Female Composers-Maestrinas
by quietgiant2 | created - 10 Jun 2018 | updated - 26 Jan 2023 | PublicRelated Lists
Movie Composers-Maestros
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls003410756/
Opera Singers
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls052614697/
I would like to include Sylvia Constantinidis, but she not exist to IMDB
1. Sofiya Gubaydulina
Soundtrack | The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Sofiya Gubaydulina was born on October 24, 1931 in Chistopol, Tatarskaya ASSR, RSFSR, USSR [now Tatarstan, Russia]. She is a composer, known for The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), Vertikal (1966) and Den angela (1968).
2. Maria Newman
Music_department | Emily or Oscar
Recognized and Commended by the United States Congress, Maria Newman is an award-winning composer, violinist, violist and pianist. As an Annenberg Foundation Composition Fellow, a long-standing multiple Mary Pickford Foundation Composition Fellow, and violin soloist/featured composer in such ...
3. Anne Dudley
Composer | The Crying Game
English composer and pop musician. Was a prominent member of the synthpop band The Art of Noise. Now, a critically acclaimed composer. Won an Oscar for Best Original Music or Comedy Score for work in The Full Monty (1997). Since has composed music for more than forty films, including: The Crying ...
4. Yuki Kajiura
Soundtrack | .hack//SIGN
Yuki Kajiura was born on August 6, 1965 in Tokyo, Japan. She is a composer, known for .hack//SIGN (2002), Fate/Zero (2011) and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Movie: Mugen Train (2020).
5. Lisa Gerrard
Soundtrack | Gladiator
With a vision and vocal style that is as unique as it is precise and all-embracing, Lisa Gerrard has established herself as one of the world's most highly acclaimed film composers, winning a Golden Globe for her work on the score for 'Gladiator' with Hans Zimmer.
Lisa also received an Oscar ...
6. Laura Karpman
Composer | The Marvels
Five-time Emmy winning composer and composer of the Grammy-winning album Ask Your Mama, Laura Karpman's vibrant career spans film, television, video-game and concert music. Her distinguished credits include the series Underground, in collaboration with Raphael Saadiq and John Legend, Step, a ...
7. Jocelyn Pook
Composer | Eyes Wide Shut
Jocelyn Pook is one of the UK's most versatile composers, having written extensively for stage, screen, opera house and concert hall. Often remembered for her film score to Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, which won her a Chicago Film Award and a Golden Globe nomination, she has worked with some ...
8. Leah Curtis
Music_department | Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage
Leah Curtis was born in Canberra, Australia. She is known for Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005), Killing Ground (2016) and To Rest in Peace (2011).
9. Rachel Portman
Composer | Never Let Me Go
Rachel Portman, Composer
British composer Rachel Portman became the first female composer to win an Academy Award, which she received for the score of Emma. She was also the first female composer to win a Primetime Emmy Award, which she received for the film, Bessie. She has received two further ...
10. Sneha Khanwalkar
Composer | Gangs of Wasseypur
Sneha Khanwalkar was born on April 28, 1983 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. She is a composer and actress, known for Gangs of Wasseypur (2012), LSD: Love, Sex Aur Dhokha (2010) and Tabbar (2021). She is married to Kanu Behl.
11. Laura Rossi
Composer | London to Brighton
Laura Rossi has written music extensively for film and television, including the critically acclaimed London to Brighton, The Eichmann Show, starring Martin Freeman and Anthony LaPaglia, Song for Marion, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Terence Stamp, and Hurricane directed by David Blair.
She has also...
12. Pinar Toprak
Composer | Captain Marvel
Pinar Toprak is a Turkish-American Emmy-nominated composer, conductor and performer, who specializes in creating thematic scores for everything from superhero sagas and blockbuster comedies to TV series and dramas. With her work on Captain Marvel and Fortnite, Pinar is the first female composer to ...
13. Lesley Barber
Composer | Manchester by the Sea
A member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Class of 2016, film composer Lesley Barber writes music marked by intelligence and emotional depth. She has scored a string of award-winning and highly acclaimed projects, including Kenneth Lonergan's multi-award-winning and ...
