She has injected her blend of warmth and smooth toughness to recent films like Grandma and TV shows such as The Newsroom, How to Get Away With Murder and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Those drawbacks seem to have had minimal impact on Harden during the last few years, as she's ridden a steady flow of featured roles in several high-profile projects on stage and screen. 'Suddenly the parts you're offered and the money become smaller. 'It's disastrous on a professional level,' the actress said in 2003, a few years after winning a supporting actress Oscar for her portrayal of artist Lee Krasner, the wife of troubled painter Jackson Pollock, in Ed Harris' Pollock. Marcia Gay Harden once described winning an Oscar as a double-edged sword: Although it is a wonderful honour, it does have its pitfalls. Marcia Gay Harden heads a large ensemble cast on the US medical drama Code Black.
