Rachel Portman is a British composer born in 1960. With a music degree from Oxford University, she started composing in her early teens and remains one of the few females in the male-dominated world of film score composition.
She began to compose film scores in the early 1980s and, since then, has developed a reputation which has seen her score many significant Hollywood pictures including Chocolat.




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