In it, she plays a tough, pioneer widow named Mathilde who’s changing societal norms in the perilous wilds of New France. Harden played actress Ava Gardner alongside Philip Casnoff as Frank Sinatra in the 1992 made-for-TV miniseries Sinatra. The role earned her critical acclaim and she received a Tony Award nomination ( Best Featured Actress in a Play ). Harden’s latest series, the historical drama Barkskins, airs Mondays at 9/8c on Nat Geo. Harden debuted on Broadway in the role of Harper Pitt (and others) in Tony Kushner 's Angels in America in 1993.
She’s been an aloof-and-fabulous Trophy Wife predecessor, a take-no-bull Code Black doctor and one very surprising SVU FBI agent. Earlier this year, Marcia finished production on If I Were You, co-starring Aidan Quinn and Valerie Mahaffey. Marcia Gay Harden (© Joseph Marzullo/WENN Tony and Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden and actress Gloria Reuben will return to NBCs Law & Order: SVU this season in guest-starring roles. Additionally, Marcia wrapped Lifetime’s The Amanda Knox Story, portraying Amanda’s mother, Edda Mellas, opposite Hayden Panettierre. She’s played a conflicted Chicago Hope patient and a couple of notable legal eagles. She also recently reprised her Emmy Award nominated role on NBC’s Law and Order: SVU. Her breakthrough role was in the 1990 film Millers Crossing this was followed by several roles which increased her profile, including The First Wives Club, Flubber, and Meet Joe Black. Since then, the in-demand actress has appeared in more than 30 TV movies and series, not to mention several feature films. Marcia Gay Harden (born Augin La Jolla, California) is an Oscar-winning American film, television, and theatre actress.
“I remember climbing a step - that’s all I remember - in a short skirt on Kojak and thinking, ‘God, I hope they can’t see my panties.'” “I was playing a character, a young girl,” she tells TVLine, laughing.
First TV roles can leave an indelible mark on a young actor, imprinting themselves in detail and serving as a seminal reminder of how far one has come in one’s career.Īnd then there’s 1990’s Kojak: None So Blind, a TV movie that Marcia Gay Harden … kinda recalls? News Marcia Gay Harden to Again Guest Star on SVU Tony and Academy Award-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden will reprise her Emmy-nominated guest role of.