Marcia Gay Harden

Marcia Gay Harden is the fifth of her siblings who were born to La Jolla on 14 August 1959. Beverly Bushfield was her mother and Thad Harden who was serving in the military service, was her father. Family members moved often. While they were in Greece, she became interested with theater and went to Athens productions. Harden began her studies in Europe in American universities, and then returned to the US, where she completed her education at the University of Texas. In 1983, Harden earned her MFA in theatre at NYU. Miller's Crossing was the Coen Brothers humorous homage of the 1990 gangster film, Miller's Crossing. Although Harden had appeared in movies in the year 1986 (in the lesser-known The Imagemaker), she played a seductive woman in the film as her first role in the mainstream. Harden's stunning portrayal of Verna as a mysterious, seductive moll, received positive reviews. Harden kept working hard as a supporting actor, playing Ava Gardner in Sinatra (92) The biopic on television from Frank Sinatra.