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Martha Williamson
American screenwriter From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Martha Williamson (born 1955) is an American television producer and writer, best known as the head writer and executive producer of the long-running hit CBS television series Touched by an Angel.[1]
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Williamson began her career in television working on musical variety programs for Carol Burnett, Walt Disney Television, and others.[2] She wrote and produced for half-hour comedies such as the long-running The Facts of Life and The Family Man with Gregory Harrison.[2] She made the transition to one-hour drama as producer of Jack's Place for ABC Television and Co-Executive Producer of the CBS series Under One Roof, which starred James Earl Jones.
In 1994, she became the Executive Producer of Touched by an Angel. Two years later, when Promised Land premiered in 1996, she became the second woman to simultaneously produce two American television dramas.[3] Touched by an Angel was nominated for nine Emmy Awards and was inducted into the Museum of Television and Radio Hall of Fame. It has been translated into more than sixty languages and continues to be broadcast around the world.
Williamson later became the host of A Touch of Encouragement on Beliefnet.com.[4]
Her awards include the Freedom Works Award from the U.S. Congress, the Edward R. Murrow Responsibility in Television Award, the Producers Guild Nova Award, the Templeton Prize, as well as honors from the Anti-Defamation League, the NAACP, the Salvation Army, and Catholics in Media.[citation needed]
In 2003, she was appointed to the President's White House Council on Service and Civic Participation.[5]
She was named in 2007 by her publisher as one of the "12 Most Powerful Christians in Hollywood".[6]
She created the TV series Signed, Sealed, Delivered, which premiered in 2013 on the Hallmark Channel and on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.
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Williamson was born and raised in Denver, Colorado.[7] Her parents jointly ran a management company.[2][3] After attending college thanks to a Gates Scholarship, she graduated from Williams College in 1977 with a degree in art history.[8] She later served on the Williams College Board of Trustees from 2012 to 2024.[8]
Raised Methodist, Williamson later became a born again Christian; as of a 1996 Los Angeles Times interview, she attended a Baptist church in Pasadena, California.[3] In the same profile, she rejected characterizations of her work, particularly Promised Land, as ideologically conservative, saying "Why should family programming suddenly be the sole property of the Christian Coalition or the silent majority or whatever? [...] Jesus was the most liberal guy you'd ever meet, you know?"[3]
In 1998, Williamson married Jon Andersen.[2] The couple adopted two daughters from China.[2]
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