Carolyn Marks Blackwood


Carolyn Marks Blackwood is an American fine art photographer, film producer, writer, screenwriter, and singer-songwriter. She was born in Anchorage, Alaska, moved to New York State as a child, and finally to the Hudson Valley region in 1999.
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 is raising her only daughter Zoe in conjunction with her ex-husband," due to be released in 2018.
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

Blackwood's photographic work is presently represented by Von Lintel Gallery and the Roberto Polo Gallery.

Solo exhibitions

Blackwood was an executive producer on 2008's 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, her work as a photographer has been favorably recognized by various critics, including noted contemporary art critic, historian and curator Barbara Rose.

Personal life

Carolyn Marks 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.
She has been in a relationship with Greg Quinn since 1997 whom she married in April 2017. Blackwood and Quinn live in the Hudson Valley, where they co-own and jointly operate a blackcurrant farm.