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Is Marcia Gay Harden Gay? Did She Ever Reveal It?

Actress Marcia Gay Harden was born in the United States on August 14, 1959. She has received honors like an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards as well as a Critics’ Choice Movie Award.

California native Harden began her acting career in television shows throughout the 1980s. She was born in La Jolla. She made her cinematic debut in 1986, and Miller’s Crossing, which was directed by the Coen brothers and debuted in 1990, was her big break. She was recognized with the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2000’s historical picture Pollock for her depiction of artist Lee Krasner. She was nominated for an additional Academy Award for her portrayal of Celeste Boyle in the drama Mystic River (2003). The First Wives Club (1996), Flubber (1997), Space Cowboys (2000), Mona Lisa Smile (2003), and the Fifty Shades trilogy are some of her other well-known film credits. 

Is Marcia Gay Harden Gay?

No, she is not gay. Together with prop maker Thaddaeus Scheel, whom Harden married in 1996, she worked on The Spitfire Grill. They have two children: September 1998-born Eulala Grace Scheel and the twins Julitta Dee and Hudson Harden Scheel. 2004-04-22 (birthdate). In February 2012, Harden filed for divorce from Scheel.

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Marcia Gay Harden’s Personal Life

Is Marcia Gay Harden Gay?

The daughter of Texas natives Beverly Harden (née Bushfield), a homemaker, and Thad Harold Harden (1932-2002), a United States Navy officer, Harden was born in La Jolla, California. She has a brother and three sisters.

Thaddeus is the same name as Harden’s father, her ex-husband, and her brother. Due to her father’s work, Harden’s family frequently relocated, settling in Japan, Germany, Greece, California, and Maryland.

In 1976, Harden completed his education at Clinton, Maryland’s Surrattsville High School. In 1980, she graduated from the University of Texas in Austin with a Bachelor of Arts in theatre. In 1988, Harden graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

Harden formerly had a home in the Catskills and a townhouse in Harlem. In 2012, she disposed of the Harlem home.  As an actor in the film Angels in America, Harden picked up pottery again after learning how to do it in high school.

Harden does ikebana, a style of Japanese flower arrangement. Her mother studied it when they lived in Japan. She conducted a quick tutorial on The Martha Stewart Show in 2007 and showcased some of her family’s artistic creations. The seasons of My Mother: A Memoir of Love, Family, and Flowers were released in May 2018. The book describes the relationship between a mother and daughter over time and how they cope with their greatest challenge to date—her mother’s Alzheimer’s illness. To depict the many seasons of her mother’s life, Harden designed ikebana, particularly for this book.

Marcia Gay Harden’s Career

In 1979, University of Texas students developed a movie in which Harden played his first acting part. She had multiple television appearances throughout the 1980s, including ones in Simon & Simon, Kojak, and CBS Summer Playhouse. Her first on-screen appearance was in The Imagemaker (1986) when she portrayed a stage manager. She made her big screen debut in Miller’s Crossing (1990), a 1930s mafia thriller by the Coen brothers. Nevertheless, she was forced to return to working as a caterer at the time while residing in New York City “because I didn’t have any money.” 

In 1993, Harden made his Broadway debut playing Harper Pitt (among other characters) in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America. She won accolades from critics for the part and a Tony Award nomination (Best Featured Actress in a Play).

In the 1992 made-for-TV miniseries Sinatra, Harden portrayed actress Ava Gardner with Philip Casnoff as Frank Sinatra. She continued to make appearances in movies and television shows throughout the 1990s. The supernatural drama Meet Joe Black (1998), in which she portrayed the underappreciated daughter of a tycoon (Anthony Hopkins, co-starring Brad Pitt); Labor of Love (1998), a Lifetime television film in which she co-starred with David Marshall Grant; and Space Cowboys (2000), an all-star adventure-drama about aging astronauts, are some of her notable film roles. She also co-starred with Robin Williams in the Disney sci-fi comedy Flub. As Lee Krasner in the biographical movie Pollock, Harden received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2000. In 2004, she was nominated for an additional Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in recognition of her work in the mystery/crime thriller Mystic River.

In the renowned criminal drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode “Raw,” Harden appeared as FBI undercover agent Dana Lewis acting as a white supremacist. Harden was nominated for her first Emmy Award for best guest actress in a drama series in 2007 for this performance. She played a rape victim once more in the series’ eighth season opener and once more in the 12th season episode “Penetration.”

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