Marcia Gay Harden
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"Marcia Gay Harden" is an American film and theatre actress.

Harden's breakthrough role was in Miller's Crossing (1990) and then The First Wives Club (1996) which was followed by several roles which gained her wider fame including the comedy Flubber (film)/Flubber (1997) and Meet Joe Black (1998). She received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Lee Krasner in Pollock (film)/Pollock (2000). She has starred in a string of successful mainstream and independent movies, such as Space Cowboys (2000), Into the Wild (film)/Into the Wild (2007), and The Mist (film)/The Mist (2007), for which she won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Harden's recent credits include Lasse Hallström's film The Hoax, opposite Richard Gere, and Hollywood Pictures' The Invisible (film)/The Invisible, directed by David S Goyer. She was also recently seen in Lakeshore Entertainment's The Dead Girl, directed by Karen Moncrieff and starring Toni Colette, Kerry Washington, Mary Steenburgen, and Brittany Murphy. In 2009, Harden received a Tony Award for the Broadway play God of Carnage. She has also twice been nominated for an Emmy Award.

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I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.

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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.

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I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.

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In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.

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I was always the child who wore her emotions on her sleeve.

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In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.

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My dad wasn't thrilled at my wanting to act. He even offered to pay for a computer course if I'd change my mind.

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Brad works in a really different way because his craft is very different. His upbringing is very different. Brad came up through film and he was like, what, 10 when he did Thelma and Louise? He came up through film, so he has a whole different way of working. What I loved about Brad-and a lot of people won't do this-Brad is extremely generous. He'll try anything.

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You're over there in the corner either thinking about the dead dog or whatever, you're bringing up your personal life and you need the space, and then somebody throws you a joke. Especially if it's an emotional scene, you don't want the joke.

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