Rachel Portman (born 1960)
Rachel Portman is one of the world’s most prominent film composers. She has been nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Original Score for Emma (1996), The Cider House Rules (1999), and Chocolat (2000), and won for Emma.
She was born in Haslemere, Surrey, England, and began composing at the age of 14. She studied music at Oxford where she started composing music for student films. The 1982 film Privileged that she scored was the first theatrical release from the Oxford Film Foundation and featured the screen debuts of Hugh Grant and Imogen Stubbs.
This is a suite of her film scores, including Bel Ami (2012), The Cider House Rules (1999), Chocolat (2000), Never Let Me Go (2010), and The Emperor’s New Clothes (2001).