Rachel Portman

Rachel Portman is a British composer born in 1960. With a music degree from Oxford University, she started composing in her early teens and remains one of the few females in the male-dominated world of film score composition.

She began to compose film scores in the early 1980s and, since then, has developed a reputation which has seen her score many significant Hollywood pictures including Chocolat and To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar. Her work for Emma in 1996 resulted in an Academy award for Best Original Score.

She has achieved additional success with her television scores which include The Storyteller.