Marcia Gay Harden's biography

Marcia Gay Harden is 63 years old actor born at La Jolla. She was born on Friday 14th of August 1959. According to year of birth 1959 she belongs to Boomers. Birthday on 14th of August means she is Leo. As sign in itself indicates “Lion” or “King”, hence people born under Leo sign are considered to be leaders in every aspects of life. They are royal in nature.

She is native english speaker. She is citizen of United States of America. Her primary profession is to be actor. You can know her also as stage actor, television actor. She is recently known as film actor. She received Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Pollock in 1999

Marcia Gay Harden's family

Marcia Gay Harden's ex spouse

Thaddaeus Scheel

Marcia Gay Harden and Thaddaeus Scheel have been together since 1996 for 16 years.

Marcia Gay Harden's schools

We found 3 schools She attended. Complete list of schools: University of Texas at Austin, New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Surrattsville High School.

Detailed informations about her schools

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.

Marcia Gay Harden's career

Her main focus is to be actor. You could see her also in Pollock.

Awards and competitions

Marcia Gay Harden's Awards

Was nominated for Broadway's 1993 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for Tony Kushner's "Angels in America: Millennium Approaches."
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.
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.
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.
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.

Marcia Gay Harden's Nominations

She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for work Mystic River in 2003
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for work Pollock in 2001

What Marcia Gay Harden has done for a first time

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 RenÃ©e Zellweger in 2004.
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.
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.

Marcia Gay Harden's quotes

Until people get to know me they think I'm a dark, sensuous bitch.
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.
Well, we're actors. So I would absolutely agree that we all have a kind of a personality disorder.
Television is a wide world of opportunity for women in their 30s, 40s, 50s, thank God. In any film, there are 10 male roles for 1 female role, especially in the action films. They're heavy with the guys.
[2003 interview] The Oscar is disastrous on a professional level. Suddenly the parts you're offered become smaller and the money less. There's no logic to it.
[when she faced off against Viola Davis on the hit ABC series, How to Get Away with Murder (2014)] "I took [Viola] down and now I'm here!" [at Code Black (2015)]
[but what exactly does "code black" mean?] "That's the moment in the emergency room when there are more patients than there are doctors and beds to take care of them,"
[on working on Code Black (2015)] "It is a glorious organized chaos for the doctors and it is super exciting,"
[on gaining knowledge for Code Black (2015)] "It's real, it's raw and the amount of knowledge that they want us to acquire so that it feels second nature so that it feels authentic, is a lot,"
[on the real Code Black (2015) hospital] I've never seen anything like that Emergency room!
[the focus being on more human elements in Code Black (2015)] "That is what I was brought up to believe. I get the cutting-edge dramas. I love it. But to spend these kind of hours and devote this kind of energy, I do want to be behind those other values."
[on working on Code Black (2015)] "There are four residents [working] over our shoulders who we are teaching, and it's about the life in this emergency room, based on a real emergency room."
[on Code Black (2015)] "It is a beautiful, beautiful show,"
[When asked how she juggles career and family] My husband is great, and my mother flies in and helps when I'm on location.
[on Code Black (2015)] You get involved in the lives of not just the patients coming in, but also in the lives of the doctors.
[on winning the Oscar despite low pre-award expectations] Vegas had me at 12-to-1 odds. I sure do wish I had bet on myself and made a little money.
[on 2019] I'm a single, working mom with three kids to support. And what I do is work. I'm not super picky. I used to be more picky.
Retrospect is not my best friend. I think it's a leash around your neck that keeps tugging you back
[when she faced off against Viola Davis on the hit ABC series, How to Get Away with Murder (2014)] I took [Viola] down and now I'm here! [at Code Black (2015)]
[on Code Black (2015)] It's down and dirty [she declared with a triumphant smile]
[on working on Code Black (2015)] It is a glorious organized chaos for the doctors and it is super exciting.
[the focus being on more human elements in Code Black (2015)] That is what I was brought up to believe. I get the cutting-edge dramas. I love it. But to spend these kind of hours and devote this kind of energy, I do want to be behind those other values.
[on gaining knowledge for Code Black (2015)] It's real, it's raw and the amount of knowledge that they want us to acquire so that it feels second nature so that it feels authentic, is a lot.
[on working on Code Black (2015)] There are four residents [working] over our shoulders who we are teaching, and it's about the life in this emergency room, based on a real emergency room.
[on what exactly does "code black" mean?] That's the moment in the emergency room when there are more patients than there are doctors and beds to take care of them.

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