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American screenwriter and fine-art photographer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carolyn Marks Blackwood (born August 21, 1951) is an American fine art photographer, film producer, writer, screenwriter, and singer-songwriter.[2] Born in Anchorage, Alaska, Blackwood moved to New York State as a child, and finally to the Hudson Valley region of New York in 1999.
Carolyn Marks Blackwood | |
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Born | Carolyn Gail Marks August 21, 1951 Anchorage, Alaska, United States |
Education | John L. Miller Great Neck North High School |
Alma mater | Livingston College at Rutgers University |
Occupation(s) | Photographer, producer, singer-songwriter, composer, writer |
Years active | 1979–present |
Spouse(s) | Greg Quinn (married since 2017) Christian Blackwood Anthony Mulcahy |
Children | Gabriel Marks-Mulcahy[1] |
Parent(s) | Edwin Marks Nancy Marks |
Website | http://www.cmblackwood.com/ |
Blackwood co-owns Magnolia Mae Films with her business partner Gabrielle Tana,[3][4] and is best known for her work on the Academy Award-winning film The Duchess and on the Oscar-nominated film Philomena. In addition to her work on Coriolanus, The Invisible Woman, and the 2016 Sergei Polunin documentary Dancer, she is currently active with the upcoming film The White Crow and in pre-production for My Zoe: the story of "a geneticist recovering from a toxic marriage [who] is raising her only daughter Zoe in conjunction with her ex-husband," which was released in 2019.[5][6]
Blackwood's photography has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in Brussels, Los Angeles, New York City, and across the Northeastern United States, in addition to several book covers.[2]
Year | Film | Credit |
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2002 | The Moth | Producer[7] |
2008 | The Duchess | Executive Producer[8][9] |
2011 | Coriolanus | Associate Executive Producer[10] |
2013 | Philomena | Executive Producer[11][3] |
2013 | The Invisible Woman | Producer[3] |
2016 | Dancer (Documentary) | Executive Producer[12] |
2018 | The White Crow | Producer[13] |
2019 | My Zoe | Executive Producer[6] |
2021 | The Dig | Producer[14] |
Blackwood's photographic work is presently represented by Von Lintel Gallery in Los Angeles[15] and the Roberto Polo Gallery in Brussels.[16] Blackwood was named as one of the "five artists to watch" in the photography edition of Artnet News.[17]
Blackwood was an executive producer on the 2008 film The Duchess, which won three Academy Awards. She was also an executive producer on the film Philomena, which was nominated for four Oscars in 2013.
Since 2009, Blackwood's work as a photographer has been favorably recognized by various critics,[9][20][21][22][23] including noted contemporary art critic, historian and curator Barbara Rose.[4][24][25]
Blackwood was born in Anchorage, Alaska in 1951 to Edwin and Nancy Marks.
She has one child with former spouse Anthony Mulcahy, and was married to the late documentary film director, Christian Blackwood until his death in July 1992.[1]
Blackwood has been in a relationship with Greg Quinn since 1997[26] whom she married in April 2017. Blackwood and Quinn live in the Hudson Valley,[27] in New York state where they co-own and jointly operate a blackcurrant farm.[28]
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