Named one of the 50 greatest women in radio and television, Emmy winner Marcy Carsey is partner and co-founder of arguably one of the most successful independent studios in television history, the Carsey-Werner Company. For 25 years Carsey Werner has been one of the leading suppliers and distributors to the worldwide marketplace. CW controls a library of high quality programming including the series, The Cosby Show, Roseanne, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Grace Under Fire, and That 70’s Show. CW shows are seen in over 175 countries and heard in 50 different languages.
In 2000, Marcy and her partners joined forces with Geraldine Laybourne and Oprah Winfrey to form the Oxygen Cable Network, designed to serve the modern woman.
Marcy began her show business career as an NBC tour guide and soon became a production assistant on The Tonight Show. Following that, she became a program supervisor at William Esty Advertising. She left New York for Hollywood and worked as a story analyst at Tomorrow Entertainment, eventually becoming executive story editor. In 1974 Marcy joined ABC-TV as a general program executive for comedy programming. Two years later she became Vice President, Prime-Time Comedy and Variety Programs, and three years after that, Senior Vice President of Prime-Time Series. Marcy went out on her own in 1980 to pursue independent production, and a year later teamed with her ABC partner Tom Werner to form Carsey Werner.
Marcy and her partner have been inducted into the Academy of Television Arts And Sciences and Broadcasting and Cable Magazine’s Halls of Fame. She has received the Emmy, Peabody Award, Humanitas Prize, NAACP Image Award, the David Susskind Lifetime Achievement Award from the Producer’s Guild of America, the Publicist’s Guild’s Showman of the Year Award and the Lucy Award from Women in Film. In 1999 she was given the Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement, placing her in the Museum of the American Dream as one of the 20th century’s most extraordinary achievers.
Marcy is a native of Weymouth, Massachusetts, and a cum laude graduate in English literature from the University of New Hampshire. She has two adult children and three step children.
