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 Marcia Gay Harden was born on August 14, 1959, in La Jolla, California, the third of five children. Her mother, Beverly (Bushfield), was a homemaker, and her father, Thad Harold Harden, was in the military. The family relocated often -- she first became interested in the theatre when the family was living in Greece, and she had attended plays in Athens. Harden began her college education at American universities in Europe and returned to the US to complete her studies at the University of Texas in 1983; went on to earn an MFA at NYU, and, thereafter, embarked on her acting career.Although she had acted in a movie as early as 1986, in the little-known The Imagemaker (1986), her first mainstream role, coming alongside some TV movie work, was as a sultry femme fatale in the Coen Brothers' cleverly offbeat homage to the gangster movie, Miller's Crossing (1990). Harden received good reviews for her sultry performance as Verna, a seductive, trouble-making moll. Harden thereafter worked steadily in supporting roles, including the portrayal of Ava Gardner in Sinatra (1992), a television biopic about Frank Sinatra. Harden also worked in the theater and, in 1993, was part of the Broadway cast of Tony Kushner's "Angels in America", playing Harper, the alienated wife of a closeted gay man. It was a demanding dramatic role, and Harden won acclaim for her work, including a Tony award nomination. She returned to movie making in the mid-1990s, continuing to turn in superb supporting performances in films and television.Harden's road to success was a long one, her work generally being overlooked because the productions were either critically panned or ignored by audiences. However, it was just a matter of time before Harden got a chance to truly show her quality on-screen, and that time came in 2000, with Ed Harris's Pollock (2000), in which she played Lee Krasner, artist and long-suffering wife of Jackson Pollock. Harden's performance was deeply moving and unforgettable and earned her the Oscar and New York Film Critic's Circle awards for best supporting actress. Continuing to work prolifically in features and television, she earned another Oscar nomination in 2003 for her supporting role in Clint Eastwood's Mystic River (2003), Harden having earlier worked with Eastwood in 2000's Space Cowboys (2000).Harden's work often makes otherwise mediocre productions worth watching, fully inhabiting any character she portrays. She was married to Thaddaeus Scheel, with whom she worked on The Spitfire Grill (1996), from 1996 to 2012. The couple have three children, a daughter Eulala Scheel, and twins Julitta and Hudson.
Bio:
Marcia Gay Harden was born on August 14, 1959, in La Jolla, California, the third of five children. Her mother, Beverly (Bushfield), was a homemaker, and her father, Thad Harold Harden, was in the military. The family relocated often -- she first became interested in the theatre when the family was living in Greece, and she had attended plays in Athens. Harden began her college education at American universities in Europe and returned to the US to complete her studies at the University of Texas in 1983; went on to earn an MFA at NYU, and, thereafter, embarked on her acting career.Although she had acted in a movie as early as 1986, in the little-known The Imagemaker (1986), her first mainstream role, coming alongside some TV movie work, was as a sultry femme fatale in the Coen Brothers' cleverly offbeat homage to the gangster movie, Miller's Crossing (1990). Harden received good reviews for her sultry performance as Verna, a seductive, trouble-making moll. Harden thereafter worked steadily in supporting roles, including the portrayal of Ava Gardner in Sinatra (1992), a television biopic about Frank Sinatra. Harden also worked in the theater and, in 1993, was part of the Broadway cast of Tony Kushner's "Angels in America", playing Harper, the alienated wife of a closeted gay man. It was a demanding dramatic role, and Harden won acclaim for her work, including a Tony award nomination. She returned to movie making in the mid-1990s, continuing to turn in superb supporting performances in films and television.Harden's road to success was a long one, her work generally being overlooked because the productions were either critically panned or ignored by audiences. However, it was just a matter of time before Harden got a chance to truly show her quality on-screen, and that time came in 2000, with Ed Harris's Pollock (2000), in which she played Lee Krasner, artist and long-suffering wife of Jackson Pollock. Harden's performance was deeply moving and unforgettable and earned her the Oscar and New York Film Critic's Circle awards for best supporting actress. Continuing to work prolifically in features and television, she earned another Oscar nomination in 2003 for her supporting role in Clint Eastwood's Mystic River (2003), Harden having earlier worked with Eastwood in 2000's Space Cowboys (2000).Harden's work often makes otherwise mediocre productions worth watching, fully inhabiting any character she portrays. She was married to Thaddaeus Scheel, with whom she worked on The Spitfire Grill (1996), from 1996 to 2012. The couple have three children, a daughter Eulala Scheel, and twins Julitta and Hudson.
