马西娅·盖伊·哈登，美国演员。她是那种天赋禀异、默默耕耘但却不能大红大紫的实力派演员。1980年在德克萨斯大学取得文学士学位，后又在纽约大学取得了艺术硕士学位。毕业之后，哈登在百老汇的戏剧舞台开始了她的表演生涯，并曾因《美国天使》一剧获得过戏剧表演的最高奖“托尼奖”的提名。在电视荧屏，哈登出演了92年轰动一时的系列剧《辛纳特拉》。在大银幕上，哈登的处女作是1990年由知名独立制片人科恩兄弟编导的《米勒倒戈》。哈登通往成功的路途是如此漫长，直到2000年她与艾德哈里斯一起出演了影片《波拉克》，在片中她饰演了画家波拉克的妻子，她的表演令人难忘，为此她赢得了奥斯卡最佳女配角和纽约电影奖最受欢迎女演员。2003年她又凭借影片《神秘河》中的出色表演再一次获得了奥斯卡奖的提名。2004年她出演了影片《爱你无条件》和《总统接招》，但这些都只是商业影片，并没有彰显出她的演技。2005年她出演了影片《少棒闯天下》。

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 credits include The First Wives Club (1996), Flubber (1997), and Space Cowboys (2000). She received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Lee Krasner in Pollock (2000). She had a supporting role in Mona Lisa Smile (2003). She received a second Academy Award nomination for her performance as Celeste Boyle in the drama film Mystic River (2003).

She appeared in several 2007 films, including Sean Penn's Into the Wild and Frank Darabont's The Mist, based on the novella by Stephen King. Also in 2007, she shared top billing with Kevin Bacon in Rails & Ties, the directorial debut of Alison Eastwood. Harden played a woman who has a mastectomy in Home (2008). (Her character in Rails & Ties also had a mastectomy.) One scene required her to bare her breasts, with the missing breast removed using computer-generated imagery. In Home, her co-stars include her daughter, Eulala Scheel.

In 2009, she had quite a busy year. She appeared as a regular on the FX series Damages as a shrewd corporate attorney opposite Glenn Close and William Hurt. She co-starred in the films Whip It, and The Maiden Heist. She returned to Broadway in Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage, co-starring with James Gandolfini, Hope Davis and Jeff Daniels. All three actors were nominated for a Tony Award; Harden won Best Actress in a Play. She received her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her role as FBI Special Agent Dana Lewis in the crime drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and earned a second Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her performance as Janina Krzyżanowska in the television film The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009).

She reunited with her former Broadway co-star Jeff Daniels as a new cast member on HBO's series The Newsroom in 2013. In 2015, she had a starring role in the medical drama Code Black. Her other notable television credits include ABC's How to Get Away with Murder and the Apple TV+ series The Morning Show.

She played Christian Grey's mother, Grace Trevelyan Grey, in the Fifty Shades film series from 2015 to 2018. She stars in the 2022 CBS drama So Help Me Todd.

Marcia Gay Harden (née le 14 août 1959) est une actrice américaine de cinéma et de théâtre. Le rôle décisif de Harden était dans The First Wives Club (1996), suivi de plusieurs rôles qui lui ont valu une renommée plus large, notamment la comédie à succès Flubber (1997) et Meet Joe Black (1998). Elle a reçu un Academy Award de la meilleure actrice dans un second rôle pour son rôle de Lee Krasner dans Pollock (2000). Elle a joué dans une série de films grand public et indépendants à succès, tels que Space Cowboys (2000), Into the Wild (2007) et The Mist (2007). Les crédits récents de Harden incluent le film de Lasse Hallstrom, The Hoax, en face de Richard Gere, et The Invisible de The Walt Disney Company, réalisé par David S Goyer. Elle a également été récemment vue dans The Dead Girl de Lakeshore Entertainment, réalisé par Karen Moncrief et avec Toni Colette, Kerry Washington, Mary Steenburgen et Brittany Murphy. En 2009, Harden a reçu un Tony Award pour la pièce de Broadway God of Carnage. Elle a été nominée deux fois pour un Emmy Award et le Screen Actors Guild Award.

Marcia Gay Harden (* 14. August 1959 in San Diego, Kalifornien) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin und Oscarpreisträgerin.

Harden wurde in La Jolla geboren. Sie entstammt einer kinderreichen Familie. Sie studierte Theaterwissenschaften an der University of Texas at Austin und an der New York University (Tisch School of the Arts). Im Jahr 1993 spielte sie im Theaterstück Angels in America.

Seit ihrem Auftritt in Ethans und Joel Coens Mafia-Film Miller’s Crossing 1990 drehte sie bis zu ihrem Durchbruch zehn Jahre später mit Space Cowboys und Pollock neben Kino- auch Fernsehfilme. 2001 erhielt sie einen Oscar für Pollock, 2003 eine Oscar-Nominierung für Mystic River. Sie erhielt außerdem den Tony Awards 2009 als beste Hauptdarstellerin in dem Theaterstück Der Gott des Gemetzels.

Harden war von 1996 bis 2012 mit dem Requisiteur Thaddaeus Scheel verheiratet und hat drei Kinder.

Marcia Gay Harden (San Diego, 14 de agosto de 1959) é uma premiada atriz estadunidense vencedora do Oscar de melhor atriz (coadjuvante/secundária) por seu papel no filme Pollock, de 2000. Recebeu outra indicação ao prêmio, nesta mesma categoria, por Mystic River, de 2003. Em 2000, Harden ganharia o papel que a tornaria mais conhecida, Lee Krasner em Pollock. Por este papel, ela ganharia um Oscar de melhor atriz (coadjuvante/secundária). Ela também foi aclamada pela crítica nova-iorquina e ganharia o prêmio da NYFCC por sua participação no filme que contou, também, com participações de Ed Harris e Jennifer Connelly.