Marcia Gay Harden Biography

Marcia Gay Harden (born one of five children to a Navy family on August 17, 1959 in La Jolla, California) is an Oscar-winning American actress. She graduated from Surrattsville High School in Clinton, Maryland in 1976. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.A. in theatre and earned an MFA from the graduate theatre program of New York University. She is married to Thaddaeus Scheel.

A two-time Oscar nominee, she first appeared on Broadway in Tony Kushner's Angels in America in 1993 and has since appeared in the films Meet Joe Black (1998), Pollock (2000), (for which she received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress) and Mystic River (2003) (for which she received a second Oscar nomination).
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Her niece, Audrey Harden (1993-December 16, 2003), died in Astoria, New York of burns from a house fire, along with her nephew and ex-sister-in-law.

Harden is married to Thaddaeus Scheel, with whom she worked on The Spitfire Grill (1996), and the couple have three children: a daughter, Eulala Grace Scheel, and twins Julitta Dee Scheel and Hudson Harden Scheel.

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