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Notable film roles include the Disney sci-fi comedy Flubber (1997), a popular hit in which she co-starred with Robin Williams the supernatural drama Meet Joe Black (1998), playing the under-appreciated daughter of a tycoon ( Anthony Hopkins, co-starring Brad Pitt) Labor of Love (1998), a Lifetime television movie in which she starred with David Marshall Grant and Space Cowboys (2000), an all-star adventure-drama about aging astronauts. Throughout the 1990s, she continued to appear in films and television. In 1992, Harden played actress Ava Gardner alongside Philip Casnoff as Frank Sinatra in the made for TV miniseries Sinatra. Even so, at the time, living in New York City, she had to go back to doing catering jobs "because I didn't have any money". She appeared in the Coen brothers' Miller's Crossing (1990), a 1930s mobster drama in which she first gained wide exposure. She appeared in The Imagemaker (1986), her first movie screen role, in which she played a stage manager. Throughout the 1980s, she appeared in several television programs, including Simon & Simon, Kojak, and CBS Summer Playhouse. Harden's first film role was in a 1979 student-produced movie at the University of Texas.
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Harden's other notable television roles include Dr Leanne Rorish in the CBS medical drama Code Black and attorney Rebecca Halliday in the HBO Aaron Sorkin series The Newsroom. Harden was nominated for her second Primetime Emmy Award for her performance in the 2009 television film The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler. Her performance won her the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She returned to Broadway in 2009 as Veronica in God of Carnage. Harden made her Broadway debut in 1993, starring in Angels in America, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. Other notable film roles include American Gun (2005), and 2007's The Mist and Into the Wild. She earned another Academy Award nomination for her performance as Celeste Boyle in Mystic River (2003). For her performance as artist Lee Krasner in the 2000 film Pollock, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She followed this with roles in films including Used People (1992), The First Wives Club (1996), and Flubber (1997). Her film breakthrough was in the 1990 Coen brothers-directed Miller's Crossing. Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an American actress.