Biography
Carolyn Marks Blackwood is an American film producer and fine art photographer. She was born on 21 August 1951 in Anchorage, Alaska, and raised in Great Neck, New York. She attended Rutgers University and New York University. In the 1970s she worked as a singer-songwriter and backup singer, later developing television programmes in Paris. She founded Magnolia Mae Films with Gabrielle Tana in 1997.
Blackwood has produced or served as executive producer on several films, including The Duchess (2008), Philomena (2013), The Invisible Woman (2013), Dancer (2016), The White Crow (2018), My Zoe (2019), The Dig (2021) and Firebrand (2023). She has also worked as a screenwriter and continues to exhibit her photography internationally.
