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Rachel Portman

1960 - Today

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Rachel Mary Berkeley Portman (born 11 December 1960) is a British composer. She was the first female composer to win the Academy Award for Best Original Score (for Emma), and was nominated two further times (for The Cider House Rules and Chocolat). She has composed more than one hundred scores for film, television and theatre, and has collaborated with the BBC on several projects, including an opera based on The Little Prince and a choral symphony called The Water Diviner. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Rachel Portman is the 1,258th most popular composer (down from 1,239th in 2024), the 4,387th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,055th in 2019) and the 71st most popular British Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Rachel Portman ranks 1,258 out of 1,451. Before her are Antón García Abril, George Alexander Macfarren, Frigyes Hidas, Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, Virgil Thomson, and Alberto Nepomuceno. After her are Kōsaku Yamada, Kurt Thomas, Józef Kozłowski, Georg Friedrich Haas, Marco Beltrami, and H. C. Robbins Landon.

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Among people born in 1960, Rachel Portman ranks 349. Before her are Jaron Lanier, Plamen Oresharski, Youth, Zoran Živković, Robert John Burke, and Ivan Gudelj. After her are Mikhail Tyurin, Simon Beckett, Eliane Elias, Najat Aatabou, Dmitri Vrubel, and Nils Petter Molvær.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Rachel Portman ranks 4,388 out of 8,785. Before her are Steve Cooper (1979), James Mellaart (1925), Sonia Robertson (1947), Boston Corbett (1832), Sax Rohmer (1883), and Tony Trimmer (1943). After her are John Grierson (1898), Maxwell T. Masters (1833), Richard Rodney Bennett (1936), William Muir (1819), Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764), and Oswald Szemerényi (1913).

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Among COMPOSERS In United Kingdom

Among composers born in United Kingdom, Rachel Portman ranks 71. Before her are Adolph Deutsch (1897), Craig Armstrong (1959), Granville Bantock (1868), Thomas Campion (1567), Ivor Novello (1893), and George Alexander Macfarren (1813). After her are Gerald Finzi (1901), Peter Warlock (1894), Maurice Greene (1696), Nicholas Hooper (1952), Thomas Tomkins (1572), and Samuel Arnold (1740).

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