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name: "Laurent Perez del Mar"
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roles: ["Composer"]
born: "10 March 1974"
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average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T07:13:58.119953+00:00"
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# Laurent Perez del Mar

Composer. Born 10 March 1974 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 10 March 1974, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
- **Also known as:** Laurent Perez
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16653297, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2082465/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1125823

## Biography

Laurent Perez del Mar is a French film composer, also credited as Laurent Perez. Born in Nice in 1974, he studied music at the Conservatoire in Nice and Paris, majoring in composition, and also trained in medicine.

He began his career scoring shorts, commercials and television before writing his first feature score for the 2007 animated film *Fear(s) of the Dark*. Perez del Mar is best known for his work on the animated feature *The Red Turtle* (2016), for which he received the IFMCA Award for Best Original Score for an Animated Feature. Other notable scores include *Zarafa* (2012), *Wolfy the Incredible Secret* (2013), *I Kill Giants* (2017), *The Mystery of Henri Pick* (2019) and *My Son* (2021).

In 2017 he became a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Académie des César, and was appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

*Sources: imdb.com, laurentperezdelmar.com, filmmusiccritics.org, fr.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Red Turtle* (2016), Fi1m 84, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/the-red-turtle.md)

## Also known for

- *I Kill Giants* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *My Son* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *The Mystery of Henri Pick* (2019), Music
- *The Invisibles* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *Antigang* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *Animal Kingdom: Let's Go Ape* (2015), Music
- *My Son* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *The Dazzled* (2019), Music

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