14. Starr Parodi
Composer | Women Warriors: The Voices of Change
Starr Parodi first entered the public eye playing keyboards as part of the house band on the hit late-night Arsenio Hall Show. Since then she has become a vibrant part of the Los Angeles composing community, scoring hundreds of episodes of TV & film as well as being a passionate and innovative solo...
15. Michiru Ôshima
Composer | Shitsurakuen
Michiru Ôshima was born on March 16, 1961 in Nagasaki, Japan. She is a composer, known for Lost Paradise (1997), Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa (2005) and Memories of Tomorrow (2006).
16. Penka Kouneva
Composer | Pandora
Recognized in Hollywood as an extraordinary talent, Penka Kouneva has composed on iconic video games (League of Legends, Prince of Persia, The Mummy), the Netflix animated series Dragon Age: Absolution, a NASA theme park at the Kennedy Space Center, and numerous feature films (the Oscar contender ...
17. Hildur Guðnadóttir
Composer | Joker
Hildur Guðnadóttir was born on September 4, 1982 in Iceland. She is a composer, known for Joker (2019), Women Talking (2022) and Tár (2022). She is married to Sam Slater. They have one child.
18. Joanna Bruzdowicz
Composer | Sans toit ni loi
Joanna Bruzdowicz was born on May 17, 1943 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. She was a composer and producer, known for Vagabond (1985), J'ai oublié de te dire (2009) and Kung-Fu Master! (1988). She was married to Horst-Jürgen Tittel. She died on November 3, 2021 in Taillet, ...
19. Yôko Kanno
Composer | Kôkaku kidôtai: Stand Alone Complex
Yôko Kanno was born on March 18, 1964 in Sendai, Japan. She is a composer and writer, known for Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002), Wolf's Rain (2003) and Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001).
20. Yôko Shimomura
Soundtrack | Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Yôko Shimomura was born on October 19, 1967 in Hyogo, Japan. She is a composer, known for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018), Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope (2022) and Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (2016).
21. Hikaru Nanase
Soundtrack | Zone of the Enders Z.O.E
Hikaru Nanase is known for Zone of the Enders (2001), Infinite Stratos (2011) and Chrono Crusade (2003). Hikaru is married to Yoshiyuki Itô.
pseudonym used by Masumi Itō
22. Chanda Dancy
Composer | Lawmen: Bass Reeves
Chanda Dancy is known for Lawmen: Bass Reeves (2023), Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022) and Devotion (2022).
23. Miriam Cutler
Soundtrack | Arlington Road
Emmy nominated Composer, Miriam Cutler has an extensive background in scoring for independent film & TV projects, as well as two circuses. In June, 2013, Miriam was chosen by her peers to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a member of the Documentary Branch. In 2014 she was ...
24. Natalie Holt
Composer | Obi-Wan Kenobi
Natalie Holt is a multi-award-winning British composer, known for her work on Marvel Studios' Loki and the acclaimed Lucasfilm series Obi-Wan Kenobi. Upcoming projects include DC's Batgirl as well as Fox's female super hero feature The Princess.
Her film and television credits include the BAFTA ...
25. Amy Grant
Soundtrack | The Postman
Amy Grant was born on November 25, 1960, in Augusta, Georgia, U.S.A., the youngest of four daughters to Dr. Burton Paine Grant and his wife Gloria. She recorded her first album, a Christian album called, "Amy Grant" in 1977. It initially sold 250,000 copies, eventually selling over a million copies...
26. Shirley Walker
Music_department | True Lies
Shirley Walker was born in Napa, California in 1945. She was educated at Pleasant Hill High School; attended San Francisco State College on piano scholarship; studied composition with Dr. Roger Nixon; and piano with Harald Logan of Berkeley, California. She was soloist with San Francisco Symphony ...
27. Clair Marlo
For critically acclaimed composer and recording artist Clair Marlo, music has been an inspiring journey leading from her roots in the Istrian Coast of Croatia to the magnetic world of film and television.
In the area where Clair grew up, mandolins, bouzoukis, zournas, and other unusual ethnic ...
