Harden was nominated for her second Primetime Emmy Award for her performance in the 2009 television film The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler. Her performance won her the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She returned to Broadway in 2009 as Veronica in God of Carnage. Harden made her Broadway debut in 1993, starring in Angels in America, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. Her other notable film roles include American Gun (2005) and 2007’s The Mist and Into the Wild. She earned another Academy Award nomination for her performance as Celeste Boyle in Mystic River (2003). For her performance as artist Lee Krasner in the 2000 film Pollock, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She followed this with roles in films including Used People (1992), The First Wives Club (1996), and Flubber (1997). Her film breakthrough was in the 1990 Coen brothers-directed Miller’s Crossing. Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an American actress.
