Roque Baños

Highest Rated: 98% Cell 211 (2009)

Lowest Rated: 13% The Man From Rome (2022)

Birthday: May 1, 1968

Birthplace: Jumilla, Murcia, Spain

A celebrated composer who has won acclaim in his native Spain and abroad, Roque Baños's career has collaborated with renowned Spanish director Álex de la Iglesia on "The Oxford Murders" and British visionary Jonathan Glazer on "Sexy Beast." Baños studied music throughout his youth, at Madrid's Royal Conservatory of Music. Afterwards he won a scholarship to Boston's famed Berklee College of Music, where he studied composition for film under David Spear, at that point a well-known composer in Hollywood. By the late '90s, Baños had begun to score a number of shorts, small features, and a television series, but it was in 2000 that he had his first big breaks, scoring Iglesia's tense horror thriller "La comunidad" and Glazer's feature debut, the gangster film "Sexy Beast." The praise he received for his work on these two features, coupled with the Goya nomination he earned for "La comunidad