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.
Meet Joe Black
(Allison)
Mystic River
(Celeste Boyle)
Miller's Crossing
(Verna)
Spy Hard
(Miss Cheevus)
Daughter of the Bride
(Diane)
The First Wives Club
(Dr. Leslie Rosen)
Space Cowboys
(Sara Holland)
The Mist
(Mrs. Carmody)
Into the Wild
(Billie McCandless)
Whip It
(Brooke Cavendar)
In from the Night
(Vicki Miller)
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
(Janina Krzyżanowska)
Mona Lisa Smile
(Nancy Abbey)
The Maiden Heist
(Rose Barlow)
Desperate Measures
(Dr. Samantha Hawkins)
Felicity: An American Girl Adventure
(Mrs. Martha Merriman)
American Dreamz
(First Lady)
Flubber
(Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds)
The Invisible
(Diane Powell)
Pollock
(Lee Krasner)
Bad News Bears
(Liz Whitewood)
The Hoax
(Edith Irving)
The Dead Girl
(Melora)
Christmas Cottage
(Maryanne Kinkade)
Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
(Marcia Connelly)
Rails & Ties
(Megan Stark)
American Gun
(Janet Huttenson)
Crush
(Lane)
Casa de los Babys
(Nan)
Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing
(Nancy Floyd)
Welcome to Mooseport
(Grace Sutherland)
The Spitfire Grill
(Shelby Goddard)
King of Texas
(Mrs. Susannah Lear Tumlinson)
Curtain Call
(Michelle Tippet)
Safe Passage
(Cynthia)
Home
(Inga)
Innocent
(Barbara Sabich)
Canvas
(Mary Marino)
Detachment
(Principal Carol Dearden)
Late for Dinner
(Joy Husband)
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
(Marjorie Dunfour)
Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy
(Edda Mellas)
In Broad Daylight
(Adina Rowan)
If I Were You
(Madelyn)
Convict Cowboy
(Maggie Sinclair)
Get a Job
(Katherine Dunn)
Small Vices
(Susan Silverman)
Parkland
(Doris Nelson)
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
(Self)
Walking Shadow
(Susan Silverman)
Fifty Shades of Grey
(Dr. Grey)
Thin Air
(Susan Silverman)
Magic in the Moonlight
(Mrs. Baker)
Gaudi Afternoon
(Frankie)
Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone
(Self)
Elsa & Fred
(Lydia)
Far Harbor
(Arabella)
You're Not You
(Elizabeth)
Confess, Fletch
(Countess Sylvia de Grassi)
Fever
(Lacy)
See You in My Dreams
(Angela Brown)
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
(Self)
Grandma
(Judy)
She's Too Young
(Trish Vogul)
A Concert for Hurricane Relief
(Self - Presenter)
Used People
(Norma)
Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater
(Narrator)
Unity
(Narrator (voice))
Knox Goes Away
(Ruby Knox)
After Words
(Jane Taylor)
Willa Cather: The Road Is All
(Voice of Willa Cather)
The Wine of Summer
(Shelley)
The Cold Open
Fifty Shades Darker
(Grace Trevelyan Grey)
Talking With
Fifty Shades Freed
(Grace Grey)
Labor of Love
(Annie Pines)
Kojak: None So Blind
(Angelina)
Renner
(Salenus (voice))
Not Only Strangers
Sex and Lies in Sin City
(Becky Binion)
In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway
Guilty Hearts
(Jenny Moran)
Point Blank
(Lieutenant Lewis)
P.S.
(Missy Goldberg)
Geoffrey Beene 30
From Where I Sit
(Sharon)
Love You to Death
(Camile)
Moxie
(Principal Shelly)
Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant
(President of the FAFAFA)
When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'
(Self)
The Daytrippers
(Libby)
Pink Skies Ahead
(Pamela)
Tell It Like a Woman
(Dr. Partovi)
Gigi & Nate
(Claire Gibson)
Fog City Mavericks
(Self)
The Tower
(Zoe Cafritz)
Simon & Simon
The View
(Self)
Tamron Hall
(Self - Guest)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
(Dana Lewis)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Homicide: Life on the Street
Damages
(Claire Maddox)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
(Vicki Miller)
Chicago Hope
The Education of Max Bickford
(Andrea Haskell)
The Oscars
(Self)
Drift
Trophy Wife
(Dr. Diane Buckley)
Money, Explained
(Self - Narrator)
How to Get Away with Murder
(Hannah Keating)
Bent
(Vanessa Carter)
Code Black
(Dr. Leanne Rorish)
Body of Proof
(Sheila Temple)
Gideon Oliver
(Lila)
Sinatra
(Ava Gardner)
So Help Me Todd
(Margaret)
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Sherri
(Self - Guest)
Uncoupled
(Claire Lewis)
The Cuphead Show!
(Sally Stageplay (voice))
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
(Self - Guest)
Fallen Angels
(Marie)
RuPaul
(Self)
The Kelly Clarkson Show
(Self)
A Million Little Things
(Alice Mendez)
BoJack Horseman
(Denise (voice))
The Morning Show
(Maggie Brener)
Reef Break
(Betty Ann Miller)
Barkskins
(Mathilde Geffard)
The Newsroom
(Rebecca Halliday)
Great Performances
(Self)
The Oil Fund
(USA Ambassadør)
BoJack Horseman
(Denise / McCaitlyn (voice))