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Her father, brother, and ex-husband are all named Thaddaeus.When she first saw her future husband on the set of The Spitfire Grill (1996), she asked her co-star, Ellen Burstyn, her opinion of him. Ellen didn't think he was Marcia's type. Fortunately, Marcia didn't take her advice. Ellen became godmother of Marcia's three children.On December 15, 2003, her young nephew and niece were killed in a tragic fire. The deaths occurred when their Queens, New York, apartment, owned by her former sister-in-law, went up in flames after a burning candle set a sofa on fire. Her ex-sister-in-law also later died from injuries received in the fire.Gave birth to twins (her second and third child) at age 44, a son Hudson Scheel Harden and a daughter Julitta Dee Scheel on April 22, 2004. Children's father is her ex-husband, Thaddaeus Scheel.Since the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) started giving out competitive awards, in 1994, she and Christoph Waltz are only performers to win an Academy Award without being nominated for the same performance at the SAG.Achieved a degree of notoriety for making the rounds of the spring 2004 awards ceremonies while near-term with twins. When asked about all of the talk her hugely-pregnant figure was generating, she was quoted as saying that, when it comes to pregnancy, when you've got it, flaunt it.She was awarded the 2009 Tony Award for Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for "God of Carnage" on Broadway in New York City.Inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame in March 2005 in Austin, Texas.Her daughter, Eulala Scheel, played her daughter in An American Girl Adventure (2005) and in Whip It (2009).Ms. Harden was honored as a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Texas at Austin in the fall of 2008.She was the first University of Texas at Austin graduate to win an Oscar. She won for Best Supporting Actress in 2001 for Pollock (2000). The second UT grad to win was Ren��e Zellweger in 2004.She, Geena Davis, Marisa Tomei, Russell Crowe and Adrien Brody are the only actors to win an Oscar without being awarded for the same performance in none of its predecessor awards (Golden Globe, Critics Choice Awards, SAG and BAFTA). She, Geena Davis and Marisa Tomei were not even nominated for those awards for their performances in Pollock (2000) The Accidental Tourist_ and My Cousin Vinny (1992), and Crowe's only award for Gladiator (2000) before the Oscar was the Critics Choice award.Has worked with her real-life child, daughter, Eulala Grace Scheel (aka Eulala Scheel), on five occasions. Pollock (2000); TV Movie, An American Girl Adventure (2005); Home (2008); Whip It (2009); The Tooth Fairy (2014).Gave birth to her first child at age 39, a daughter Eulala Grace Scheel (aka Eulala Scheel) in September 1998. Child's father is her ex-husband, Thaddaeus Scheel.Filed for divorce from her husband Thaddaeus Scheel after 15 years of marriage [February 2012].MFA in Acting - New York University, Tisch School of the Arts (1988).Was nominated for Broadway's 1993 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for Tony Kushner's "Angels in America: Millennium Approaches."Was the 118th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Pollock (2000) at The 73rd Annual Academy Awards (2001) on March 25, 2001.Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1990" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 42. (1990)Jeff Daniels, James Gandolfini, Hope Davis and she were awarded the 2012 Back Stage Garland Award for Ensemble for "God of Carnage" at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.She was the 2010 Spring Commencement speaker at the University of Texas at Austin.Graduated from the University of Texas with a B.A. in theater (1980) and earned an MFA from the graduate theater program at New York University.Graduated from Surrattsville Sr. High in Clinton, Maryland (1976). Laura Wright also graduated from Surrattsville H.S., but in 1988.A close friend of Shohreh Aghdashloo.Is one of 15 Oscar-winning actresses to have been born in the state of California. The others are Fay Bainter, Gloria Grahame, Jo Van Fleet, Liza Minnelli, Tatum O'Neal, Diane Keaton, Sally Field, Anjelica Huston, Cher, Jodie Foster, Helen Hunt, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie and Brie Larson.Played mother, to her real-life daughter, Eulala Grace Scheel (aka Eulala Scheel), in 2008's,Home (2008), Eulala is her first daughter, to ex-husband Thaddaeus Scheel. |
| Name: |
Marcia Gay Harden |
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Actress,Producer (IMDB) |
| Area: |
All World |
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Business scope: |
Actress,Producer |
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Marcia Gay Harden profile
| Height: |
5' 4?' (1.64 m) |
| Biography: |
Marcia Gay Harden was born on August 14, 1959, in La Jolla, California, the third of five children. Her mother, Beverly (Bushfield), was a homemaker, and her father, Thad Harold Harden, was in the military. The family relocated often -- she first bec |
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Her father, brother, and ex-husband are all named Thaddaeus.When she first saw her future husband on the set of The Spitfire Grill (1996), she asked her co-star, Ellen Burstyn, her opinion of him. Ellen didn't think he was Marcia's type. Fortunately, Marcia didn't take her advice. Ellen became godmother of Marcia's three children.On December 15, 2003, her young nephew and niece were killed in a tragic fire. The deaths occurred when their Queens, New York, apartment, owned by her former sister-in-law, went up in flames after a burning candle set a sofa on fire. Her ex-sister-in-law also later died from injuries received in the fire.Gave birth to twins (her second and third child) at age 44, a son Hudson Scheel Harden and a daughter Julitta Dee Scheel on April 22, 2004. Children's father is her ex-husband, Thaddaeus Scheel.Since the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) started