Marcia Rachel Clark is an American prosecutor, author, television correspondent and television producer.
27 Facts About Marcia Clark
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Marcia Clark is known for being the lead prosecutor in the O J Simpson murder case.
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Marcia Clark's father was born and raised in Israel, and worked as a chemist for the FDA.
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Marcia Clark has a younger brother by six years who became an engineer.
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Marcia Clark studied at the University of California, Los Angeles, graduating in 1976 with a degree in political science, then earned a Juris Doctor degree at Southwestern University School of Law.
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Marcia Clark was in private practice and worked as a public defender for the city of Los Angeles before she became a prosecutor in 1981.
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Marcia Clark worked as a deputy district attorney for Los Angeles County, California, and was mentored by prosecutor Harvey Giss.
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Marcia Clark said that the media attention she received during the trial was "the hell of the trial", calling herself "famous in a way that was kind of terrifying".
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Marcia Clark was advised by a jury consultant to "talk softer, dress softer, wear pastels" as a means to improve her image.
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Marcia Clark subsequently changed her hairstyle into a perm, and the Los Angeles Times described her as looking like "Sigourney Weaver, only more professional".
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Since the Simpson trial, Marcia Clark has made numerous appearances on television, including being a "special correspondent" for Entertainment Tonight.
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Marcia Clark provided coverage of high-profile trials and reported from the red carpet at awards shows such as the Emmy Awards.
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Marcia Clark was a guest attorney on the short-lived television series Power of Attorney, and was featured on Headline News, where she analyzed the Casey Anthony trial.
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In July 2013, Marcia Clark provided commentary for CNN on the trial of George Zimmerman in Florida for the homicide of Trayvon Martin.
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Marcia Clark wrote a pilot script for a TV series called Borderland, centering on "a very dark version of the DA's office", which was purchased by FX but never produced.
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Marcia Clark has contributed true crime articles to The Daily Beast.
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In contrast, Marcia Clark's "Samantha Brinkman" series features a woman who is a defense attorney.
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Marcia Clark is played by Sarah Paulson in the 2016 television series The People v O J Simpson: American Crime Story, which focuses on the O J Simpson trial.
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Paulson's performance as Marcia Clark earned wide acclaim, and she earned a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for the role.
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Marcia Clark attended the Emmy Awards with Paulson on September 18,2016.
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In 2019, Marcia Clark appeared in the 18th season finale of Gordon Ramsay's reality series Hell's Kitchen as a VIP guest diner for winner and season six veteran Ariel Contreras-Fox.
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Marcia Clark has said it was an experience she did not deal with until much later, and that it influenced much of why she became a prosecutor.
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In 1976, Marcia Clark married Gabriel Horowitz, an Israeli professional backgammon player whom she met while they were students at UCLA.
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In 1980, Marcia Clark married her second husband, Gordon Marcia Clark, a computer programmer and systems administrator who was employed at the Church of Scientology.
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Gordon argued at a custody hearing during the Simpson trial that he should receive full custody of their children due to the long hours Marcia Clark spent working for the trial.
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Marcia Clark no longer considers herself a religious person, although she was raised Jewish and her first wedding was a Conservative Jewish ceremony.
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Marcia Clark was a member of the Church of Scientology but since 1980 is no longer associated with it.