Biography
Rolfe R. Kent (born 18 April 1963) is an English film score composer. Kent was born in St Albans, Hertfordshire, 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.
Kent resides in Los Angeles. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award 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, Gambit, Dom Hemingway, Magic Camp, Up in the Air and Rock Dog. In addition, he composed the theme song to the Showtime Original Series Dexter, for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music. In 2013, he scored Jason Reitman's Labor Day, Nicolas Bary's Au bonheur des ogres, and Jason Bateman's directorial debut Bad Words. He scored the 2017 film Downsizing by Alexander Payne.
Filmography
all 66
Movies 65
TV Shows 1
Producer 1
North Star (2023)
Stonehouse (2023)
He's All That (2021)
Vacation Friends (2021)
Magic Camp (2020)
Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made (2020)
Phil (2019)
Stan & Ollie (2018)
Downsizing (2017)
Crash Pad (2017)
Little Spirou (2017)
Tokyo Project (2017)
Rock Dog (2016)
The Prince and the 108 Demons (2014)
Vampire Academy (2014)
Labor Day (2013)
Dom Hemingway (2013)
The Scapegoat (2013)
Bad Words (2013)
Gambit (2012)
Young Adult (2011)
Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)
Troupers (2011)
Cinema Verite (2011)
Charlie St. Cloud (2010)
Killers (2010)
Up in the Air (2009)
The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
17 Again (2009)
The Lucky Ones (2008)
The Hunting Party (2007)
Sex and Death 101 (2007)
Reign Over Me (2007)
Failure to Launch (2006)
Just Like Heaven (2005)
Thank You for Smoking (2005)
Ninette (2005)
Wedding Crashers (2005)
The Matador (2005)
Sideways (2004)
The Last Shot (2004)
Mean Girls (2004)
Freaky Friday (2003)
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)
About Schmidt (2002)
40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)
Kate & Leopold (2001)
Legally Blonde (2001)
Town & Country (2001)
Someone Like You... (2001)
Happy Campers (2001)
Mexico City (2000)
Nurse Betty (2000)
Gun Shy (2000)
Oxygen (1999)
Election (1999)
Don't Go Breaking My Heart (1999)
The Theory of Flight (1999)
Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)
The House of Yes (1997)
Citizen Ruth (1996)
Mercy (1995)
Dead Connection (1994)
Finding Interest (1994)
Harvest Moon
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GenderMale
Birthday1963-04-18 (60 years old)
Birth PlaceSt Albans, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
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