Rachel Portman

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Female

Birthday

1960-12-11 (65 years old)

Place of Birth

Haslemere, Surrey, England, UK

Rachel Portman

Biography

Rachel Mary Berkeley Portman, OBE (born 11 December 1960) is an English composer who is best known for scoring films. Portman's career in music began with writing music for drama in BBC and Channel 4 films such as Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Mike Leigh's Four Days in July and Jim Henson's Storyteller series. Since then, Portman has written over 100 scores for film, television and theatre. Her other works include a children's opera, The Little Prince (which was later adapted for television) and Little House on the Prairie, a musical based upon the Laura Ingalls Wilder books Little House on the Prairie (2008). Portman was commissioned to...

Production

2005

Oliver Twist

as Original Music Composer

2000

Chocolat

as Original Music Composer

1995

A Pyromaniac's Love Story

as Original Music Composer

1994

The Road to Wellville

as Original Music Composer

2006

The Lake House

as Original Music Composer

1997

Addicted to Love

as Original Music Composer

1995

Smoke

as Original Music Composer

2003

The Human Stain

as Original Music Composer

2000

The Legend of Bagger Vance

as Original Music Composer

1998

Home Fries

as Original Music Composer

2006

Infamous

as Original Music Composer

1994

Sirens

as Original Music Composer

2008

The Duchess

as Original Music Composer

1996

Marvin's Room

as Original Music Composer

2010

Never Let Me Go

as Original Music Composer

1999

Ratcatcher

as Original Music Composer

2011

His Way

as Original Music Composer

1993

The Joy Luck Club

as Original Music Composer

2023

Dancing Fruit

as Original Music Composer

2013

The Right Kind of Wrong

as Original Music Composer

2021

Julia

as Original Music Composer

2015

Bessie

as Original Music Composer

2014

Dolphin Tale 2

as Original Music Composer

2011

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

as Original Music Composer

1989

1989

The Woman in Black

as Original Music Composer

1996

The Adventures of Pinocchio

as Original Music Composer

2001

2003

Mona Lisa Smile

as Original Music Composer

2004

The Manchurian Candidate

as Original Music Composer

1990

2019

Archie

as Music

1990

1987

The Short & Curlies

as Original Music Composer

1996

Emma

as Orchestrator

1987

1914 All Out

as Original Music Composer

1992

Used People

as Original Music Composer

2012

Bel Ami

as Original Music Composer

2012

Bel Ami

as Orchestrator

1997

2017

Their Finest

as Original Music Composer

2017

A Dog's Purpose

as Original Music Composer

2016

Race

as Original Music Composer

2016

Despite the Falling Snow

as Original Music Composer

2013

Still Life

as Original Music Composer

2013

Paradise

as Original Music Composer

2013

Belle

as Original Music Composer

2012

Private Peaceful

as Original Music Composer

2009

Grey Gardens

as Original Music Composer

2002

Nicholas Nickleby

as Original Music Composer

1999

The Cider House Rules

as Original Music Composer

1998

Beloved

as Original Music Composer

1998

Beloved

as Orchestrator

1994

Only You

as Original Music Composer

1994

Only You

as Orchestrator

1991

Where Angels Fear to Tread

as Original Music Composer

1994

War of the Buttons

as Original Music Composer

1990

Life Is Sweet

as Original Music Composer

1984

Four Days in July

as Original Music Composer

2012

The Vow

as Original Music Composer

2011

One Day

as Original Music Composer

2002

The Truth About Charlie

as Original Music Composer

2002

Hart's War

as Original Music Composer

2000

The Closer You Get

as Original Music Composer

1993

Friends

as Original Music Composer

1993

Ethan Frome

as Original Music Composer

1990

Living with Dinosaurs

as Original Music Composer

1982

Privileged

as Original Music Composer

1995

Smoke

as Orchestrator

2005

Because of Winn-Dixie

as Original Music Composer

2001

The Emperor's New Clothes

as Original Music Composer

1993

Benny & Joon

as Original Music Composer

1994

Great Moments in Aviation

as Original Music Composer

2019

The Street

as Original Music Composer

2008

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

as Original Music Composer

2020

Godmothered

as Original Music Composer

1996

Emma

as Original Music Composer

1992

Flea Bites

as Original Music Composer

1990

The Widowmaker

as Original Music Composer

2024

The Return

as Original Music Composer

1990

Antonia and Jane

as Original Music Composer

1984

Last Day of Summer

as Original Music Composer

1987

The Falklands War: The Untold Story

as Original Music Composer

1990

Shoot to Kill

as Original Music Composer

1992

Rebecca's Daughters

as Original Music Composer

1995

Palookaville

as Original Music Composer

1999

The Other Sister

as Original Music Composer

2004

The Return of the Dancing Master

as Original Music Composer

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