When she first saw her future husband on the set of The Spitfire Grill (1996), she asked her co-star, Ellen Burstyn, her opinion of him. Ellen didn't think he was Marcia's type. Fortuneately, Marcia didn't take her advice. Ellen became godmother of Marcia's three children.

Achieved a degree of notoriety for making the rounds of the spring 2004 awards ceremonies while near-term with twins. When asked about all of the talk her hugely-pregnant figure was generating, she was quoted as saying that, when it comes to pregnancy, when you've got it, flaunt it.

On December 15, 2003, her young nephew and niece were killed in a tragic fire. The deaths occurred when the Queens, New York, apartment, owned by her former sister-in-law, went up in flames after a burning candle set a sofa on fire. Her ex-sister-in-law also later died from injuries received in the fire.

Graduated from the University of Texas with a B.A. in theater (1980) and earned an MFA from the graduate theater program at New York University.

MFA in Acting - New York University, Tisch School of the Arts (1988).

Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1990" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 42. [1990]

Was nominated for Broadway's 1993 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for Tony Kushner's "Angels in America: Millennium Approaches."

Graduated from Surrattsville Sr. High in Clinton, Maryland (1976). Laura Wright also graduated from Surrattsville H.S., but in 1988.

Her father, brother, and husband are all named Thaddaeus.

She was the first University of Texas at Austin graduate to win an Oscar. She won for Best Supporting Actress in 2001 for Pollock (2000). The second UT grad to win was Renée Zellweger in 2004.

She and her husband, Thaddaeus Scheel, have three children: a daughter, Eulala Scheel, born in September 1998, and twins, a boy named Hudson Harden Scheel and a girl named Julitta Dee Harden Scheel, born on 22 April 2004 in New York.