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Rolfe Kent
Highest Rated: 97% Sideways (2004)
Lowest Rated: 10% Killers (2010)
Birthday: Apr 18, 1963
Birthplace: St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Rolfe Kent has composed music for a wide variety of feature films, but his most notable contribution is the main theme music to Showtime's "Dexter," the popular TV series about Dexter Morgan, Miami PD's blood splatter expert by day and serial killer by night. The signature music is a perfect accompaniment to the unique visuals of each episode's opening credits, during which quick cuts of Dexter performing typical morning routines (flossing his teeth, tying his shoes) are juxtaposed with the acts of a serial killer (brandishing a garrote, tying up a captive). Kent has also served as composer or conductor on projects that range from gross-out sex comedies like 2005's "Wedding Crashers" to more cerebral fare like 2009's "Up in the Air" (George Clooney's portrait of a man who starts to question his belief that the best life is one free of emotional attachments). That wasn't Kent's only project with Clooney that year: They reunited on the military satire "The Men Who Stare at Goats."
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| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Legally Blonde 3 | Original Music | - | 2025 |
| 28% | No Score Yet | North Star | Original Music | - | 2023 |
| 28% | 22% | He's All That | Original Music | - | 2021 |
| 57% | 54% | Vacation Friends | Original Music | - | 2021 |
| 84% | 60% | Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made | Original Music | - | 2020 |
| 38% | 45% | Magic Camp | Original Music | - | 2020 |
| 27% | 41% | Phil | Original Music | - | 2019 |
| 93% | 83% | Stan & Ollie | Original Music | $5.5M | 2018 |
| 47% | 25% | Downsizing | Original Music | $24.4M | 2017 |
| 54% | 52% | Crash Pad | Original Music | - | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | 61% | Tokyo Project | Original Music | - | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Little Spirou | Original Music | - | 2017 |
| 46% | 48% | Rock Dog | Original Music | $9.4M | 2016 |
| 17% | 56% | Vampire Academy | Original Music | $7.8M | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | 12% | The Scapegoat | Original Music | - | 2013 |
| 58% | 38% | Dom Hemingway | Original Music | $518.1K | 2013 |
| 34% | 54% | Labor Day | Original Music | $13.4M | 2013 |
| 18% | 23% | Gambit | Original Music | - | 2012 |
| 80% | 49% | Young Adult | Original Music | $16.3M | 2011 |
| 47% | 53% | Mr. Popper's Penguins | Original Music | $68.2M | 2011 |
| 28% | 60% | Charlie St. Cloud | Original Music | $31.1M | 2010 |
| 10% | 41% | Killers | Original Music | $47.0M | 2010 |
| 90% | 79% | Up in the Air | Original Music | $83.8M | 2009 |
| 51% | 39% | The Men Who Stare at Goats | Original Music | $32.4M | 2009 |
| 28% | 40% | Ghosts of Girlfriends Past | Original Music | $52.2M | 2009 |
| 57% | 67% | 17 Again | Original Music | $64.1M | 2009 |
| 38% | 54% | The Lucky Ones | Original Music | $183.1K | 2008 |
| 25% | 42% | Sex and Death 101 | Original Music | $23.6K | 2007 |
| 55% | 67% | The Hunting Party | Original Music | $876.7K | 2007 |
| 64% | 81% | Reign Over Me | Original Music | $19.7M | 2007 |
| 23% | 52% | Failure to Launch | Original Music | $88.7M | 2006 |
| 86% | 87% | Thank You for Smoking | Original Music | $24.8M | 2005 |
| 75% | 66% | The Matador | Original Music | $12.6M | 2005 |
| 75% | 70% | Wedding Crashers | Original Music | $209.2M | 2005 |
| 97% | 79% | Sideways | Original Music | $71.5M | 2004 |
| 62% | 32% | The Last Shot | Original Music | $463.7K | 2004 |
| 84% | 66% | Mean Girls | Original Music | $86.1M | 2004 |
| 88% | 58% | Freaky Friday |
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$110.2M | 2003 |
| 36% | 38% | Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde | Original Music | $89.8M | 2003 |
| 85% | 74% | About Schmidt | Original Music | $65.0M | 2002 |
| 39% | 43% | 40 Days and 40 Nights | Original Music | $37.9M | 2002 |
| 57% | 62% | Happy Campers | Original Music | - | 2001 |
| 52% | 62% | Kate & Leopold | Original Music | $47.1M | 2001 |
| 71% | 72% | Legally Blonde | Original Music | $96.5M | 2001 |
| 13% | 14% | Town & Country | Music | $6.7M | 2001 |
| 42% | 56% | Someone Like You | Original Music | $27.3M | 2001 |
| 83% | 45% | Nurse Betty | Original Music | $25.2M | 2000 |
| 26% | 36% | Gun Shy | Original Music | $1.6M | 2000 |
| 83% | 59% | Don't Go Breaking My Heart | Original Music | - | 1999 |
| 77% | 55% | Oxygen | Original Music | - | 1999 |
| 92% | 79% | Election | Original Music | $14.9M | 1999 |
| 81% | 68% | Slums of Beverly Hills | Original Music | $5.5M | 1998 |
| 50% | 57% | The Theory of Flight | Original Music | $72.0K | 1998 |
| 62% | 76% | The House of Yes | Original Music | $636.2K | 1997 |
| 81% | 74% | Citizen Ruth | Original Music | $278.5K | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | Mercy | Producer | - | 1995 |
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| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 95% | 77% | Stonehouse | Original Music | 2023 |