Carolyn Marks Blackwood

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Carolyn Marks Blackwood
Born
Carolyn Gail Marks

(1951-08-21) August 21, 1951 (age 72)
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 active1979–present
Spouse(s) Greg Quinn
(married since 2017)

Christian Blackwood
(married 1992–1992)

Anthony Mulcahy
(married 1983)

ChildrenGabriel Marks-Mulcahy [1]
Parent(s)Edwin Marks
Nancy Marks
Website http://www.cmblackwood.com/

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.

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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]

Film and television

YearFilmCredit
2002The MothProducer [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]
2016Dancer (Documentary)Executive Producer [12]
2018 The White Crow Producer [13]
2019 My Zoe Executive Producer [6]
2021 The Dig Producer [14]

Photography

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]

Solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Book covers

Reception

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]

Personal life

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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