Marcia Gay Harden Net Worth

Marcia Gay Harden's Quotes

• Until people get to know me they think I'm a dark, sensuous bitch.
• The only thing that seemed to me I could do in such a way that no one else could was acting. I thought, I can be a doctor, but there's going to be someone else who is just as good or better. I can be a lawyer, which I still sometimes think I would love to be, but I think there's someone who can do it just as good or better. So, being an actor, there will be people who can do it just as good or better, but I'll have my voice, and no one will have my voice.
• I was the girl who got off the bus wondering where Marty Scorsese was and why he wouldn't cast me in his next film.
• People have such false perceptions of how stardom really works. After I won the Oscar for Pollock (2000), some newspaper printed, 'She should get a million-dollar bump.' My sisters would write me, 'You're gonna get this million-dollar bump!' I thought, I'll open the shutters to my hotel, and Scorsese will be on the lawn, and the lawn will be made out of emeralds. I never made less money than right after the Oscar.
• [on her new role on The Newsroom (2012)] When I first got the role, Jeff Daniels said: 'I'll give you a little Aaron Sorkin tip: Come to set with your lines down for the rehearsal.' I said, 'What?' Usually the actor learns them during the day. But as an actress, I have never had a sigh of consternation when I get something complicated. You know how it is when you feel used in a good way. It's like that old song, 'keep on using me, 'til you use me up.' I just feel grateful.

Interesting Facts about Marcia Gay Harden

1. Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1990" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 42. [1990]
2. Her father, brother, and ex-husband are all named Thaddaeus.
3. Graduated from the University of Texas with a B.A. in theater (1980) and earned an MFA from the graduate theater program at New York University.
4. On December 15, 2003, her young nephew and niece were killed in a tragic fire. The deaths occurred when the Queens, New York, apartment, owned by her former sister-in-law, went up in flames after a burning candle set a sofa on fire. Her ex-sister-in-law also later died from injuries received in the fire.
5. She was the first University of Texas at Austin graduate to win an Oscar. She won for Best Supporting Actress in 2001 for Pollock (2000). The second UT grad to win was Renée Zellweger in 2004.
6. Achieved a degree of notoriety for making the rounds of the spring 2004 awards ceremonies while near-term with twins. When asked about all of the talk her hugely-pregnant figure was generating, she was quoted as saying that, when it comes to pregnancy, when you've got it, flaunt it.
7. Graduated from Surrattsville Sr. High in Clinton, Maryland (1976). Laura Wright also graduated from Surrattsville H.S., but in 1988.
8. Was nominated for Broadway's 1993 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for Tony Kushner's "Angels in America: Millennium Approaches."
9. When she first saw her future husband on the set of The Spitfire Grill (1996), she asked her co-star, Ellen Burstyn, her opinion of him. Ellen didn't think he was Marcia's type. Fortunately, Marcia didn't take her advice. Ellen became godmother of Marcia's three children.
10. MFA in Acting - New York University, Tisch School of the Arts (1988).
11. Inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame in March 2005 in Austin, Texas.
12. Since the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) started giving out competitive awards, in 1994, she and Christoph Waltz are only performers to win an Academy Award without being nominated for the same performance at the SAG.
13. She was awarded the 2009 Tony Award for Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for "God of Carnage" on Broadway in New York City.
14. Ms. Harden was honored as a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Texas at Austin in the fall of 2008.
15. A close friend of Shohreh Aghdashloo.
16. She was the 2010 Spring Commencement speaker at the University of Texas at Austin.
17. Filed for divorce from her husband Thaddaeus Scheel after 15 years of marriage [February 2012].
18. Gave birth to twins (her second and third child) at age 44, a son Hudson Scheel Harden and a daughter Julitta Dee Scheel on April 22, 2004. Children's father is her ex-husband, Thaddaeus Scheel.
19. Gave birth to her first child at age 39, a daughter Eulala Grace Scheel (aka Eulala Scheel) in September 1998. Child's father is her ex-husband, Thaddaeus Scheel.
20. Her daughter, Eulala Scheel, played her daughter in An American Girl Adventure (2005) and in Whip It (2009).