Best Actress in a supporting role

Marcia Gay Harden for Mystic River

Marcia Gay Harden Mystic River With an impressive screen debut in Miller's Crossing in 1990, this attractive, dark-haired actress' career took a positive direction. In 1991, Harden successfully portrayed a woman in Late for Dinner, who ages from her twenties to her fifties and demonstrated her flair for character work that would become her hallmark. After a slew of successful movies like Crush (1992), The Spitfire Grill (1996), and The First Wives Club (1996) among others, Marcia finally received the Best Supporting Actress Oscar at the 2000 Academy Awards. In Mystic River she plays a distraught wife whose fear of her husband's deep-seated emotional anguish leads her to suspect him of murder. Select Filmography 2004 Welcome to Mooseport 2003 Gaudi Afternoon Mystic River 2000 Pollock 1996 The First Wives Club 1993 Crush 1990 Miller's Crossing