In this section, you will find transcripts of articles about and interviews with Marcia
from various magazine sources. Make your selection.
Parade Magazine
Issue: August 19,2010
Title: Marcia Gay Harden: 'Motherhood Is a Glorious Hijacking'
With the ides of August quickly slipping by and school buses preparing to restart their engines for the new semester, I
spoke with Oscar and Tony winner Marcia Gay Harden about balancing fame and family, the pressures faced by kids today,
the shortcomings of public education -- and a cool chance for parents to win their kids scholarship money and tickets to
the American Music Awards simply by sharing how they've coped with, well, tween-teen aggravation. The Star Ledger
Issue: April 29, 2009
Title: Harden hops to it in stage role
You may think you know Marcia Gay Harden, from her award-winning movie performances in
films such as Pollock and Mystic River, or TV series like Damages and Law & Order: Special
Victims Unit, but unless you've spent some time backstage with her before a performance of
her current Broadway hit, God of Carnage, you don't have any idea what the lady is like
at all. Guideposts Magazine
Issue: March 2008
Title: My Best Role Ever
Look up “struggling young actress” in the dictionary and you might see a picture of me,
circa 1982. Rushing to open casting calls in between waiting tables, always worried about
how to make the rent. Just about the only acting cliché I wasn’t fulfilling at the time
was living in New York Orange Coast Magazine
Issue: November 2007
Title: A Flair for the Dramatic
One moment in Germany is all it took for Marcia Gay Harden to fling herself
into acting. When Marcia Gay Harden looks back on her first year of college, her mind is
flooded with memories of spending long afternoons and evenings sitting just steps from
the Parthenon in Greece. Entertainment Weekly
Issue: February 21, 2001
Title: Marcia Gay Harden
You encounter at least a dozen Lee Krasners in the two-hour span of Pollock. They're all
played by Marcia Gay Harden, but she keeps exploring Krasner - the wife of painter Jackson
Pollock - and finding fresh ways to illuminate her.