Age: 66
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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. All three actors were nominated for a Tony Award; Harden won Best Actress in a Play. She received her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her role as FBI Special Agent Dana Lewis in the crime drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and earned a second Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her performance as Janina Krzyżanowska in the television film The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009). She reunited with her former Broadway co-star Jeff Daniels as a new cast member on HBO's series The Newsroom in 2013. In 2015, she had a starring role in the medical drama Code Black. Her other notable television credits include ABC's How to Get Away with Murder and the Apple TV+ series The Morning Show. She played Christian Grey's mother, Grace Trevelyan Grey, in the Fifty Shades film series from 2015 to 2018. She stars in the 2022 CBS drama So Help Me Todd.
Marcia Gay Harden
Elaine Parker
for Elaine Parker in A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Master (2008)
Suggested by nightmare1398
A year after seemingly defeating dream demon Freddy Krueger, the three remaining Dream Warriors, Kristen Parker, Roland Kincaid and Joey Crusel, are released from Westin Hills, and sent back to their families in Springwood to live normal lives and attend high school again. While Kincaid and Joey are treated as outcasts, Kristen becomes popular with a new set of friends and a boyfriend named Rick, which puts a divide between the three of them. Kristen begins having dreams that Freddy is returning to which Kincaid and Joey refuse to believe. One night while dreaming, Kincaid discovers Freddy has returned and has his sights on seeking revenge against them and going after their new friends. But Kristen's friend Alice Johnson, a shy daydreamer and Rick's sister, may be the key to stopping Freddy, once and for all as everytime he kills her friends, she can adapt their abilities and might be the gifted power to defeat Freddy as she tries to live her life in peace with her alcohol father and finding who she is through reflections.
