Name Mark Olsen Role TV Producer | Partner Will Scheffer | |
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Born 1962 (age 52–53) USA Occupation Producer, Writer, Attorney Awards Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Episodic Drama Nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Movies and TV shows Big Love, Getting On, Bernard and Doris, Easter Similar People Will Scheffer, Mel Rodriguez, Laurie Metcalf, David Knoller, Jeanne Tripplehorn Profiles | ||
Mark V. Olsen (born 1962) is a U.S. TV producer and screenwriter. He is the co-creator and executive producer of the HBO series Big Love along with writing partner and husband Will Scheffer. In 2007, Olsen and Scheffer won a TV Writers Guild of America Award for the pilot and first episode of Big Love.
Overview
Mark V. Olsen grew up in Hastings, Nebraska. He is also an attorney, and a member of the New York bar.
Olsen is openly gay; since the early 1990s, he and professional partner Will Scheffer have also been married to each other.
Prior to Big Love, Olsen co-produced Easter (2002), written by Will Scheffer. Olsen also wrote a six-part miniseries for HBO known as Mary Chestnut's Civil War.
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