28. Saraswati Devi
Composer | Achhut Kanya
Saraswati Devi is known for Achhut Kanya (1936), Naqli Heera (1948) and Jawani Ki Hawa (1935).
29. Usha Khanna
Composer | Badal
Usha Khanna was born on October 7, 1941. She is a composer and actress, known for Badal (1966), Shabnam (1964) and Kab? Kyoon? Aur Kahan? (1970).
30. Sonya Belousova
Music_department | One Piece
Billboard chart-topping artist and acclaimed composer of "Toss A Coin To Your Witcher" Sonya Belousova created a sensation with her music from the mega-hit, The Witcher. With half a billion album streams, Belousova's soundtrack album charted on Billboard's Top 10 Soundtrack Albums, Top 20 Current ...
31. Sylvia Fine
Soundtrack | The Five Pennies
Sylvia Fine was born on August 29, 1913 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She was a producer and writer, known for The Five Pennies (1959), The Moon Is Blue (1953) and Vegas Vacation (1997). She was married to Danny Kaye. She died on October 28, 1991 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, ...
32. Gaili Schoen
Composer | Festival in Cannes
Since scoring Deja Vu (Vanessa Redgrave, Stephen Dillane) for director Henry Jaglom in 1997, film composer Gaili Schoen has scored an eclectic variety of feature films, including Paramount Classics' Festival in Cannes (Ron Silver, Maximilian Schell) and Porchlight Entertainment's Mothers and ...
33. Drum & Lace
Composer | Dickinson
Drum & Lace, aka Sofia degli Alessandri-Hultquist, is an artist and composer from Florence, Italy. Her music has been described as being genre-fluid and having a "chameleon-like nature" (A Closer Listen), melding together sampled field recordings, lush layers of synths, chamber instruments and ...
34. Angela Morley
Music_department | Peeping Tom
Angela Morley was born on March 10, 1924 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK. She was a composer, known for Peeping Tom (1960), Watership Down (1978) and The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella (1976). She was married to Christine Parker and Beryl Stott. She died on January 14, 2009 in ...
35. Elisabeth Lutyens
Composer | Mijn nachten met Susan, Olga, Albert, Julie, Piet & Sandra
Elisabeth Lutyens was born on July 9, 1906 in Bloomsbury, London, England, UK. She was a composer, known for My Nights with Susan, Olga, Albert, Julie, Piet & Sandra (1975), Never Take Candy from A Stranger (1960) and The Terrornauts (1967). She was married to Edward Clark and Ian Glennie. She ...
36. Debbie Wiseman
Composer | Lesbian Vampire Killers
One of the UK's most successful female music ambassadors, Debbie is in demand as a composer and conductor.
Over the past 25 years, there are probably few people in the UK who have not heard one of Debbie's film or television scores. Whether watching Stephen Fry bring Oscar Wilde to life on the big ...
37. Deborah Mollison
Composer | Heather's Painting
Deborah Mollison is an award winning composer, songwriter and pianist who is perhaps best known for her score to East is East which was one of the most commercially successful independent British movies ever produced in the UK. Deborah 's impressive diversity of style is born of a love of the ...
38. Deborah Lurie
Composer | Safe Haven
Deborah Lurie was born on March 9, 1974 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She is a composer, known for Safe Haven (2013), Dear John (2010) and Captain Marvel (2019).
39. Debbie Harry
Actress | Videodrome
Deborah Harry was born Angela Trimble on July 1, 1945 in Miami, Florida. At three months, she was adopted by Catherine (Peters) and Richard Smith Harry, and was raised in Hawthorne, New Jersey. In the 1960s, she worked as a Playboy Bunny and hung out at Max's Kansas City, a famous Warhol-inhabited ...
Blondie band-leader
40. Kyls Burtland
Composer | When the Camera Stopped Rolling
Kyls Burtland is known for When the Camera Stopped Rolling (2021), Here Come the Habibs! (2016) and Touch (2014).
41. Nora Orlandi
Soundtrack | Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Nora Orlandi was born on June 28, 1933 in Voghera, Lombardy, Italy. She is a composer and actress, known for Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004), Double Face (1969) and The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968).