giving out competitive awards, in 1994, she and Christoph Waltz are only performers to win an Academy Award without being nominated for the same performance at the SAG.Achieved a degree of notoriety for making the rounds of the spring 2004 awards ceremonies while near-term with twins. When asked about all of the talk her hugely-pregnant figure was generating, she was quoted as saying that, when it comes to pregnancy, when you've got it, flaunt it.She was awarded the 2009 Tony Award for Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for "God of Carnage" on Broadway in New York City.Inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame in March 2005 in Austin, Texas.Her daughter, Eulala Scheel, played her daughter in An American Girl Adventure (2005) and in Whip It (2009).Ms. Harden was honored as a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Texas at Austin in the fall of 2008.She was the first University of Texas at Austin graduate to win an Oscar. She won for Best Supporting Actress in 2001 for Pollock (2000). The second UT grad to win was Ren��e Zellweger in 2004.She, Geena Davis, Marisa Tomei, Russell Crowe and Adrien Brody are the only actors to win an Oscar without being awarded for the same performance in none of its predecessor awards (Golden Globe, Critics Choice Awards, SAG and BAFTA). She, Geena Davis and Marisa Tomei were not even nominated for those awards for their performances in Pollock (2000) The Accidental Tourist_ and My Cousin Vinny (1992), and Crowe's only award for Gladiator (2000) before the Oscar was the Critics Choice award.Has worked with her real-life child, daughter, Eulala Grace Scheel (aka Eulala Scheel), on five occasions. Pollock (2000); TV Movie, An American Girl Adventure (2005); Home (2008); Whip It (2009); The Tooth Fairy (2014).Gave birth to her first child at age 39, a daughter Eulala Grace Scheel (aka Eulala Scheel) in September 1998. Child's father is her ex-husband, Thaddaeus Scheel.Filed for divorce from her husband Thaddaeus Scheel after 15 years of marriage [February 2012].MFA in Acting - New York University, Tisch School of the Arts (1988).Was nominated for Broadway's 1993 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for Tony Kushner's "Angels in America: Millennium Approaches."Was the 118th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Pollock (2000) at The 73rd Annual Academy Awards (2001) on March 25, 2001.Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1990" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 42. (1990)Jeff Daniels, James Gandolfini, Hope Davis and she were awarded the 2012 Back Stage Garland Award for Ensemble for "God of Carnage" at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.She was the 2010 Spring Commencement speaker at the University of Texas at Austin.Graduated from the University of Texas with a B.A. in theater (1980) and earned an MFA from the graduate theater program at New York University.Graduated from Surrattsville Sr. High in Clinton, Maryland (1976). Laura Wright also graduated from Surrattsville H.S., but in 1988.A close friend of Shohreh Aghdashloo.Is one of 15 Oscar-winning actresses to have been born in the state of California. The others are Fay Bainter, Gloria Grahame, Jo Van Fleet, Liza Minnelli, Tatum O'Neal, Diane Keaton, Sally Field, Anjelica Huston, Cher, Jodie Foster, Helen Hunt, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie and Brie Larson.Played mother, to her real-life daughter, Eulala Grace Scheel (aka Eulala Scheel), in 2008's,Home (2008), Eulala is her first daughter, to ex-husband Thaddaeus Scheel. |
| Trademarks: |
Often plays conflicted, unsure characters who go through a radical change in their lives |
| Quotes: |
Until people get to know me they think I'm a dark, sensuous bitch.
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The only thing that seemed to me I could do in such a way that no one else could was acting. I thought, I can be a doctor, but there's going to be someone else who is just as good or better. I can be a lawyer, which I still sometimes think I would love to be, but I think there's someone who can do it just as good or better. So, being an actor, there will be people who can do it just as good or better, but I'll have my voice, and no one will have my voice.
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I was the girl who got off the bus wondering where Marty Scorsese was and why he wouldn't cast me in his next film.
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People have such false perceptions of how stardom really works. After I won the Oscar for Pollock (2000), some newspaper printed, 'She should get a million-dollar bump.' My sisters would write me, 'You're gonna get this million-dollar bump!' I thought, I'll open the shutters to my hotel, and Scorsese will be on the lawn, and the lawn will be made out of emeralds. I never made less money than right after the Oscar.
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[on her new role on The Newsroom (2012)] When I first got the role, Jeff Daniels said: 'I'll give you a little Aaron Sorkin tip: Come to set with your lines down for the rehearsal.' I said, 'What?' Usually the actor learns them during the day. But as an actress, I have never had a sigh of consternation when I get something complicated. You know how it is when you feel used in a good way. It's like that old song, 'keep on using me, 'til you use me up.' I just feel grateful. |
| Salaries: |
Pollock (2001) - $1,000,000 |
| Job title: |
Actress,Producer |
| Others works: |
Starred as Harper Pitt/Martin Heller/ Council of Principalities in the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Angels in America", a new play by Tony Kushner - Walter Kerr Theatre, NYC (1993).
Played "Masha" in Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull& |
| Spouse: |
Thaddaeus Scheel (July 9, 1996 - 2012) (divorced, 3 children) |
| Children: |
Eulala ScheelHudson Scheel HardenJulitta Dee Scheel |
| Parents: |
Beverly Bushfield
Thad Harold Harden |
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