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Lorne Balfe

Lorne Balfe

Sound1976Inverness, Scotland, UK

Biography

Lorne Balfe (born 23 February 1976) is a Scottish composer of film, television and video game scores. 

A veteran of Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions, Balfe's scoring credits include the films Megamind, Penguins of Madagascar, Home, Terminator Genisys, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, The Lego Batman Movie, Mission: Impossible – Fallout and its sequel Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Bad Boys for Life and its sequel Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Black Widow, Black Adam, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Gran Turismo, and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, as well as the video games Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Assassin's Creed III, Crysis 2, Skylanders, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. He has also scored the television series The Bible, Marcella, The Crown, and Genius, the latter for which he earned a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music. He also collaborates with directors Michael Bay, Chris McKay, Christopher McQuarrie, Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah, and Mikael Håfström.

He composed the new fanfare for Skydance Media transcribed as There's a World, There's A Moon. Balfe also composed the Annapurna Pictures deep note opening logo.

Balfe is also involved in The Game Awards, serving as the conductor of the Game Awards Orchestra and the composer and arranger of several musical performances featured at the show. Since The Game Awards 2018, he has composed a medley of the themes of the six nominees for Game of the Year each year, presented as the award at the end of the show.

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Acting History

2026
7 Dogs
Original Music Composer
The Dinosaurs
TVOriginal Music Composer
2025
Hallow Road
Original Music Composer
Novocaine
Original Music Composer
The Cut
Original Music Composer
The Naked Gun
Original Music Composer
We Are Storror
Original Music Composer
The Woman in the Yard
Original Music Composer
The War Between the Land and the Sea
TVOriginal Music Composer
The Hack
TVOriginal Music Composer
2024
Carry-On
Original Music Composer
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
Original Music Composer
Decoded
Original Music Composer
Apartment 7A
Music Score Producer
Slingshot
Music Score Producer
Argylle
Original Music Composer
Stockholm Bloodbath
Music Producer
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
Original Music Composer
Young Woman and the Sea
Music Score Producer
2023
Luther: The Fallen Sun
Original Music Composer
Tetris
Original Music Composer
Ghosted
Original Music Composer
When We Danced
Music Producer
Gran Turismo
Original Music Composer
Life on Our Planet
TVMusic Producer
Life on Our Planet
TVOriginal Music Composer
2022
Ambulance
Original Music Composer
Infinite Storm
Original Music Composer
Secret Headquarters
Original Music Composer
Black Adam
Original Music Composer
The Forgiven
Original Music Composer
Top Gun: Maverick
Music Score Producer
Ticket to Paradise
Original Music Composer
2021
Rumble
Original Music Composer
Resurrection
Original Music Composer
Silent Night
Original Music Composer
Outside the Wire
Original Music Composer
Skyanders: Awaken of Evil
Original Music Composer
The Tomorrow War
Original Music Composer
Black Widow
Original Music Composer
Dopesick
TVOriginal Music Composer
The Wheel of Time
TVOriginal Music Composer
2020
Rebuilding Paradise
Original Music Composer
Songbird
Original Music Composer
Bad Boys for Life
Original Music Composer
Jungleland
Original Music Composer
Military Wives
Original Music Composer
The Reagans
TVOriginal Music Composer
2019
Gemini Man
Original Music Composer
Driven
Music Producer
Looking Up
Theme Song Performance
Georgetown
Original Music Composer
6 Underground
Original Music Composer
Crawl
Executive Music Producer
Where's My Roy Cohn?
Original Music Composer
Master Moley by Royal Invitation
Original Music Composer
Ad Astra
Additional Music
His Dark Materials
TVOriginal Music Composer
2018
Studio 54
Original Music Composer
12 Strong
Original Music Composer
The Hurricane Heist
Original Music Composer
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Original Music Composer
Pacific Rim: Uprising
Original Music Composer
The Cry
TVOriginal Music Composer
2017
Ghost in the Shell
Original Music Composer
Churchill
Original Music Composer
The Florida Project
Original Music Composer
Geostorm
Original Music Composer
Adam: The Prophet
Original Music Composer
Adam: The Mirror
Original Music Composer
Firebase
Original Music Composer
Zygote
Original Music Composer
Rakka
Original Music Composer
The Lego Batman Movie
Original Music Composer
Le Mans: Racing Is Everything
TVOriginal Music Composer
2016
War on Everyone
Original Music Composer
The Crown
TVOriginal Music Composer
The Crown
TVMusic
2015
Bone in the Throat
Original Music Composer
Summer of '92
Original Music Composer
American Hero
Original Music Composer
Captive
Original Music Composer
Dough
Original Music Composer
Home
Original Music Composer
Terminator Genisys
Original Music Composer
Wasted Beauty
Original Music Composer
Sons of Liberty
TVOriginal Music Composer
2014
Manny
Original Music Composer
Gloria
Original Music Composer
Almost Home
Original Music Composer
Blackwood
Original Music Composer
Son of God
Original Music Composer
Penguins of Madagascar
Original Music Composer
The Driver
TVOriginal Music Composer
2013
American Masters: Salinger
Original Music Composer
Girl Rising
Original Music Composer
The Frozen Ground
Original Music Composer
Red Wing
Original Music Composer
Not Another Happy Ending
Original Music Composer
Side by Side
Original Music Composer
2012
The Sweeney
Original Music Composer
Restless
TVOriginal Music Composer
2011
The Dilemma
Original Music Composer
Megamind: The Button of Doom
Original Music Composer
Five
Original Music Composer
Rango
Additional Music
Ironclad
Original Music Composer
2010
Sodales
Original Music Composer
Inception
Additional Music
Megamind
Original Music Composer
2009
Sherlock Holmes
Music Producer
2008
2006
Mystery of the Megavolcano
Original Music Composer
2004
Shoebox Zoo
TVOriginal Music Composer
2003
Ancient Warriors
Original Music Composer

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Personal Info

Known For
Sound
Gender
Male
Birthday
2/23/1976(50 years old)
Place of Birth
Inverness, Scotland, UK