42. Samantha Fonti
Composer | Moving Day
Samantha Fonti is known for Moving Day (2010), The 7th Hunt (2009) and You Can't Stop the Murders (2003).
43. Zoë Poledouris
Soundtrack | Starship Troopers
The elder of Basil Poledouris' two daughters, Zoë was born on August 25, 1973 in Los Angeles. Zoë grew up interpreting her father's music with movement on ice as a competitive figure skater. At the age of nine years, she performed a piece on the recorder for her father which became the melody for "...
44. Doreen Carwithen
Composer | Break in the Circle
Doreen Carwithen was born on November 15, 1922 in Haddenham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. She was a composer, known for Break in the Circle (1955), The Men of Sherwood Forest (1954) and Heights of Danger (1953). She was married to William Alwyn. She died on January 5, 2003 in Forncett St Peter, ...
45. Britta Phillips
Actress | Frances Ha
Britta Phillips wanted to pursue a career in music and decided to move to New York City when she was 19. Her dad did jingles in New York, and through his connections, she was able to audition for the cartoon series JEM, and was hired to sing the lead voice of JEM. The series ran from 1985 - 1988, ...
46. Julie Delpy
Actress | Trois couleurs: Blanc
Julie Delpy was born in Paris, France, in 1969 to Albert Delpy and Marie Pillet, both actors.
She was first featured in Jean-Luc Godard's Detective (1985) at the age of fourteen. She has starred in many American and European productions since then, including Disney's The Three Musketeers (1993), ...
47. Lady Gaga
Soundtrack | A Star Is Born
Lady Gaga, born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, is an American songwriter, singer, actress, philanthropist, dancer and fashion designer.
Gaga was born on March 28, 1986 in Manhattan, New York City, to Cynthia Louise (Bissett), a philanthropist and business executive, and Joseph Anthony ...
48. Dolores O'Riordan
Soundtrack | Mission: Impossible
Dolores Mary Eileen O'Riordan was born in Ballybricken, a town 8 miles outside Limerick on Sept. 6, 1971. Her parents are Eileen and Terrance. Terrance was in a wheelchair due to a motorcycle accident. Dolores was the youngest of seven children, and one of two girls. In the late eighties, Dolores ...
49. Maribeth Solomon
Composer | Earth: Final Conflict
Maribeth Solomon is known for Earth: Final Conflict (1997), Adderly (1986) and Babar: The Movie (1989).
50. Diane Warren
Soundtrack | Armageddon
Diane was born in Van Nuys, California, USA on September 7, 1956 to parents David and Flora Warren. She become a prolific writer in her neighborhood, writing songs every day and eventually surpassing 1,000 of them. Her dad (an insurance salesman) took Diane to see publishers who said she had ...
51. Kathryn Bostic
Composer | Clemency
Emmy nominated and award winning composer and singer/songwriter Kathryn Bostic is known for her work on film, TV, theater, and symphonic music. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Television Academy. Kathryn is a recipient of numerous fellowships and awards ...
52. Rachita Arora
Composer | Kaamyaab
Rachita Arora is known for Har Kisse Ke Hisse: Kaamyaab (2018), Shubh Mangal Savdhan (2017) and The Brawler (2017).
53. Eimear Noone
Music_department | World of Warcraft
Composer and conductor Eimear Noone made history in 2020 at the 92nd Academy Awards when she became the first woman to conduct the orchestra at the Oscars.
Recently, Eímear composed the score for the animated feature film, 'Two by Two: Overboard', which topped the UK Box Office in October 2020.
An ...
54. Wendy Carlos
Soundtrack | Ready Player One
Wendy Carlos, one of the great innovators in synthesized and electronic music, was born as Walter Carlos in Rhode Island on November 14, 1939. She underwent a sex-change operation in 1972, details of which she revealed during a surprise Playboy interview in 1979. Walter's last credited release is "...
55. Vivian Kubrick
Composer | Full Metal Jacket
Vivian Kubrick was born on August 5, 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and composer, known for Full Metal Jacket (1987), Shooting 'Full Metal Jacket' (1986) and Boots Oyson: sa katawan mo ... aagos ang dugo! (1989).
