The trap, she believes, is to play Del Lago as an out-and-out monster, though she often appears to be one, and she comes from a line of mid-20th century monsters created for the stage by writers such as Williams and Edward Albee. The greatest tragedy of humanity is our awareness of our own mortality, and ageing is the clock ticking.” She cites Del Lago’s lament: “I’ve been accused of having a death wish, but I think it’s life that I wish for, terribly, shamelessly, on any terms whatsoever.” I believe what he’s actually writing about is loss, and that’s a more profound thing to play. “There is an inevitability in ageing and to think one is going to bypass the effects is immature and shallow. While conceding that “the issue is of course still pertinent: in Hollywood, where are the roles for older women?”, Harden is adamant that the play has to be more than a whinge about wrinkles and thinning hair. “If you think about old Hollywood, Del Lago would have been doing her leading roles during her 20s and 30s and probably would have felt washed up in her late 40s,” she muses. Harden is 57 and performing, in Jonathan Kent’s Chichester festival theatre production, opposite her 35-year-old compatriot Brian J Smith. In the 1959 premiere, directed in New York by Elia Kazan, Del Lago was played by Geraldine Page, who was not yet 40 (and only a year older than Paul Newman, who partnered her as the much younger Chance). Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ( 4 episodes) as FBI Agent Dana Lewisĭesperate Measures as Dr.‘In Hollywood, where are the roles for older women?’ … Marcia Gay Harden Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian The Education of Max Bickford ( 22 episodes) as Andrea Haskell When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist' as Herselfįelicity: An American Girl Adventure as Mrs. The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler as Janina Krzyżanowska
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Grace Trevelyan-Greyįifty Shades Darker as Dr. The Oil Fund ( 2 episodes) as USA Ambassadørįifty Shades Freed as Dr. Reef Break ( 1 episode) as Betty Ann Miller The Morning Show ( 9 episodes) as Maggie Brener Money, Explained ( 1 episode) as Self - Narratorīarkskins ( 8 episodes) as Mathilde Geffard She has been nominated for an Emmy Award and the Screen Actors Guild Award two times. In 2009, Harden received a Tony Award for the Broadway play God of Carnage. She was also recently seen in Lakeshore Entertainment’s The Dead Girl, directed by Karen Moncrief and starring Toni Colette, Kerry Washington, Mary Steenburgen and Brittany Murphy. Harden’s recent credits include Lasse Hallstrom’s film, The Hoax, opposite Richard Gere, and The Walt Disney Company’s The Invisible, directed by David S Goyer. She has starred in a string of successful mainstream and independent movies, such as Space Cowboys (2000), Into the Wild (2007) and The Mist (2007). She received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Lee Krasner in Pollock (2000). Harden's breakthrough role was in The First Wives Club (1996) which was followed by several roles which gained her wider fame including the hit comedy Flubber (1997) and Meet Joe Black (1998). Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an American film and theatre actress.