Laurence Mark

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Laurence Mark
Mark in 2004
Born	c. 1949 (age 71–72) New York, New York, U.S.
Education	Wesleyan University New York University

Laurence Mark (born ca. 1949)^[1] is an American film producer. His credits include Julie & Julia (2009), Dreamgirls (2006), I, Robot (2004), and As Good as It Gets (1997). For producing Jerry Maguire (1996), Mark was nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture.

Life and career[]

Mark produced Last Vegas (2013), starring Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline, and directed by Jon Turteltaub; Flatliners (2017), starring Ellen Page, Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev and directed by Niels Arden Oplev; and Julie & Julia (2009), starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams and written and directed by Nora Ephron.

Mark is currently executive-producing Vivo, an animated musical film with music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Directed by Kirk DeMicco, the film is scheduled to be released by Sony Pictures Animation on June 4, 2021.

For television, Mark was an executive producer of When We Rise, the critically praised limited series created and written by Dustin Lance Black and starring Guy Pearce, Mary-Louise Parker and Rachel Griffiths which aired earlier this year on ABC.

With Bill Condon, Mark served as producer of the highly regarded Hugh Jackman-hosted 81st Academy Awards which earned him an Emmy nomination. The show itself received ten Emmy nominations, winning.

Before that, Mark produced Dreamgirls (2006) starring Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé Knowles and Eddie Murphy and directed by Bill Condon. The film won three Golden Globe Awards, including one for Best Picture. It also received eight Academy Award nominations, the most of any title in its year, and won two of them.

Mark received an Academy Award nomination for producing Best Picture nominee Jerry Maguire, and he executive-produced two other Academy Award nominees for Best Picture, As Good as It Gets and Working Girl.

Mark garnered an Emmy nomination and a Golden Globe nomination as Executive Producer of Political Animals, a limited series created by Greg Berlanti and starring Sigourney Weaver which aired in 2012 on the USA Network. The show received four Emmy nominations, winning one for Ellen Burstyn as Best Supporting Actress.

He is also an Executive Producer of starring Dennis Quaid, Kate Bosworth, Cary Elwes and Christian Cooke which streaming for two seasons on .

Mark has also produced Romy and Michele's High School Reunion , Last Holiday, and The Lookout, which won the Independent Spirit Award for . In addition to these films, Mark produced Finding Forrester, The Object of My Affection, Anywhere but Here, The Adventures of Huck Finn, Black Widow and Center Stage (plus its two sequels). Mark produced The Greatest Showman (2018), a musical starring Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Michelle Williams and Zendaya and directed by Michael Gracey which grossed over $425 million worldwide. In North America, it is the highest-grossing, live-action original film musical of all time and the third highest-grossing live-action musical of all time.

Laurence Mark Productions is headquartered at Sony Pictures Entertainment where the company has a tong-term production arrangement with Columbia Pictures. Mark's other producing credits include Sister Act 2, True Colors, Bicentennial Man, Simon Birch, Riding in Cars with Boys, How Do You Know and the now legendary Glitter starring Mariah Carey.

Prior to producing, Mark held several key publicity and marketing posts at Paramount Pictures, culminating in his being appointed Vice President of West Coast Marketing. He then moved into production, and as Vice President of Production at Paramount and Executive Vice President of Production at Twentieth Century Fox, he was closely involved with the development and production of such films as Terms of Endearment, Trading Places, Falling in Love, The Fly and Broadcast News.

Mark was born in New York City and educated at Eaglebrook School, The Hotchkiss School, and Wesleyan University, from which he graduated in 1971. He holds a Masters of Arts degree in Film from New York University.

He currently resides in Los Angeles and New York.

Films[]

He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.

Film[]

Miscellaneous crew

Thanks

Television[]

Awards and nominations[]

References[]

External links[]

• Laurence Mark at IMDb
• Hollywood.com biography at archive.today (archived 2013-01-25)