Carolyn Marks Blackwood
Carolyn Marks Blackwood (born August 21, 1951) is an American fine art photographer, film producer, writer, screenwriter, and singer-songwriter. 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 |
| Parent(s) | Edwin Marks Nancy Marks |
| Website | http://www.cmblackwood.com/ |
Blackwood co-owns Magnolia Mae Films with her business partner Gabrielle Tana, 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.
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.