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Marcia Gay Harden Joins 'Royal Pains'

by Kim Potts, posted Apr 27th 2010 9:10AM
Oscar and Tony Award winner Marcia Gay Harden is making another bid for her EGOT: The actress, who was nominated for an Emmy for her guest appearance on 'Law & Order: SVU' in 2007, is adding another high-profile TV guest gig to her resume with a role on USA Network's hit drama 'Royal Pains.'

The Ausiello Files reports that Harden will appear in several episodes of the dramedy, playing Dr. Elizabeth Blair, surgeon and board member of the Hamptons Heritage Hospital where Dr. Jill Casey (Jill Flint) works. Dr. Blair will at first butt heads with Dr. Casey, before eventually becoming her mentor.

Harden's first appearance on the show will be in the 'Royal Pains' season two premiere, on June 3.Oscar and Tony Award winner Marcia Gay Harden is making another bid for her EGOT: The actress, who was nominated for an Emmy for her guest appearance on 'Law & Order: SVU' in 2007, is adding another high-profile TV guest gig to her resume with a role on USA Network's hit drama 'Royal Pains.'

The Ausiello Files reports that Harden will appear in several episodes of the dramedy, playing Dr. Elizabeth Blair, surgeon and board member of the Hamptons Heritage Hospital where Dr. Jill Casey (Jill Flint) works. Dr. Blair will at first butt heads with Dr. Casey, before eventually becoming her mentor.

Harden's first appearance on the show will be in the 'Royal Pains' season two premiere, on June 3.

Also on tap for season two of the show (one of USA's highest-rated series): The Fonz! Henry Winkler will pop in as Eddie Lawson, the absentee dad of brothers Hank (Mark Feuerstein) and Evan (Paulo Costanzo) for several episodes, while 'Trauma' and 'Damages' actress Anastasia Griffith joins the cast in the recurring role of Dr. Emily Peck. Peck first appears in the season premiere, when wealthy Boris (Campbell Scott) hires her as his concierge doc because he can't find Hank.

As for Harden, whose last TV guest role was as attorney Claire Maddox on the second season of 'Damages,' 'Royal Pains' is her TV project for 2010, but she's also starring in a pair of big-screen movies. She provides the voice of Aamah in the animated 'Noah's Ark: The New Beginning,' and stars as an adoptive mom whose Jewish daughter (Olivia Thirlby) finds out her birth mother is Palestinian in the indie drama 'The No Game.'

Meanwhile, Harden, who won her Oscar for 'Pollock' and added the Tony last year for her performance in 'God of Carnage,' doesn't appear to be actively working for the Grammy part of her EGOT. But in a world where three cast members of the 'Real Housewives' franchise can release singles, there's always hope for Marcia Gay Harden.

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