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
So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other people.
Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that time.
I have a theory that there's almost this primal viewpoint on women in the business, that once you're beyond childbearing age, you are perceived as nonthreatening, nonsexual, noncastable. Sure, I already knew it before I got into it. I just didn't know I'd end up making my living from low-budget, independent films.
You have to make sure that you and your child are connecting, and it does help when they are looking directly into your eyes.
I've had an amazing career and amazing blessings. But I'm an everyday person, and I have lived an everyday life, and I drive an everyday car.
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.
Working on 'King Of Texas' was a life experience for me.
There are certainly a billion, ker-trillion girls out there more attractive than I am.
Back in the days of Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis, beauty wasn't the be-all and end-all it is today.
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.
You want people - I want people to relate to me as a character. I want them to go, 'That could have been me,' or, 'I know someone like that.'
You've got to understand what makes the character human.
Anybody who is really walking with the Lord is embracing the foibles and the beauties and the differences of humanity, regardless of race, color, creed, economic stature and sexual proclivity, whatever. You embrace the beauty of humanity and not be exacting and belittling about the differences.
A New York casting director, who shall remain nameless, once said to me, 'Marcia, you have what I call the flaring-nostril look, and until you get something done about it, you will never, ever work.'