Éric Serra

Composer. Born 9 September 1959 in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France.

Titles on Fi1m

Average Fi1m score

Born

9 September 1959, Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France

Active

1990–1995

Frequent collaborators

Dan Weil, Luc Besson, Patrice Ledoux, Thierry Arbogast

Biography

Éric Serra is a French film composer. He was born on 9 September 1959 in Saint-Mandé, France.

Serra met director Luc Besson in the early 1980s and scored Besson’s first feature, Le Dernier Combat (1983). He has composed the music for most of Besson’s subsequent films, including Nikita (1990), Léon: The Professional (1994), The Fifth Element (1997) and Lucy (2014). He also scored the James Bond film GoldenEye (1995).

Serra won the César Award for Best Original Music for The Big Blue (1988) and has received several further César nominations.

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Films and series

Beyond what we have reviewed, Éric Serra is known for Lucy (2014), The Fifth Element (1997), Arthur and the Invisibles (2006), Anna (2019), Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard (2009), Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds (2010), The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) and The Big Blue (1988).

GoldenEye

1995 · Music

Léon: The Professional

1994 · Music

Nikita

1990 · Music