56. Marika Takeuchi
Music_department | Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War
Composer and pianist Marika Takeuchi, a native of Japan, began studies in classical music at 3. In addition to the piano, she played violin & horn for several years. She began studying composition & building a career as a composer at 18 at the Shobi Music College in Tokyo. Her early career includes...
57. Suzanne Ciani
Soundtrack | Super 8
Suzanne Ciani was born on June 4, 1946 in Indiana, USA. She is a composer, known for Super 8 (2011), The Stepford Wives (1975) and The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981).
58. Lydia Ainsworth
Soundtrack | Motherland: Fort Salem
Lydia Ainsworth is an internationally acclaimed singer, composer, and producer. In 2015 her debut album Right from Real was nominated for a Juno award for best electronic album and shortlisted for the Polaris Prize. In 2017 Lydia's second LP, a still bolder set of electro art pop titled Darling of ...
59. Danielle Egnew
Composer | Changing Spots
Danielle Marie Egnew was born in Billings, Montana on February 28th 1969, a town settled into by her farming great-grandparents who immigrated to America from Italy. Now a multi-award-winning Psychic / Medium, Artist, Actress, and Producer, Danielle Egnew's name can be found in the areas of ...
60. Lydia Kavina
Music_department | eXistenZ
Lydia Kavina is a composer, professional thereminist, and master teacher of the theremin. At age 9, Lydia began her study of the instrument with Professor Theremin, a first cousin of her grandfather. Her stage career as theremin player began at age 14. She studied musical theory and composition in ...
61. Bhavatharani R.
Music_department | Bharathi
Bhavatharani R. was born on July 23, 1976 in Madras, Tamil Nadu, India. She was a composer and actress, known for Bharathi (2000), Mankatha (2011) and Azhagai Irukirai... Bayamai Irukiradhu (2006). She was married to R. Sabariraj. She died on January 25, 2024 in Sri Lanka.
62. Charlie Chan
Music_department | Me Myself I
Charlie Chan is known for Me Myself I (1999), The Monkey's Mask (2000) and McLeod's Daughters (2001).
63. Man-Yee Lam
Composer | Long de xin
Man-Yee Lam is known for Heart of Dragon (1985), Love in a Fallen City (1984) and Nomad (1982).
64. Ichiko Hashimoto
Soundtrack | RahXephon
Ichiko Hashimoto is known for RahXephon (2002), RahXephon: The Motion Picture - Pluralitas Concentio (2003) and Tezuka's Barbara (2019).
65. Janette Mason
Composer | The Calling
Janette Mason is a versatile composer with an ability to combine the latest technology with her natural flair for orchestration to create a diverse array of atmospheres and moods. Her adaptable, thoughtful approach enable her to respond imaginatively to a variety of commissions; from documentary ...
66. Janice Torre
Soundtrack | The Alcoa Hour
Janice Torre was born on August 17, 1914 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. She was a writer, known for The Alcoa Hour (1955), Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962) and Song of My Heart (1948). She died on February 21, 1985.
67. Claire van Kampen
Music_department | Days and Nights
Claire van Kampen was born on November 3, 1953 in Marylebone, London, England, UK. She is a composer and director, known for Days and Nights (2014). She has been married to Mark Rylance since December 21, 1989. She was previously married to Chris van Kampen.
68. Cindy Valentine Leone
Soundtrack | Teen Witch
Valentine Leone was born in Italy in 1975 and raised in Toronto, Canada. She was accepted and studied music in The Royal Conservatory of Toronto. She worked with Jellybean Benitez on Atlantic's "Spilling the Beans" and composed songs for several albums for BMG, RCA,CBS, A&M, Polydor and Columbia. ...
69. Elena Kats-Chernin
Soundtrack | Mary and Max.
Elena Kats-Chernin was born on November 4, 1957 in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, USSR [now Uzbekistan]. She is a composer, known for Mary and Max (2009), Michelle's Story (2015) and The Devious Path (1928).
