Marcia Gay Harden

Marcia Gay Harden is the third of the five sisters born in La Jolla on 14 August 1959. Beverly Bushfield, her mother was a housewife during the time that Thad Harold Harden served serving in the military. Family members moved often. As they travelled to Greece, she became interested in theater and attended Athens plays. Harden went on to study at American universities in Europe before returning to the US in 1983, to complete her studies at the University of Texas. She obtained an MFA at NYU and started her acting career. While she was in a film since 1986 in the largely unnoticed The Imagemaker (1986), her debut role in the mainstream that was a part of a TV movie work, was as a sultry femme fatale in"The Imagemaker," the Coen Brothers' cleverly offbeat tribute to the film of the same name, Miller's Crossing (1990). Harden's beautiful portrayal of Verna, an enigmatic, gorgeous mole, garnered positive critiques. Harden continued to work steadily in supporting roles, including playing Ava Gardner in Sinatra (1992), a television biopic about Frank Sinatra.