She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. For her performance as artist Lee Krasner in the 2000 film Pollock. She followed this with roles in films including Used People (1992), The First Wives Club (1996), and Flubber (1997). She is one of five children, having three sisters and one brother.
Her mother, Beverly (Bushfield), was a homemaker, and her father, Thad Harold Harden, was in the military. Marcia Gay Harden was born on August 14, 1959, in La Jolla, California, the third of five children.