Menschen am Sonntag(1930) aka kaetz-Chernin
70. Lindsay Cooper
Music_department | Orlando
Lindsay Cooper was born on March 3, 1951 in Hornsey, England, UK. She was a composer and actress, known for Orlando (1992), Spy Trap (1972) and The Gold Diggers (1983). She died on September 18, 2013 in London, England, UK.
71. Jill Wisoff
Soundtrack | Creating Karma
Jill Wisoff is an American film composer, songwriter, and actress, born in Queens, NY. She holds a B. A. in theater from Bennington College and an M. F. A. in Writing with a concentration in fiction from the New School. Living in the Bronx prior to two years in Frankfurt, Germany, while her ...
72. Jammes Luckett
Soundtrack | May
Jammes Luckett is known for May (2002), The Woods (2006) and Living by the Gun (2011).
worked under various pseudonyms
73. Mica Levi
Composer | Under the Skin
Mica Levi is a musician and composer born in Guildford, UK and living in South East London.
She has previously written music for films including Under The Skin (2014, dir. Jonathan Glazer), Jackie (2016, dir. Pablo Larraín), Monos (2018, dir. Alejandro Landes), Zola (2020, dir. Janicza Bravo) and ...
74. Kat Green
Producer | Royally Ever After
Kat Green is known for Royally Ever After (2018), Nearlyweds (2013) and Captive (2023).
75. Miki Higashino
Composer | Gradius
Miki Higashino is known for Gradius (1985), Gradius III (1989) and Surprise Attack (1990).
76. Monica Dominique
Actress | Linus eller Tegelhusets hemlighet
Monica Dominique was born on July 20, 1940 in Västerås, Västmanlands län, Sweden. She is an actress and composer, known for Linus eller Tegelhusets hemlighet (1979), Repmånad eller Hur man gör pojkar av män (1979) and Höjdhoppar'n (1981). She is married to Carl-Axel Dominique.
77. Dulcie Holland
Composer | Pearlers of the Coral Sea
Dulcie Holland is known for Pearlers of the Coral Sea (1960), The Shearers (1950) and The Melbourne Wedding Belle (1953).
78. Marian McPartland
Soundtrack | The Human Stain
Marian McPartland was born on March 20, 1918 in Slough, Berkshire, England, UK. She was married to Jimmy McPartland. She died on August 20, 2013 in Port Washington, New York, USA.
79. Susie Ibarra
Music_department | Beckett
Susie Ibarra is known for Beckett (2021), Tabloid Vivant (2016) and The Cotabato Sessions (2014).
80. Sonia Wieder-Atherton
Actress | Fosse
Sonia Wieder-Atherton was born in 1961 in San Francisco, California, USA. She is a composer and actress, known for Fosse (2020), La crise (1992) and A Couch in New York (1996). She was previously married to Chantal Akerman.
81. Christine Ott
Music_department | Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
Christine Ott is a french composer, pianist, multi-instrumentist and 'ondist', one of the few Ondes Martenot masters in the world. "When, in 1928, Maurice Martenot creates for the first time the 'Ondes' that are to make him famous, he does not suspect that 80 years later, a small red-haired ...
82. Geri Allen
Soundtrack | Drugstore Cowboy
Geri Allen was born on June 12, 1957 in Pontiac, Michigan, USA. She was a composer and actress, known for Drugstore Cowboy (1989), Kansas City (1996) and Afterglow (1997). She was married to Wallace Roney. She died on June 27, 2017 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
83. Carla Bley
Composer | Mortelle randonnée
Carla Bley was born on May 11, 1936 in Oakland, California, USA. She was a composer, known for Deadly Circuit (1983), American Playhouse (1980) and Wear (2015). She was married to Michael Mantler and Paul Bley. She died on October 17, 2023 in Willow, New York, USA.
84. Kat Meoz
Composer | The Dust Storm
Kat Meoz is known for The Dust Storm (2016), Cuddly Toys (2022) and Spirit Riser (2024).
85. Riki Lindhome
Actress | The Last House on the Left
Riki Lindhome was born in Coudersport, Pennsylvania but grew up primarily in Portville, New York (about 80 miles south of Buffalo). Her first break came when Tim Robbins cast her in his hit play, "Embedded", which played at the Public Theater in New York City, Riverside Studios in London and The ...
