---
name: "Geoff Barrow"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/geoff-barrow"
fi1m_id: "geoff-barrow"
imdb_id: "nm0057856"
tmdb_id: 78441
wikidata_id: "Q1373294"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "9 December 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 7
average_fi1m_score: 75
average_over: 7
updated: "2026-10-03T04:03:42.778107+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Geoff Barrow

## Identity

Geoff Barrow

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/geoff-barrow
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** geoff-barrow
- **IMDb ID:** nm0057856
- **TMDB ID:** 78441
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1373294
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Barrow, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1373294, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0057856/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/78441

Composer. Born 9 December 1971 in Walton in Gordano.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 9 December 1971, Walton in Gordano
- **Active:** 2010–present
- **Also known as:** Portishead
- **Frequently works with:** [Ben Salisbury](https://film.one/person/ben-salisbury.md), [Alex Garland](https://film.one/person/alex-garland.md), [Allon Reich](https://film.one/person/allon-reich.md), [Andrew Macdonald](https://film.one/person/andrew-macdonald.md), [Cailee Spaeny](https://film.one/person/cailee-spaeny.md), [Domhnall Gleeson](https://film.one/person/domhnall-gleeson.md), [Sonoya Mizuno](https://film.one/person/sonoya-mizuno.md), [Stephen McKinley Henderson](https://film.one/person/stephen-mckinley-henderson.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 80 (4), 2020s 69 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 75 to 74 across 7 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 5, Mystery 2, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 2, Science Fiction 2, Action 1, Documentary 1
- **Screen time:** 9 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $211m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Barrow, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1373294, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0057856/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/78441

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Ex Machina*](https://film.one/film/ex-machina.md) (82), [*Devs*](https://film.one/tv/devs.md) (68)
- **Netflix:** [*Black Mirror*](https://film.one/tv/black-mirror.md) (81), [*Steve*](https://film.one/film/steve.md) (68)
- **Apple TV:** [*Annihilation*](https://film.one/film/annihilation.md) (82)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Geoff Barrow is an English composer, music producer and founding member of the trip hop band Portishead. He has composed numerous film and television scores, often in collaboration with Ben Salisbury.

His credits include the scores for *Ex Machina* (2015), *Free Fire* (2017), *Annihilation* (2018), *Luce* (2019), *Men* (2022) and *Civil War* (2024). He has also worked on the television series *Black Mirror* (2016), *Devs* (2020), *Hanna* (2019–2020) and *Archive 81* (2022). Barrow was born on 9 December 1971.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (7)

- *Steve* (2025), Fi1m 68, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/steve.md)
- *Civil War* (2024), Fi1m 70, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/civil-war.md)
- *Devs* (2020), Fi1m 68, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/tv/devs.md)
- *Annihilation* (2018), Fi1m 82, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/annihilation.md)
- *Ex Machina* (2015), Fi1m 82, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/ex-machina.md)
- *Black Mirror* (2011), Fi1m 81, Music — [page](https://film.one/tv/black-mirror.md)
- *Exit Through the Gift Shop* (2010), Fi1m 76, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/exit-through-the-gift-shop.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *GAME* (2025), Writer, Producer
- *Steve* (2025), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/steve.md)
- *Civil War* (2024), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/civil-war.md)
- *Men* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *Devs* (2020), series, Original Music Composer — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/devs.md)
- *Luce* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *Hanna* (2019), series, Original Music Composer
- *Annihilation* (2018), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/annihilation.md)
- *Free Fire* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Couple in a Hole* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *Ex Machina* (2015), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/ex-machina.md)
- *Portishead - Live at Rock en Seine Festival 2014* (2014), Actor
- *Black Mirror* (2011), series, Original Music Composer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/black-mirror.md)
- *Exit Through the Gift Shop* (2010), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/exit-through-the-gift-shop.md)
- *To Kill a Dead Man* (1994), Writer

## Gallery

- ![Geoff Barrow performing with Portishead at Roskilde Festival 2011](https://film.one/media/person/697/gallery-749da6a06465.jpg) Geoff Barrow performing with Portishead at Roskilde Festival 2011 — Bill Ebbesen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Geoff_Barrow_-_Portishead_-_Roskilde_Festival_2011_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Geoff_Barrow_-_Portishead_-_Roskilde_Festival_2011_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Geoff Barrow performing with Portishead at Roskilde Festival 2011](https://film.one/media/person/697/gallery-08ada46557e5.jpg) Geoff Barrow performing with Portishead at Roskilde Festival 2011 — Bill Ebbesen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Geoff_Barrow_-_Portishead_-_Roskilde_Festival_2011.jpg/1280px-Geoff_Barrow_-_Portishead_-_Roskilde_Festival_2011.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Geoff Barrow at the mixing desk in State of Art Studio Bristol (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/697/gallery-a9b965b87ecc.jpg) Geoff Barrow at the mixing desk in State of Art Studio Bristol (2009) — Mintonfilm, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Geoff_Barrow%2C_at_the_mixing_desk_in_State_of_Art_Studio%2C_Bristol.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Geoff Barrow, performing with Portishead (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/697/gallery-299f8e8e047b.jpg) Geoff Barrow, performing with Portishead (2013) — Stefan64, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/GeoffBarrow13.jpg/1280px-GeoffBarrow13.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Geoff Barrow, Beak @ The Troubadour playing drums. (2010)](https://film.one/media/person/697/gallery-8974921963fc.jpg) Geoff Barrow, Beak @ The Troubadour playing drums. (2010) — Debi Del Grande, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Geoff_Barrow_at_The_Troubadour.jpg/1280px-Geoff_Barrow_at_The_Troubadour.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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