Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Hardenis an American actress. Her film breakthrough was in the 1990 Coen brothers-directed Miller's Crossing. She followed this with roles in films including Used People, The First Wives Club, and Flubber. For her performance as artist Lee Krasner in the 2000 film Pollock, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She earned another Academy Award nomination for her performance as Celeste Boyle in Mystic River. Other notable film roles include American Gun, and 2007's The Mist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth14 August 1959
CountryUnited States of America
Oh, I just love being a character actress. You have a lot of fun, and not only that, you save tons on cosmetic surgery because you never have to have liposuction.
The important thing is that when you correct your children, they see what they've done wrong and why you're upset.
You know what I miss? I miss myself, that time to just do things for myself.
Whether you win or not, the night the Oscars are over, the curtain goes down and you go back to the grind. Period.
I loved playing Anne Bancroft, because she was so wonderfully arch.
Harlem is a very family-oriented neighborhood, and it always has been.
With any tween, you have issues, from what they are going to wear to school, to how do you get them to speak politely, to how regularly they lose their contact lenses.
You have to make sure that you and your child are connecting, and it does help when they are looking directly into your eyes.
The people who stood out in the Sandy Hook incident, the heroes, were the normal, ordinary people who went to save those children.
Working on 'King Of Texas' was a life experience for me.
I'm not a big fan of mediocre.
It's hard to balance work and family.
In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.
All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to school taking lessons, and all those years of being a nobody following a dream-and now here it is.