-known private eye. Called upon to investigate a c...

Curtain Call
1998
as Michelle Tippet
A bachelor afraid of marriage angers his long-time girlfriend by buying a splendid townhouse just for himself, only to find it haunted by the ghosts o...

Meet Joe Black
1998
as Allison
Bill Parrish has it all - success, wealth and power. Days before his 65th birthday, he receives a visit from a mysterious stranger, Joe Black, who soo...

Labor of Love
1998
as Annie Pines
Annie, a 36-year-old, single woman, desperately wants to have a child. Her best friend, Mickey, a gay man who had tried unsuccessfully to adopt a chil...

Desperate Measures
1998
as Dr. Samantha Hawkins
San Francisco police officer Frank Connor is in a frantic search for a compatible bone marrow donor for his gravely ill son. There's only one catch th...

Flubber
1997
as Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds
Professor Phillip Brainard, an absent minded professor, works with his assistant Weebo, trying to create a substance that's a new source of energy and...

Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing
1997
as Nancy Floyd
The incredible story of the events leading up to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York and the capture of the terrorists.

The Daytrippers
1997
as Libby
Eliza D'Amico thinks her marriage to Louis is going great until she finds a mysterious love note to her husband. Concerned, she goes to her mother for...

Far Harbor
1996
as Arabella
A group of seven young people spend a weekend in the home of a wealthy yuppie on Long Island and live out their problems.

The First Wives Club
1996
as Dr. Leslie Rosen
After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the tr...

The Spitfire Grill
1996
as Shelby Goddard
Percy, upon being released from prison, goes to the small town of Gillead, to find a place where she can start over again. She is taken in by Hannah, ...

Spy Hard
1996
as Miss Cheevus
The evil Gen. Rancor has his sights set on world domination, and only one man can stop him: Dick Steele, also known as Agent WD-40. Rancor needs to ob...

Convict Cowboy
1995
as Maggie Sinclair
New inmate Clay Treyton, doing time for fisticuffs, is sent to a Montana ranch where prisoners spend time working with horses. Encouraged by the warde...

Talking With
1995
as Laurie (segment "Clear Glass Marbles")
Adapted from the group of stage monologues by the pseudononymous "Jane Martin," this is a series of characters snake handler, daughter, baton twirler,...

Safe Passage
1994
as Cynthia
Recently estranged from her husband, and mother of seven sons, Mag Singer stands poised to pursue a whole new way of life. But when one of her childre...

In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway
1993
Backstage documentary chronicling the Original Broadway Production of “Angels in America.”
Geoffrey Beene 30
1993
A profile of fashion designer Geoffrey Beene, on his 30 years in the industry.

Used People
1992
as Norma
At her husband's funeral, Pearl, Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend of her husband, whose advice ye...

Crush
1992
as Lane
On the way to interview a novelist, Lane and Christina are involved in a car crash which leaves literary critic Christina brain-damaged. Lane undertak...

Late for Dinner
1991
as Joy Husband
Two young men, one in need of medical attention, are cryogenically frozen in the early 1960s. The two are preoccupied with the fact that the police ar...

Fever
1991
as Lacy
Fresh out of prison, all Ray wants is to get back with Lacy, but she's in a stable relationship now with Elliott, a pacifist, and wants nothing to do ...

In Broad Daylight
1991
as Adina Rowan
The fanatically uncompromising Len Rowan and his family insult and terrorize the citizens of a small town for years. One day the comment of a saleswom...

Miller's Crossing
1990
as Verna
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.

Kojak: None So Blind
1990
as Angelina
After a flighty young woman accidentally witnesses a Mob hit in an Italian restaurant, New York Police Inspector Theo Kojak must both protect her from...

Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
1988
as Marcia Connelly
A humourous telling of the history of the comic book superhero.

Not Only Strangers
1979
as Jennie
A college student is raped by an acquaintance, and struggles with reporting the incident.
The Dreadful
N/A
as Morwen
Set against the backdrop of the War of the Roses follows Anne and her mother-in-law Morwen, who live a solitary, harsh life on the outskirts of societ...
Street Smart
N/A
as Dr. Partovi
A look into the lives of a lively group of unhoused young adults in the iconic beach town, who come together with humor and a bit of Robin Hood-style ...