Marcia Grace Russell OBE (1940 – 1 December 2012) was a New Zealand journalist and documentary-maker.
Russell started out as a cadet reporter for the New Zealand Herald in 1959, then going on to found Thursday, a magazine in 1968.
[2] She went on to work on award-winning shows such as Landmarks (1981) and The New Zealand Wars (1998), for which she received an award in scriptwriting.
[1] In the 1996 New Year Honours, Russell was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to journalism.
[3] In 2003, she was the inaugural recipient of the Academy of Film and Television Lifetime Achievement Award.