Marcia completed her education at Clinton’s Surrattsville High School, where she earned her high school diploma in 1976. Her mother was a homemaker, while her father served in the United States Navy as an officer during his active duty. Beverly, a native of Texas, is her mother, and Thad Harold Harden is her father.
She is also an Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress, which she earned for her outstanding performance in the film Pollock, which was released in the year 2000. Marcia’s active years in the profession began in 1979, and she has made significant improvement in her performance pattern since then. She appeared in some of the best films, including Used People, which was released in 1992, and Miller’s Crossing, in which she gave an incredible and dashing performance. It’s been 15 years since screenwriter Tina Fey brought peace to the teenage girl world with the groundbreaking “Mean Girls.” Now it’s her frequent creative partner Amy Poehler’s turn to stride the hallways of a contemporary high school, searching for harmony and justice among the heightened emotions and high-stakes conundrums of young adults.Marcia Gay Harden was born on August 14, 1959, in La Jolla, California, and she is currently 56 years old. Marking the multi-hyphenate Poehler’s return to the director’s chair after her casually comforting “Wine Country,” the good-natured dramedy “ Moxie” isn’t nearly as sharp as “Mean Girls,” lacking its hilarious wit and unwavering bite, often erring on the side of didacticism and broadness in similarly charting a fed-up young woman’s awakening against her high school’s hostile, victimizing culture. Still, it’s a welcome entry into a familiar genre that will resonate with young audiences burdened by the unwritten rules of their respective educational institutions. And that’s thanks in large part to an immensely likable ensemble cast guided by Poehler’s sure-handed energy behind the camera, as well as the film’s ambitious aims to be intersectional in its social and political themes.
“Moxie” follow in the footsteps of the vivacious “Booksmart,” the sex-positive “Blockers” and even refreshingly femsplain-y “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising” as a Gen-Z-centric movie with progressive ideals around race, gender and identity. #YOUNG MARCIA GAY HARDEN BIKINI MOVIE#įor the most part, the movie makes good on its liberal premise, even though it all conventionally resolves into a straight white character’s coming-of-age tale eventually. Portrayed by a resolute Hadley Robinson in a zesty and graceful performance, said protagonist is Vivian, an affable, brainy, yet reserved 16-year-old determined to keep her head down through the 11th grade and beyond, until she’s safely tucked away in UC Berkeley, her dream college. But it’s hard out there for her and her best friend Claudia (Lauren Tsai), an equally introverted outsider joined at the hip with Vivian. Who will be voted “the most bang-able?” How about “the most obedient” or the one with “the best rack?” The duo already seems stressed out on the first day of school - not only are they unnoticed by the cool kids, but they are also anxious about a soon-to-be-published (not to mention, extremely sexist and offensive) annual list. It takes the new student Lucy (Alycia Pascual-Peña), a smart and outspoken Black girl, for Claudia to finally realize that she does not have to accept this deeply misogynistic status quo. So Claudia observes Lucy as she uncompromisingly challenges the school heartthrob Mitchell Wilson (Patrick Schwarzenegger) - a bully with an insidiously manipulative demeanor - and questions the modern-day relevance of “The Great Gatsby” in class, keeping her head up high even when the school’s infuriatingly clueless principal (Marcia Gay Harden) dismisses Lucy’s complaints about Mitchell. Inspired by her mom Lisa’s (Poehler) younger days as an unruly Riot Grrrl who wanted nothing more than to topple the patriarchy, Vivian decides to start an underground zine called “Moxie” as a result, rebelliously calling attention to her school’s discriminatory ways.