Marcia Gay Harden

Marcia Gay Harden was born on the 14th of August 1959 in La Jolla, California, the third of five children. Her mother, Beverly (Bushfield) she was a domestic worker, and her father Thad Harold Harden, was a soldier. They moved a lotShe first began to be interested with theatre when the family was in Greece and had attended plays in Athens. Harden was a student at American universities across Europe, then returned to the US in 1983 and completed her studies at the University of Texas. She obtained an MFA at NYU and began her career as an actor. Even though she had appeared in a movie from 1986 in the largely unnoticed The Imagemaker (1986), her debut role in the mainstream in a television film roles, was the sultry female fatale of the Coen Brothers' cleverly offbeat tribute to the film of the same name, Miller's Crossing (1990). Harden's gorgeous portrayal as Verna as a mysterious, gorgeous mole, garnered positive critiques. Harden worked hard as a support actor as Ava Gardner in Sinatra (92) The biopic on television of Frank Sinatra.