Rolfe R. Kent (born 18 April 1963) is an English
film score composer
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Biography
Kent was born in
St Albans
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Hertfordshire
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, England. He attended
St Albans School, worked at Balrossie School in Renfrewshire, Scotland, then graduated in Psychology (BSc) from the
University of Leeds in 1986. 1986-1988 he taught psychology at
Leeds Polytechnic (now Leeds Beckett University) before moving to London to concentrate on film scoring.
Rolfe lives in
Los Angeles,
California, United States. He was nominated for a
Golden Globe Award
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in the "Best Original Score" category for ''
Sideways''. He also composed the music for the movies ''
Slums of Beverly Hills'', ''
The Men Who Stare at Goats'', ''
Killers'', ''
Wedding Crashers'', ''
Legally Blonde'', ''
About Schmidt'', ''
Freaky Friday'', ''
Mean Girls'', ''
Election'', ''
Town & Country'', ''
Kate & Leopold'', ''
The Matador'', ''
17 Again'', ''
Reign Over Me'', ''
Thank You for Smoking'', ''
The Hunting Party'', ''
The Lucky Ones'', ''
Gun Shy'', ''
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past'', ''
Just Like Heaven Just like Heaven may refer to:
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* ''Just Like Heaven'' (1930 film), a drama starring Anita Louise and David Newell
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'', ''
Gambit'', ''
Dom Hemingway'', ''
Magic Camp'', ''
Up in the Air'' and ''
Rock Dog''. In addition, he composed the theme song to the
Showtime
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Original Series ''
Dexter
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'', for which he was nominated for the
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music. In 2013, he scored
Jason Reitman
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's ''
Labor Day
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'', Nicolas Bary's ''Au bonheur des ogres'', and
Jason Bateman
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's directorial debut ''
Bad Words''. He scored the 2017 film ''
Downsizing'' by Alexander Payne.
References
External links
Official site*
1963 births
Alumni of the University of Leeds
English film score composers
English male film score composers
Living people
Musicians from Hertfordshire
People from St Albans
Varèse Sarabande Records artists
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