Marcia Gay Harden

Marcia Gay Harden

Actor (b. 1959)
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The ThumbScore for Marcia Gay Harden (67.7%) is the average audience approval rating across 31 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Marcia's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

31
Movies
67.7%
Avg ThumbScore
Drama
Top Genre

Audiences rate Marcia Gay Harden’s films lower than 83% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

Free to watch now (26 Oct): Into the Wild (Kanopy, Hoopla) · Detachment (Roku Channel, The CW, Fandango at Home, Pluto TV, Plex, Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla, Fawesome) · The Mist (The CW, Prime Video (free), Xumo Play, Kanopy, Fawesome) · Mona Lisa Smile (Hoopla, Kanopy) · Mystic River (Tubi) · The Invisible (Hoopla) and 10 more.

Frequent Collaborators

Clint Eastwood (3)Callum Keith Rennie (2)Sean Penn (2)Bryan Cranston (2)Drew Barrymore (2)

Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an American film and stage actress. She is the recipient of many accolades including an Academy Award and a Tony Award, in addition to nominations for a Critics' Choice Movie Award and three Primetime Emmy Awards. She began her acting career appearing in television programs throughout the 1980s. In 1986, she appeared in her first film role, with her breakthrough coming in the 1990 Coen brothers-directed Miller's Crossing. Her next notable film credits include The First Wives Club (1996), Flubber (1997), and Space Cowboys (2000). She received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Lee Krasner in Pollock (2000). She had a supporting role in Mona Lisa Smile (2003). She received a second Academy Award nomination for her performance as Celeste Boyle in the drama film Mystic River (2003).

She appeared in several 2007 films, including Sean Penn's Into the Wild and Frank Darabont's The Mist, based on the novella by Stephen King. Also in 2007, she shared top billing with Kevin Bacon in Rails & Ties, the directorial debut of Alison Eastwood. Harden played a woman who has a mastectomy in Home (2008). (Her character in Rails & Ties also had a mastectomy.) One scene required her to bare her breasts, with the missing breast removed using computer-generated imagery. In Home, her co-stars include her daughter, Eulala Scheel. In 2009, she had quite a busy year. She appeared as a regular on the FX series Damages as a shrewd corporate attorney opposite Glenn Close and William Hurt. She co-starred in the films Whip It, and The Maiden Heist. She returned to Broadway in Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage, co-starring with James Gandolfini, Hope Davis and Jeff Daniels.

Born 1959-08-14 in La Jolla, California, USA.

On ThumbScore, Marcia Gay Harden appears in 31 films with an average audience score of 67.7%, most frequently in the Drama genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Marcia Gay Harden movie, ranked by audience score

Into the Wild
Into the Wild
2007
👍 84%
Detachment
Detachment
2011
👍 82%
The Mist
The Mist
2007
👍 82%
Meet Joe Black
Meet Joe Black
1998
👍 82%
Mona Lisa Smile
Mona Lisa Smile
2003
👍 81%
Mystic River
Mystic River
2003
👍 80%
Space Cowboys
Space Cowboys
2000
👍 78%
The Invisible
The Invisible
2007
👍 76%
Fifty Shades of Grey
Fifty Shades of Grey
2015
👍 72%
Flubber
Flubber
1997
👍 72%
Magic in the Moonlight
Magic in the Moonlight
2014
👍 72%
Pollock
Pollock
2000
👍 72%
Knox Goes Away
Knox Goes Away
2024
👍 70%
The Daytrippers
The Daytrippers
1997
👍 69%
Desperate Measures
Desperate Measures
1998
👍 68%
Miller's Crossing
Miller's Crossing
1990
👍 67%
Parkland
Parkland
2013
👍 67%
Grandma
Grandma
2015
👍 67%
The Hoax
The Hoax
2006
👍 67%
Whip It
Whip It
2009
👍 66%
Bad News Bears
Bad News Bears
2005
👍 65%
The Maiden Heist
The Maiden Heist
2009
👍 62%
The Dead Girl
The Dead Girl
2006
👍 62%
Point Blank
Point Blank
2019
👍 60%
Spy Hard
Spy Hard
1996
👍 60%
Elsa & Fred
Elsa & Fred
2014
👍 60%
Confess, Fletch
Confess, Fletch
2022
👍 60%
American Dreamz
American Dreamz
2006
👍 59%
Welcome to Mooseport
Welcome to Mooseport
2004
👍 55%
Get a Job
Get a Job
2016
👍 47%
The Dreadful
The Dreadful
2026
👍 35%