Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden has been selected as this year’s recipient of the North Fork TV Festival‘s Canopy Award.
An accolade for a member of the New York television community whose “persistence and integrity, bound by the twin spirits of independence and collaboration, stoke the creative ambitions of diverse people who have important stories to tell,” the Canopy Award will be presented to Harden on Aug.
28 during this year’s North Fork TV Festival at a formal ceremony at The Halyard at the Soundview in Greenport, New York. The ceremony will feature a conversation between Harden and Variety’s Senior Business Writer, TV and Video Games Jennifer Maas, with an audience Q&A to follow.
Known for her roles in films including “Sinatra,” “Pollock” (for which she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress), “Mystic River” (for which she was Oscar-nominated in the same category), Harden most recently starred on the now-ended CBS dramedy “So Help Me Todd” alongside Skylar Astin.