She has lent a blend of warmth and smooth toughness to recent films ( Grandma) and series ( The Newsroom, How To Get Away With Murder and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit). Such drawbacks seem to have had minimal effect on Harden during the past few years, as she has ridden a steady flow of featured roles in high-profile projects onstage and on-screen. “Suddenly, the parts you’re offered and the money become smaller. “It’s disastrous on a professional level,” the actress said in 2003, a few years after nabbing a supporting-actress Academy Award for her portrayal of artist Lee Krasner, the wife of troubled painter Jackson Pollock, in Pollock. LOS ANGELES - The winning of an Oscar, Marcia Gay Harden once said, is a double-edged sword.
