Scroll down to hear the Oscar-winning actress reminisce about some of her more memorable television stints, starting with the time she was asked to channel “the most beautiful woman in the world.
In it, she plays a tough, pioneer widow named Mathilde who’s changing societal norms in the perilous wilds of New France. Harden’s latest series, the historical drama Barkskins, airs Mondays at 9/8c on Nat Geo. She’s been an aloof-and-fabulous Trophy Wife predecessor, a take-no-bull Code Black doctor and one very surprising SVU FBI agent. She’s played a conflicted Chicago Hope patient and a couple of notable legal eagles. Since then, the in-demand actress has appeared in more than 30 TV movies and series, not to mention several feature films. “I remember climbing a step - that’s all I remember - in a short skirt on Kojak and thinking, ‘God, I hope they can’t see my panties.'” She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Tony Award. “I was playing a character, a young girl,” she tells TVLine, laughing. Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an American actress. First TV roles can leave an indelible mark on a young actor, imprinting themselves in detail and serving as a seminal reminder of how far one has come in one’s career.Īnd then there’s 1990’s Kojak: None So Blind, a TV movie that Marcia Gay Harden … kinda recalls?
