The star of FX's Damages, five-time Oscar-nominated actress Glenn Close, is set to be joined by a fellow multi-awarded actress in the person of Marcia Gay Harden to bolster the already stellar lineup for its coming season.  If we backtrack to the second week of June, it was reported that another Oscar-winner William Hurt (King of the Spider Woman) will play a client of Patty Hewes (Close).

Harden, who won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Pollock in 2000, will play a powerful attorney who opposes Hewes on a case.  In what appears like a trend of veteran actors transitioning to guest starring roles on television series, Harden also guest-starred on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit last year and actually won an Emmy for the role.

Towards the end of June, Timothy Olyphant, sheriff Seth Bullock on HBO's Deadwood, has also confirmed a season-long arc on the legal drama.  He will be playing a guy who enters Ellen's (Rose Byrne) life and becomes entangled in both her personal life as she deals with her recent loss and professional struggles Hewes.

Harden, 49, also starred in other notable films like the 1997 sci-fi comedy Flubber with Robin Williams, the 1998 supernatural drama Meet Joe Black, and the 2003 drama Mystic River, where she fished another Oscar nomination.

The critically acclaimed series, which is due to return early in 2009, features a lawyer torn between the demands of her job and her family, as a mother and a wife.  Obviously, that is an understatement as it usually gets even more complicated than that.  Those who've seen a few clips of the second season with Hurt and Olyphant said it looked incredible.


-Glenn Diaz, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
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