Marcia Gay Harden joins "Damages" Posted: 2008-07-15 The star of FX's Damages, Glenn Close, is set to be joined by a fellow multi-awarded actress in the person of Marcia Gay Harden to bolster the already stellar lineup for its coming season. If we backtrack to the second week of June, it was reported that another Oscar-winner William Hurt will play a client of Patty Hewes (Close). Harden will play a powerful attorney who opposes Hewes on a case. In what appears like a trend of veteran actors transitioning to guest starring roles on television series, Harden also guest-starred on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit last year and actually won an Emmy nomination for the role. The critically acclaimed series, which is due to return early in 2009, features a lawyer torn between the demands of her job and her family, as a mother and a wife. Obviously, that is an understatement as it usually gets even more complicated than that. Marcia Gay Harden to star in Drew Barrymore's "Whip it" Posted: 2008-07-06 Marcia Gay Harden, Kristen Wiig, Juliette Lewis and Zoe Bell are mixing it up with Ellen Page and Drew Barrymore in the roller ring. Barrymore will play Page's teammate in Mandate Pictures' roller derby comedy "Whip it!" then skate behind the camera between takes to make her feature directorial debut. Harden plays an overbearing ex-beauty queen who would rather see her daughter, Bliss (Page), in pageants than skates. Wiig (Saturday Night Live) plays Bliss' rowdy mentor, Malice in Wonderland. Lewis is Dinah Might, the star of Austin's top team. Bell plays a medical technician moonlighting as derby star Bloody Holly. The film begins shooting this summer in Michigan and Texas. Marcia drawn to complex chiller Posted: 2008-07-06 "The Mist" has released UK theaters on July 4 (half a year after its US release) and the Metro Magazine has posted an article on Marcia with some interesting quotes: While Marcia Gay Harden always wanted to be in a scream movie, she reveals it had to be an intelligent one - as befits her status as a quirky, independent actress. "I didn't want to be in a film where you're screaming, running into the car, and there's mud and blood splattered on you," she says. In The Mist, based on the Stephen King novel, the 48-year-old plays Mrs Carmody, a religious woman who tries to convince her neighbours that Armageddon is beginning when a mysterious mist surrounds their town. Marcia says she was instantly drawn to this complex character. "She had real idiosyncrasies that I thought would be fun to play. "I didn't want you to dismiss her, I wanted you to feel like you knew her, or that you even had that potential to adopt some of her way of thinking. "Honestly, you tell me, if there are monsters outside the window, and man-eating bugs, and the world seemed to be at an end in mist, and you couldn't communicate with anybody, would you really sit there and go, 'Hmmm, it must be a scientific experiment?'" She notes: "I don't think so. I think you'd go, 'It's the end of the world.' And that's what she believes - I don't think that's so strange."