Leave it to Harden to shake up “The Newsroom.” She joined the HBO series’s second season in 2013 as Rebecca Halliday, a fierce litigator who was originally set to be played by Rosemarie DeWitt. She better get un-messed up in a hurry because she’s a character witness, and she looks like the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.” On Monday May 14, she will discuss the project with journalist Lisa Napoli at Santa Monica’s Ann and Jerry Moss Theatre as part of Live Talks Los Angeles.Īhead of the event, let’s looks back at just a handful of Harden’s best onscreen one-liners.ġ. Between her performances as the artist Lee Krasner in the 2000 biopic “Pollock,” the agoraphobic Harper Pitt in the original Broadway staging of “Angels in America,” and the emergency room physician Leanne Rorish in her current CBS series “Code Black,” just to name a few, she exudes a signature excellence with every character she plays.īut the latest role for the Oscar and Tony winner, who is also a two-time Emmy nominee, is author, as the actor has penned her memoir “The Seasons of My Mother.” In the book, she uses the floral imagery and Ikebana art to depict the unique creative bond that she has had with her mother throughout the years - and how, together, they are facing her mother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. Marcia Gay Harden can’t help but showcase her mastery of every acting medium.
Marcia Gay Harden (Photographed by Larsen & Talbert)
