Rolfe R. Kent (born 18 April 1963) is an English

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Biography

Kent was born in

St Albans St Albans () is a cathedral city in Hertfordshire, England, east of Hemel Hempstead and west of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Hatfield, north-west of London, south-west of Welwyn Garden City and south-east of Luton. St Albans was the first major ...

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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 The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science. In 1884, it merged with the Leeds School of Medicine (established 1831) and was renamed Y ...

in 1986. 1986-1988 he taught psychology at Leeds Polytechnic (now Leeds Beckett University) before moving to London to concentrate on film scoring. Kent resides in Los Angeles. He was nominated for a

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in the "Best Original Score" category for ''

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''. He also composed the music for the movies '' Slums of Beverly Hills'', '' The Men Who Stare at Goats'', '' Killers'', ''

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'', '' Legally Blonde'', '' About Schmidt'', '' Freaky Friday'', '' Mean Girls'', ''

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'', '' Town & Country'', '' Kate & Leopold'', '' The Matador'', '' 17 Again'', '' Reign Over Me'', '' Thank You for Smoking'', '' The Hunting Party'', '' The Lucky Ones'', '' Gun Shy'', '' Happy Campers'', ''

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'', '' Just Like Heaven'', '' Gambit'', '' Dom Hemingway'', '' Magic Camp'', '' Up in the Air'' and ''

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''. In addition, he composed the theme song to the Showtime Original Series ''

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'', for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music. In 2013, he scored

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's ''

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'', Nicolas Bary's ''Au bonheur des ogres'', and

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's directorial debut '' Bad Words''. He scored the 2017 film '' Downsizing'' by Alexander Payne. In 2015, the Dallas Chamber Symphony commissioned Kent to write an original film score for '' Bumping into Broadway'' starring Harold Lloyd. The score premiered live to film in concert on 18 February 2015 at Moody Performance Hall with Richard McKay conducting.

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 St Albans Varèse Sarabande Records artists {{UK-composer-stub