Carolyn Strauss (born July 13, 1963) is an American television executive and producer. She was the president of the

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network's entertainment division until 2008 and was responsible for commissioning series like ''

The Sopranos ''The Sopranos'' is an American Crime film#Crime drama, crime drama television series created by David Chase. The story revolves around Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), a New Jersey-based American Mafia, Italian-American mobster, portraying h ...

'', ''

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'', '' Six Feet Under'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. Upon leaving the position she became a television developer and producer and was given a production deal with HBO. She has collaborated with the network on the series '' Treme'', ''

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'' and ''

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''.

Personal life

Being of

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descent, in August 2015 she signed - as one of 98 members of the Los Angeles' Jewish community - an open letter supporting the proposed nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers led by the United States "as being in the best interest of the United States and Israel."

Filmography

* '' Treme'' (2010–2013) – Executive Producer * ''

'' – (2011–2019) Executive Producer * ''

'' (2011–2012) – Executive Producer * ''

The Specials The Specials, also known as The Special AKA, are an English Two-tone (music genre), 2 tone and ska revival band formed in 1977 in Coventry. After some early changes, the first stable lineup of the group consisted of Terry Hall (singer), Terr ...

'' (2014) – Executive Producer * ''

Chernobyl Chernobyl ( , ; russian: Чернобыль, ) or Chornobyl ( uk, Чорнобиль, ) is a partially abandoned city in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, situated in the Vyshhorod Raion of northern Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. Chernobyl is about no ...

'' (2019) – Executive Producer * '' Deadwood: The Movie'' (2019) – Executive Producer *''

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'' (2023) – Executive Producer *'' The Baby'' (TBA) – Executive Producer

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* Television producers from New York (state) American women television producers American television executives Women television executives 20th-century American Jews Living people People from Scarsdale, New York Scarsdale High School alumni 1963 births Harvard College alumni 21st-century American Jews 20th-century American women 21st-century American women Jewish American television producers {{US-tv-bio-stub