Rachel Portman
Born	December 11, 1960 Haslemere, England

Rachel Mary Berkeley Portman^[1] (born December 11, 1960)^[1] is a British composer, best known for her film work. She was the first female composer to win an Academy Award in the category of Best Original Score (for Emma in 1996). (Previously, female songwriters Barbra Streisand, in 1977, Buffy Sainte-Marie, in 1983, and Carly Simon, in 1989, each won Oscars, but in the category of Best Original Song).

Contents 1 Biography 2 Scores 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Biography

Portman was born December 11, 1960 in Haslemere, England, the daughter of Penelope (née Mowat) and Berkeley Charles Portman.^[1] She was educated at Charterhouse School and Worcester College, Oxford.

Portman was nominated for an Academy Award for her scores for The Cider House Rules in 1999 and Chocolat in 2000. She has also composed the scores for dozens of other feature films, as well as an unused score for the film Dangerous Beauty. For television, she composed the score for all thirteen episodes of Jim Henson's The Storyteller, and two episodes of The Jim Henson Hour ("Monster Maker" and "Living with Dinosaurs").

Her other works include a children's opera, The Little Prince (which was later adapted for television) and a musical based upon the Laura Ingalls Wilder books Little House on the Prairie. Portman was commissioned to write a piece of choral music for the BBC Proms series in August 2007.

She married film producer Uberto Pasolini in 1995. They have three children: Anna, Giulia and Niky.

[edit] Scores

Grey Gardens (2009) Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008) The Duchess (2008) Infamous (2006) The Lake House (2006) Oliver Twist (2005) Define Normal (2005) Because of Winn-Dixie (2005) The Manchurian Candidate (2004) Lard (2004) Mona Lisa Smile (2003) The Human Stain (2003) Nicholas Nickleby (2002) The Truth About Charlie (2002) Hart's War (2002) The Emperor's New Clothes (2001) Chocolat (2000) The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) The Closer You Get (2000) The Cider House Rules (1999) Ratcatcher (1999) The Other Sister (1999) Beloved (1998) Home Fries (1998) Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997) Addicted to Love (1997) Marvin's Room (1996) Emma (1996) The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996) To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995) Palookaville (1995) Smoke (1995) A Pyromaniac's Love Story (1995) The Road to Wellville (1994) Only You (1994) Sirens (1994) War of the Buttons (1994)

Friends (1993) The Joy Luck Club (1993) Benny & Joon (1993) Ethan Frome (1993) Great Moments in Aviation (1993) Used People (1992) Mr. Wakefield's Crusade (1992) (TV) Rebecca's Daughters (1992) The Cloning of Joanna May (1992) Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991) Antonia and Jane (1991) Flea Bites (1991) (TV) Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1990) Shoot to Kill (1990) Life Is Sweet (1990) The Storyteller: Greek Myths (1990) The Widowmaker (1990) The Woman in Black (1989) Young Charlie Chaplin (1989) Monster Maker (1989) Living with Dinosaurs (1989) Precious Bane (1989) (TV) The Storyteller (1988) TV Series Loving Hazel (1988) Sometime in August (1988) 1914 All Out (1987) The Short and Curlies (1987) The Falklands War: The Untold Story (1987) 90 Degrees South (1987) Sharma and Beyond (1986) Good as Gold (1986) A Little Princess (1986) Four Days in July (1985) Reflections (1984) Last Day of Summer (1984) Privileged (1982)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Rachel Portman at the Internet Movie Database
• Rachel Portman at Chester Novello
• Rachel Portman at The Danish Filmmusic Society (DFS)

Persondata
NAME	Portman, Rachel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	British composer
DATE OF BIRTH	December 11, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH	Haslemere, United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH