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Born | Isobel Noeline Waller-Bridge 23 April 1984 Hammersmith, London England |
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Occupation | Composer |
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Website | isobelwaller-bridge |
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Isobel Noeline Waller-Bridge (born 23 April 1984)[ not verified in body ] is an English composer who is known for her scores for film, television, and theatre, along with her works for electronic music and contemporary classical music. [2]
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Born Isobel Noeline Waller-Bridge on 23 April 1984,[ citation needed ] she is the daughter of Theresa Mary Waller-Bridge (née Clerke), an employee of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers, and Michael Cyprian Waller-Bridge, founder of the electronic trading platform Tradepoint. [3] [4] [5] She has two younger siblings: Jasper and Phoebe.[ citation needed ] The family from which Waller-Bridge descends were landed gentry of Cuckfield, Sussex. [6] [7] On her father's side, she is a descendant of the Revd Sir Egerton Leigh, 2nd Baronet, and a distant relative of politician and author Egerton Leigh; her maternal grandfather was Sir John Edward Longueville Clerke, 12th baronet, of Hitcham, Buckinghamshire. [8] [ verification needed ]
Waller-Bridge earned an bachelor's degree in music from Edinburgh University, and a master's degree from King's College London.[ citation needed ] She was also awarded a scholarship from the Royal Academy of Music, where she received another diploma.[ citation needed ] [9] [ better source needed ]
Waller-Bridge composed the soundtrack for the BBC comedy-drama series Fleabag (2016–2019), which was written by and starred her sister, Phoebe Waller-Bridge. [10] She also wrote the score for the feature films Vita and Virginia (2018) and Emma (2020). [11] [12] In 2021, she scored Netflix's Munich: The Edge of War, [13] which was released by Milan Records/Sony Music, and The Phantom of the Open. [14]
Waller-Bridge is also a performer, playing in venues such as the St James Theatre and Union Chapel. In 2016, her music appeared on albums with the Icelandic composers Ólafur Arnalds and Jóhann Jóhannsson. [9] In 2021, she was commissioned by the Philharmonia Orchestra to write music for their Human/Nature series. Her piece, Temperatures, was premiered in November 2021, conducted by Pekka Kuusisto at the Royal Festival Hall. [15] In 2020, she was commissioned by Sarah Burton to score Alexander McQueen’s Spring/Summer 2020 collection at Paris Fashion Week. [16] In 2021, she collaborated with ballet dancer and actress Francesca Hayward to score her dance film, Siren. [17]
For theatre, Waller-Bridge worked on Florian Zeller's The Son (West End) [18] and The Forest (Hampstead Theatre), [19] Woyzeck, adapted by Jack Thorne (Old Vic), [20] Blood Wedding (Young Vic), [21] and Knives in Hens (Donmar Warehouse). [22]
In June 2022, it was announced that Waller-Bridge would be providing an original score for an animated short film of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse , which aired on BBC One at Christmas 2022. [23] She produced the soundtrack to Sweetpea in 2024 [24]
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Michelle Dockery is Waller-Bridge's sister-in-law. [25]