Marcia Gay Harden was born August 14th, 1959 in La Jolla, California. She is an Oscar award winning Best Actress in a Supporting Role in Pollock (2000), nominated a second time for her supporting role in Mystic River (2003). Hardens first film credit is a Hollywood short, a 23 minute story of a victim of a date rape called Not Only Strangers (1979). It s an interesting case of one star rising, and another being eclipsed. Hardens first movie was the last directed by Hollywood legend Edward Dmytryk, one of the Ten Blacklisted Directors who went to jail during Senator McCarthys Red Scare. Dmytryk was the embodiment of Hollywoods Golden Age of film history, starting as an editor in the 1930s to become a cinematic giant who directed work like The Caine Mutiny (1954) staring Humphrey Bogart and nominated for 7 Oscars, Raintree County (1957) starring Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift, and the Young Lions (1958) starring Marlon Brando, Dean Martin, and an all around impressive cast which received 3 Oscar nominations. Hardens brush with Hollywood history has been followed by 66 film and t.v. credits of her own and stage appearances starting with her Broadway debut in a 1993 production of Tony Kushners Pulitzer Prize Winning play, Angels in America. Harden is married to Thaddaeus Scheel, the couple have 3 children.
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