Marcia Gay Harden in POLLOCK

Marcia Gay-Harden, Best Supporting Actress 2000: MovieActors.com

POLLOCK (R - language and brief sexuality) Marcia Gay-Harden - Won her Best Supporting Actress Oscar portraying Lee Krasner, an artist who put her career on hold to be abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock's "wife, companion, lover, champion, and in essence, caretaker," as he was quite a handful, with harmful bad habits like alcohol.

About Marcia Gay Harden (1959- )

Marcia Gay Harden was born on August 14, 1959 in LaJolla, California.

Sometimes Marcia Gay Harden is creditied as Gay Harden or Marsha Gay Harden. After attending a play in Athens Marcia Gay Harden became interested in the theater.

MILLER'S CROSSING was Marcia Gay Harden's first mainstream role,as a sultry femme fatale in the Coen Brothers' cleverly offbeat homage to the gangster movie.

Marcia Gay Harden was listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1990" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 42. ANGELS IN AMERICA in 1993 Marcia Gay Harden was part of the Broadway cast, playing Harper, the alienated wife of a closeted gay man. Harden won acclaim for her work, including a Tony award nomination.

In 2000, with Ed Harris's POLLOCK, Marcia Gay Harden played Lee Krasner, an artist and long-suffering wife of Jackson Pollock. Harden's performance was deeply moving and unforgettable, and earned her the Oscar and New York Film Critic's Circle awards for best supporting actress. The 2001 Oscar win for POLLOCK made Marcia Gay Harden the first University of Texas at Austin graduate to win an Oscar.

In 2003 Marcia Gay Harden earned an Oscar-nomination, for her supporting role in Clint Eastwood's MYSTIC RIVER.

Marcia Gay Harden's other notable credits include...

THE IMAGE MAKER
MILLER'S CROSSING
LATE FOR DINNER
CRUSH
THE FIRST WIVES CLUB
SPY HARD
FLUBBER
DESPERATE MEASURES
MEET JOE BLACK
CURTAIN CALL
SPACE COWBOYS
POLLOCK
GAUDI AFTERNOON
MYSTIC RIVER
MONA LISA SMILE
JUST LIKE MONA
WELCOME TO MOOSEPORT
BAD NEWS BEARS
AMERICAN GUN
AMERICAN DREAMZ
THE HOAX
CANVAS
THE DEAD GIRL
THE INVISIBLE
INTO THE WILD
RAILS & TIES
THE MIST

Harden's television credits include:

"CHICAGO HOPE" - Episode # 1.18
"HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET" - Episode # 4.6
"THE EDUCATION OF MAX BICKFORD" (TV series)
"GUILTY HEARTS" - TV Miniseries

Marcia Gay Harden in SPACE COWBOYS (2000)

Marcia Gay Harden in POLLOCK (2000)