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- Mark Colvin was born on March 13, 1952 in London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Four Corners (1961) and Foreign Correspondent (1996). He was married to Michele McKenzie. He died on May 11, 2017 in Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- SpouseMichele McKenzie(1987 - May 11, 2017) (his death, 2 children)
- He went to Australia after graduating from Oxford University with a degree in English literature.
- He was a journalist who worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corp. for four decades. He started out as a radio reporter in 1974. He was in Tehran to report on the Iranian hostage crisis. He covered famines in Africa, the rise of the Solidarity movement in Poland, and the break-up of the Soviet Union.
- His father was a spy for MI6 while serving as a diplomat during the Cold War.
- Grandson of Admiral Sir Ragnar Colvin and son of historian, diplomat and spy John Horace Ragnar Colvin (Tokyo, 18June 1922 -- 4 October 2003. UK).
- Subject of a play: Mark Colvin's Kidney written by Tommy Murphy with direction by David Berthold which premiered at Belvoir theatre in Sydney in March 2017.
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