She can assume any role and deliver an award-worthy performance. Throughout her career, Harden has proved her versatility. Today, she plays the brilliant emergency room doctor Leanne Rorish on the CBS medical drama, Code Black. Nine years later she snagged a Tony for her role in the Broadway hit God of Carnage. In 2000, she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as Lee Krasner, in Pollock, a biopic about the painter Jackson Pollock.
In 1990, Marcia Gay Harden made her big screen debut as Verna Bernbaum in the Coen brothers' black comedy Miller's Crossing.
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