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Carolyn Marks Blackwood
Birth Name:Carolyn Gail Marks
Birth Date:21 August 1951
Birth Place:Anchorage, Alaska, United States
Education:John L. Miller Great Neck North High School
Occupation:Photographer, producer, singer-songwriter, composer, writer
Years Active:1979–present
Spouse:Greg Quinn
(married since 2017)

Christian Blackwood
(married 1992–1992)

Anthony Mulcahy
(married 1983)

Children:Gabriel Marks-Mulcahy[1]
Parents:Edwin Marks
Nancy Marks
Alma Mater:Livingston College at Rutgers University
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.

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]

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.

Film and television

!Year!Film!Credit
2002The MothProducer[6]
2008The DuchessExecutive Producer[7] [8]
2011CoriolanusAssociate Executive Producer[9]
2013PhilomenaExecutive Producer[10]
2013The Invisible WomanProducer
2016Dancer (Documentary)Executive Producer[11]
2018The White CrowProducer[12]
2019My ZoeExecutive Producer
2021The DigProducer

Photography

Blackwood's photographic work is presently represented by Von Lintel Gallery in Los Angeles[13] and the Roberto Polo Gallery in Brussels.[14] Blackwood was named as one of the "five artists to watch" in the photography edition of Artnet News.[15]

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,[18] [19] [20] [21] including noted contemporary art critic, historian and curator Barbara Rose.[22] [23]

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.

Blackwood has been in a relationship with Greg Quinn since 1997[24] whom she married in April 2017. Blackwood and Quinn live in the Hudson Valley,[25] in New York state where they co-own and jointly operate a blackcurrant farm.[26]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Christian Blackwood, Film Maker, Dies at 50 . July 25, 1992 . The New York Times Company.
  2. Web site: Carolyn Marks Blackwood. December 20, 2017. Widewalls.ch.
  3. Web site: Carolyn Marks Blackwood helped bring Philomena & The Invisible Woman to screen. January 9, 2014. Ulster Publishing.
  4. Web site: On the Cover: Ice #20 . February 25, 2009. Luminary Publishing.
  5. Web site: British Films Directory: My Zoe. March 22, 2017. British Council.
  6. Book: Catherine Burns . The Moth . September 3, 2013 . Hachette Books . 9781401305963.
  7. Web site: 2008 . The Duchess (2008) . https://web.archive.org/web/20160310124913/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8c6aeedd/ . dead . March 10, 2016 . British Film Institute.
  8. Web site: July 29, 2014 . To Feel Less Alone: Interview with New York Filmmaker, Fine Art Photographer, Carolyn Marks Blackwood . Deanna Elaine Piowaty and Combustus.
  9. Web site: February 14, 2011 . Coriolanus: Ralph Fiennes reprises a juicy Shakespearean role in his bloody, bellicose directorial debut. . Variety Media, LLC.
  10. Web site: 2013 . Philomena Movie Site, Cast & Crew . The Weinstein Company.
  11. Web site: April 1, 2016 . WestEnd Closes Raft of Deals on Ballet Documentary 'Dancer' (EXCLUSIVE) . Variety Media, LLC.
  12. Web site: Shooting Wraps on Ralph Fiennes' The White Crow – Filmoria . www.filmoria.co.uk . December 20, 2017.
  13. Web site: Carolyn Marks Blackwood. December 17, 2017. Von Lintel Gallery.
  14. Web site: Carolyn Marks Blackwood: "The Story Series" at Roberto Polo Gallery, Brussels. November 22, 2017. BlouinArtinfo Corp..
  15. Web site: April 1, 2015 . 5 Artists to Watch: The Photography Edition . 2022-05-04 . Artnet News . en-US.
  16. Book: The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart: Poems. Deborah Digges. 2012. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 9780375711701.
  17. Book: Vanhoenacker, Mark . June 2015 . Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot . Alfred A. Knopf – US; Penguin UK – UK . 9780385351812 . iv . January 3, 2018.
  18. Web site: 5 Artists to Watch: The Photography Edition . April 1, 2015. artnet.
  19. Web site: The Bard of the Upper Reaches. July 17, 2014. HuffPost News.
  20. Web site: Interview with Carolyn Marks Blackwood: Elements of Place. July 22, 2014. Musée Magazine.
  21. Web site: STUNNING CLOUDSCAPES PHOTOGRAPHED BY CAROLYN MARKS BLACKWOOD. May 7, 2013. Feature Shoot.
  22. Web site: The Uncanny: Barbara Rose on Carolyn Marks Blackwood's Story Series . March 2017. Whitehot Magazine.
  23. Web site: A Conversation Between Carolyn Marks Blackwood and Barbara Rose. November 29, 2017. Musée Magazine.
  24. Web site: Carolyn Marks Blackwood: THE EPHEMERAL BEAUTY OF ICE AND TIME. November 30, 2015. MUSÉE Magazine.
  25. Web site: The High Life in New York's Hudson River Valley. May 14, 2015. Dow Jones & Company.
  26. Web site: There's Been A Black Currant Resurgence, And Here's Why. August 15, 2016. Rural Intelligence. December 18, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20180420213312/https://ruralintelligence.com/food_section/food_articles_agriculture/currants_come_back_and_why_they_went_away_in_the_first_place. April 20, 2018. dead.

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