86. Azalia Snail
Costume_department | The Bad Batch
Azalia Snail started as a poet/writer in New York City, as well as a musician during the heyday of the indie/lo-fi rock music scene. She toured extensively through the 1990s with bands like Low, Trumans Water, and The Grifters and has jammed with Beck, The Black Heart Procession, Sportsguitar, and ...
87. Jennifer Thomas
Composer | Etude for the Dreamer
A versatile and multi award-winning American pianist, violinist, and composer, Jennifer Thomas performed as a soloist with symphonies and orchestras before striking out on her own as a successful recording artist in 2007. Jennifer's compositions and classical covers have found favor on the ...
The Unoficials(2018) My Choice (2019) Official Site:https://jenniferthomasmusic.com/
88. Umm Kulthum
Actress | Wedad
Umm Kulthum was born on May 4, 1904 in Tammay al-Zahayrah, Daqahliyah, Egypt. She was an actress and composer, known for Wedad (1936), Nashid al-Amal (1937) and Aydah (1942). She died on February 3, 1975 in Cairo, Egypt.
89. Ella Fitzgerald
Soundtrack | Sphere
On Saturday, June 15th, 1996, an era in jazz singing came to an end, with the death of Ella Fitzgerald at her home in California. She was the last of four great female jazz singers (including Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, and Carmen McRae) who defined one of the most prolific eras in jazz vocal ...
90. Maria Schneider
Composer | David Bowie: Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)
Maria Schneider is known for David Bowie: Sue (Or in a Season of Crime) (2014), The Girls in the Band (2011) and David Bowie: The Last Five Years (2017).
91. Lee Pui Ming
Composer | Thick Lips Thin Lips
Lee Pui Ming was born in 1956 in Hong Kong, China. She is a composer, known for Thick Lips Thin Lips (1994), The Way We Are (2021) and Thank God I'm a Lesbian (1992).
or Pui Ming Lee?
92. Noriko Matsueda
Music_department | Chrono Trigger
Noriko Matsueda was born on December 18, 1971 in Tochigi, Japan. She is a composer, known for Chrono Trigger (1995), The Bouncer (2000) and Final Fantasy X-2 (2003).
93. Mary Finsterer
Music_department | Live Free or Die Hard
Mary Finsterer is known for Live Free or Die Hard (2007) and South Solitary (2010).
94. Amy Denio
Actress | To Cross the Rubicon
Member of Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame Amy Denio composes for modern dance, film, theater and TV. She has a four-octave vocal range and plays guitar, bass, alto sax, clarinet and accordion. She has written more than 400 works and has produced over 50 recordings solo and in collaboration with artists ...
95. Deborah Hurwitz
Music_department | #Stuck
Deborah Hurwitz is known for #Stuck (2014) and Elmopalooza! (1998).
96. Melba Liston
Composer | Smile Orange
Melba Liston was born on January 13, 1926 in Missouri, USA. She was an actress and composer, known for Smile Orange (1976). She died on April 23, 1999 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
97. Veronika Harcsa
Music_department | Zuhanórepülés
Veronika Harcsa was born on October 8, 1982 in Budapest, Hungary. She is an actress and composer, known for Zuhanórepülés (2007), Para (2008) and Night Falls (2023).
98. Caroline Henderson
Actress | Der var engang en dreng - som fik en lillesøster med vinger
Caroline Henderson was born in Stockholm (Sweden) but has lived in Copenhagen (Denmark) since 1983. She is known for her work on Always Yours (2007), Max Pinlig (2008) and Gooseboy (2019).
Caroline Henderson is starring as a series regular in 'Vikings: Valhalla' - the new Netflix Original spin-off ...
99. Toshiko Akiyoshi
Actress | Sommer-weekend
Composer and pianist who has made many records, she was educated at the Music Academy of Dairen and the Berklee School of Music (the latter on scholarship). She studied with Margaret Chaloff. She was piano soloist with the Japan Philharmonic, and a pianist in dance bands from 1948, forming the ...
100. Majken Christensen
Composer | #TheAssignment
Majken Christensen is known for #TheAssignment (2013).
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