# Mary Jo Markey

Mary Jo Markey is an American television and film editor. Markey has been elected to membership of the American Cinema Editors society. She is a frequent collaborator with J. J. Abrams.

## Career

Markey has edited several mainstream films including The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Mission: Impossible III. She has also worked as an editor on several television shows, such as three episodes of Felicity, Breaking News, Skin, fourteen episodes of Alias, and was also chief editor on Lost.
She worked with Abrams on three of his television shows (Felicity, Alias, and Lost), and on almost all of his feature films as director with Maryann Brandon, with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker being the lone exception. Markey worked with Abrams on Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which was released in December 2015. Along with her co-editor Brandon, she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Film Editing for her work on the film.
In her role editing Abrams' Star Trek, she reported she did not realize that he intended to make extensive use of lens flares and bright lighting, and contacted the film developers asking why the film seemed overexposed.

## Filmography
### Feature films

| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 1996 | Mariette in Ecstasy | John Bailey | Co-edited with Greg Finton |
| 2002 | Dawg | Victoria Hochberg | Co-edited with Claudia Finkle |
| 2006 | Mission: Impossible III | J. J. Abrams | Co-edited with Maryann Brandon |
| 2009 | Star Trek | J. J. Abrams | Co-edited with Maryann Brandon Nominated — ACE Eddie for Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic Nominated — HPA Award for Outstanding Editing - Feature Film |
| 2010 | Killers | Robert Luketic | Co-edited with Richard Francis-Bruce |
| 2011 | Super 8 | J. J. Abrams | Co-edited with Maryann Brandon Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Editing Nominated — HPA Award for Outstanding Editing - Feature Film Nominated — PFCS Award for Best Film Editing |
| 2012 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Stephen Chbosky | |
| 2013 | Star Trek Into Darkness | J. J. Abrams | Co-edited with Maryann Brandon |
| 2015 | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | J. J. Abrams | Co-edited with Maryann Brandon Saturn Award for Best Editing Nominated — Academy Award for Best Film Editing Nominated — ACE Eddie for Best Edited Feature Film - Dramatic Nominated — ACCA Award for Best Film Editing Nominated — COFCA Award for Best Film Editing Nominated — OFTA Award for Best Film Editing |
| 2016 | The Great Wall | Zhang Yimou | Co-edited with Craig Wood |
| 2017 | Life | Daniel Espinosa | Co-edited with Frances Parker |
| 2019 | Charlie's Angels | Elizabeth Banks | |
| 2021 | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | Michael Showalter | |

### Television films

| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| 1996 | The Cold Equations | Peter Geiger | |
| 1997 | The Stepsisters | Charles Correll | |
| 1998 | Rhapsody in Bloom | Craig M. Saavedra | |
| 1998 | Meteorites! | Chris Thomson | |
| 1998 | Giving Up the Ghost | Claudia Weill | |
| 2007 | Life Support | Nelson George | Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Limited Series or Movie Nominated — ACE Eddie for Best Edited Miniseries or Motion Picture for Non-Commercial Television |
| 2009 | Anatomy of Hope | J. J. Abrams | |
| 2014 | The Money | Justin Chadwick | |

### Television series

| Year | Title | Network | Episode(s) |
| 1998–2002 | Felicity | The WB | 14 |
| 2001–2004 | Alias | ABC | 14 |
| 2004–2009 | Lost | ABC | 12 |