Laurence Mark Biography

Laurence Mark is an Academy Award-nominated, Emmy-nominated, Golden Globe-winning producer of such acclaimed hit films as Julie & Julia, Dreamgirls, I, Robot, As Good as It Gets and Jerry Maguire.

Life and career

Mr. Mark most recently produced Last Vegas, starring Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline, and directed by Jon Turteltaub, and before that, Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams and written and directed by Nora Ephron.

Mr Mark recently completed production on Flatliners which was directed by NIels Arden Oplev (the Swedish Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, USA Network's Mr. Robot) and stars Ellen Page, Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev, James Norton and Kiersey Clemons for release next summer by Sony Pictures.

Mark is currently in production on The Greatest Showman starring Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Michelle Williams, Zendaya and Rebecca Fergueson and directed by Michael Gracey which Mr. Mark is producing or 20th Century Fox for release in December 2017.

For television, Mr. Mark is an Executive Producer of When We Rise, an eight-hour limited series created and written by Dustin Lance Black and starring Guy Pearce, Mary-Louise Parker and Rachel Griffiths which will air next year on ABC.

He is also an Executive Producer of The Art Of More starring Dennis Quaid, Kate Bosworth, Cary Elwes and Christian Cooke which is streaming its second season on Sony's Crackle TV.

With Bill Condon, Mr. Mark served as producer of the well-received Hugh Jackman-hosted 81st Annual Academy Awards which earned him an Emmy nomination. The show itself received ten Emmy nominations, a record for this annual telecast, and won four of them.

Before that, Mark produced Dreamgirls, starring Jamie Foxx, Beyonc and Eddie Murphy and written 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 movie in its year, and won two of them, including one for Jennifer Hudson as Best Supporting Actress.

Earlier on, 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 on the USA Network. The show received four Emmy nominations, winning one for Ellen Burstyn as Best Supporting Actress.

Mark has also produced I, Robot , Romy and Michele's High School Reunion , Last Holiday, and The Lookout, which won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature. In addition to these films, Mr. 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).

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 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

• 1987, Black Widow (executive producer)
• 1988, My Stepmother Is an Alien (executive producer)
• 1988, Working Girl (executive producer)
• 1989, Cookie (producer)
• 1989, Sweet Bird of Youth (TV) (executive producer)
• 1990, Mr. Destiny (executive producer)
• 1991, True Colors (producer)
• 1991, One Good Cop (producer)
• 1993, The Adventures of Huck Finn (producer)
• 1993, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (executive producer)
• 1994, Gunmen (producer)
• 1995, Tom and Huck (producer)
• 1995, Cutthroat Island (producer)
• 1996, Jerry Maguire (producer)
• 1997, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (producer)
• 1997, Oliver Twist (TV) (executive producer)
• 1997, As Good as It Gets (executive producer)
• 1998, Deep Rising (producer)
• 1998, The Object of My Affection (producer)
• 1998, Simon Birch (producer)
• 1999, Anywhere but Here (producer)
• 1999, Bicentennial Man (producer)
• 2000, Hanging Up (producer)
• 2000, Center Stage (producer)
• 2000, Finding Forrester (producer)
• 2001, These Old Broads (TV) (executive producer)
• 2001, Glitter (producer)
• 2001, Riding in Cars with Boys (producer)
• 2004, I, Robot (producer)
• 2006, Last Holiday (producer)
• 2006, Dreamgirls (producer)
• 2007, The Lookout (producer)
• 2008, Center Stage: Turn It Up (producer)
• 2009, Julie & Julia (producer)
• 2010, How Do You Know (producer)
• 2012, Political Animals (executive producer)
• 2013, Last Vegas (producer)
• 2016, Center Stage: On Pointe (TV) (executive producer)
• 2017, Flatliners (producer)
• 2017, The Greatest Showman (producer)

Awards and Nominations

Year	Award	Category	Film	Result
1997	Academy Awards	Best Picture	Jerry Maguire
2005	Black Reel Awards	Best Film	I, Robot
2006	Producers Guild of America Awards	Best Theatrical Motion Picture	Dreamgirls
2007	Black Reel Awards	Best Film	Dreamgirls
2008	Independent Spirit Awards	Best First Feature	The Lookout
2012	Emmy Awards	Outstanding Miniseries or Movie	Political Animals