For her performance as artist Lee Krasner in the 2000 film Pollock, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
She known for her roles in films including Used People (1992), The First Wives Club (1996), and Flubber (1997). Her film breakthrough was in the 1990 film Miller's Crossing directed by the Coen brothers. Harden received good reviews for her sultry performance as Verna, a seductive, trouble-making moll. Marcia Gay Harden is an American actress. Throughout the 1980s, she appeared in several television programs.Īlthough 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's first film role was in a 1979 student-produced movie at the University of Texas. In 1988, Harden received a master of fine arts from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. In 1980, she received a bachelor of arts in theatre from the University of Texas at Austin. In 1976, Harden graduated from Surrattsville High School in Clinton, Maryland. She was born on August 14, 1959, in La Jolla, California, the third of five children.
