Marcia Gay Harden

Marcia Gay Harden is an American actress. Her film breakthrough was in the 1990 film Miller's Crossing directed by the Coen brothers. She known for her roles in films including Used People (1992), The First Wives Club (1996), and Flubber (1997). For her performance as artist Lee Krasner in the 2000 film Pollock, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. For Netflix she stars as Principal Shelly in the comedy-drama film Moxie directed by Amy Poehler.

Biography
She was born on August 14, 1959, in La Jolla, California, the third of five children. In 1976, Harden graduated from Surrattsville High School in Clinton, Maryland. In 1980, she received a bachelor of arts in theatre from the University of Texas at Austin. In 1988, Harden received a master of fine arts from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

Harden's first film role was in a 1979 student-produced movie at the University of Texas. Throughout the 1980s, she appeared in several television programs.

Although she had acted in a movie as early as 1986, in the little-known The Imagemaker (1986), her first mainstream role, coming alongside some TV movie work, was as a sultry femme fatale in the Coen Brothers' cleverly offbeat homage to the gangster movie, Miller's Crossing (1990). Harden received good reviews for her sultry performance as Verna, a seductive, trouble-making moll.

Movies

 * Point Blank
 * Moxie