Marcia Gay Harden

Marcia Gay Harden

1959-08-14 La Jolla, California, USA 100 Credits

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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Renner

Renner

2025

as Salenus (voice)

4.7
Acting

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

Knox Goes Away

2024

as Ruby Knox

7.0
Acting

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

Daughter of the Bride

2023

as Diane

5.9
Acting

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

Tell It Like a Woman

2022

as Dr. Partovi

4.2
Acting

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

Confess, Fletch

2022

as Countess Sylvia de Grassi

6.2
Acting

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

Gigi & Nate

2022

as Claire Gibson

7.6
Acting

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

Moxie

2021

as Principal Shelly

7.2
Acting

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

Pink Skies Ahead

2020

as Pamela

5.7
Acting

A young woman struggles with an anxiety disorder after dropping out of school.

Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone

Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone

2020

as Self

10.0
Acting

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

Point Blank

2019

as Lieutenant Lewis

6.0
Acting

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

The Cold Open

2019

7.5
Acting

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

Love You to Death

Love You to Death

2019

as Camile Stoller

7.6
Acting

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

Fifty Shades Freed

2018

as Grace Grey

6.7
Acting

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

Fifty Shades Darker

2017

as Grace Trevelyan Grey

6.5
Acting

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

Get a Job

2016

as Katherine Dunn

5.3
Acting

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

After Words

2015

as Jane Taylor

5.5
Acting

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

Unity

2015

as Narrator (voice)

7.5
Acting

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

Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant

2015

as President of the FAFAFA

4.7
Acting

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

Grandma

2015

as Judy

6.5
Acting

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

Fifty Shades of Grey

2015

as Dr. Grey

5.9
Acting

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

You're Not You

2014

as Elizabeth

7.4
Acting

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

Magic in the Moonlight

2014

as Mrs. Baker

6.5
Acting

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

Elsa & Fred

Elsa & Fred

2014

as Lydia

6.0
Acting

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

Parkland

2013

as Doris Nelson

6.2
Acting

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

The Wine of Summer

2013

as Shelley

5.6
Acting

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

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

2013

as Self

6.0
Acting

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

If I Were You

2013

as Madelyn

6.7
Acting

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

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

2012

as Marjorie Dunfour

5.6
Acting

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

Innocent

2011

as Barbara Sabich

5.6
Acting

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

Detachment

2011

as Principal Carol Dearden

7.6
Acting

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

Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy

2011

as Edda Mellas

6.0
Acting

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

The Maiden Heist

2009

as Rose Barlow

5.6
Acting

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

Home

2009

as Inga

5.2
Acting

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

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

2009

as Janina Krzyżanowska

7.2
Acting

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

Whip It

2009

as Brooke Cavendar

6.7
Acting

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

Sex and Lies in Sin City

2008

as Becky Binion

3.4
Acting

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

Christmas Cottage

2008

as Maryanne Kinkade

6.3
Acting

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'

When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'

2008

as Self

8.2
Acting

Behind the scenes documentary on the making of the film.

When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'

When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'

2008

Thanks

8.2

Behind the scenes documentary on the making of the film.

The Tower

2008

as Zoe Cafritz

Acting

Revolves around a group of Chicago reporters who treat breaking news as cases to be investigated and solved.

Fog City Mavericks

Fog City Mavericks

2007

as Self

8.5
Acting

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

Into the Wild

2007

as Billie McCandless

7.8
Acting

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

Rails & Ties

Rails & Ties

2007

as Megan Stark

6.4
Acting

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

The Invisible

2007

as Diane Powell

6.3
Acting

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

The Mist

2007

as Mrs. Carmody

6.9
Acting

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

Canvas

2006

as Mary Marino

6.5
Acting

A woman's schizophrenia affects her relationships with her husband and son.

The Dead Girl

The Dead Girl

2006

as Melora

6.0
Acting

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

The Hoax

The Hoax

2006

as Edith Irving

6.3
Acting

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

In from the Night

2006

as Vicki Miller

6.7
Acting

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

American Dreamz

2006

as First Lady

5.0
Acting

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

Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

2006

as Self

2.0
Acting

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

Acting

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

Felicity: An American Girl Adventure

2005

as Mrs. Martha Merriman

6.6
Acting

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

American Gun

2005

as Janet Huttenson

5.7
Acting

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

Acting

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

Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast

2005

as Self - Presenter

2.0
Acting

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

Bad News Bears

2005

as Liz Whitewood

5.8
Acting

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.

P.S.

2004

as Missy Goldberg

5.6
Acting

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

See You in My Dreams

2004

as Angela Brown

Acting

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

Welcome to Mooseport

2004

as Grace Sutherland

5.1
Acting

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

She's Too Young

2004

as Trish Vogul

5.8
Acting

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

Mona Lisa Smile

2003

as Nancy Abbey

6.9
Acting

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

Mystic River

2003

as Celeste Boyle

7.7
Acting

The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.

Casa de los Babys

Casa de los Babys

2003

as Nan

5.5
Acting

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

King of Texas

2002

as Mrs. Susannah Lear Tumlinson

5.0
Acting

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

Guilty Hearts

2002

as Jenny Moran

4.3
Acting

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

Walking Shadow

2001

as Susan Silverman

3.5
Acting

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

Gaudi Afternoon

2001

as Frankie

5.0
Acting

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

Thin Air

2000

as Susan Silverman

5.0
Acting

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

Pollock

2000

as Lee Krasner

6.7
Acting

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

Space Cowboys

2000

as Sara Holland

6.4
Acting

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

Acting

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

Small Vices

1999

as Susan Silverman

1.0
Acting

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

Curtain Call

1998

as Michelle Tippet

5.0
Acting

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

Meet Joe Black

1998

as Allison

7.4
Acting

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

Labor of Love

1998

as Annie Pines

Acting

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

Desperate Measures

1998

as Dr. Samantha Hawkins

6.0
Acting

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

Flubber

1997

as Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds

5.7
Acting

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

Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing

1997

as Nancy Floyd

6.0
Acting

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

The Daytrippers

1997

as Libby

6.5
Acting

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

Far Harbor

1996

as Arabella

3.8
Acting

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

The First Wives Club

1996

as Dr. Leslie Rosen

6.7
Acting

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

The Spitfire Grill

1996

as Shelby Goddard

6.5
Acting

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

Spy Hard

1996

as Miss Cheevus

5.4
Acting

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

Convict Cowboy

1995

as Maggie Sinclair

6.1
Acting

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

Talking With

1995

as Laurie (segment "Clear Glass Marbles")

Acting

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

Safe Passage

1994

as Cynthia

6.0
Acting

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

In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway

1993

Acting

Backstage documentary chronicling the Original Broadway Production of “Angels in America.”

Geoffrey Beene 30

1993

Acting

A profile of fashion designer Geoffrey Beene, on his 30 years in the industry.

Used People

Used People

1992

as Norma

5.5
Acting

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

Crush

1992

as Lane

5.8
Acting

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

Late for Dinner

1991

as Joy Husband

5.6
Acting

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

Fever

1991

as Lacy

3.8
Acting

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

In Broad Daylight

1991

as Adina Rowan

5.7
Acting

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

Miller's Crossing

1990

as Verna

7.5
Acting

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

Kojak: None So Blind

1990

as Angelina

6.0
Acting

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

Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel

1988

as Marcia Connelly

8.5
Acting

A humourous telling of the history of the comic book superhero.

Not Only Strangers

Not Only Strangers

1979

as Jennie

Acting

A college student is raped by an acquaintance, and struggles with reporting the incident.

The Dreadful

N/A

as Morwen

Acting

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

Acting

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 ...