---
name: "Lesley Barber"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lesley-barber"
fi1m_id: "lesley-barber"
imdb_id: "nm0053427"
tmdb_id: 39827
wikidata_id: "Q594694"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "1 January 1962"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-21T01:28:56.320409+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."
---

# Lesley Barber

## Identity

Lesley Barber

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lesley-barber
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lesley-barber
- **IMDb ID:** nm0053427
- **TMDB ID:** 39827
- **Wikidata ID:** Q594694
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley_Barber, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q594694, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0053427/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/39827

Composer. Born 1 January 1962 in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 1 January 1962, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
- **Active:** 2016–present
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 89 (1), 2020s 62 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley_Barber, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q594694, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0053427/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/39827

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Manchester by the Sea*](https://film.one/film/manchester-by-the-sea.md) (89)
- **Hulu:** [*Bonjour Tristesse*](https://film.one/film/bonjour-tristesse.md) (62)

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

## Biography

Lesley Barber is a Canadian composer, orchestrator, conductor and pianist. She trained at the University of Toronto, where she earned a master's degree in music composition in 1988, and began her career scoring more than twenty productions for the alternative theatre scene in Toronto.

She is known for her film scores for *Manchester by the Sea* (2016) and *You Can Count on Me* (2000), both directed by Kenneth Lonergan, as well as *Mansfield Park* (1999), *Hysterical Blindness* (2002), *When Night Is Falling* (1995) and the animated series *Little Bear*. Other credits include *Late Night* (2019), *Nappily Ever After* (2018), *Irreplaceable You* (2018), *The Moth Diaries* (2011) and *Bonjour Tristesse* (2024). Barber has also composed for documentaries such as *How to Change the World* and for Yo-Yo Ma's *Inspired by Bach* series. In 2016 she was the first woman featured on The Hollywood Reporter's Composer Roundtable.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, lesleybarber.com, web.archive.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Bonjour Tristesse* (2025), Fi1m 62, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/bonjour-tristesse.md)
- *Manchester by the Sea* (2016), Fi1m 89, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/manchester-by-the-sea.md)

## Complete filmography (31)

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

- *Bonjour Tristesse* (2025), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/bonjour-tristesse.md)
- *Diane Warren: Relentless* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *Maybe I Do* (2023), Original Music Composer
- *American Woman* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *Late Night* (2019), Orchestrator, Original Music Composer
- *Nappily Ever After* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Boarding School* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Irreplaceable You* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Bird* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Beaches* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Manchester by the Sea* (2016), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/manchester-by-the-sea.md)
- *How to Change the World* (2014), Original Music Composer
- *Pete's Christmas* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *The Moth Diaries* (2011), Original Music Composer
- *A Child's Garden of Poetry* (2011), Music
- *Death in Love* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *A Thousand Years of Good Prayers* (2007), Original Music Composer, Music
- *Comeback Season* (2006), Original Music Composer
- *We Don't Live Here Anymore* (2004), Original Music Composer
- *Marion Bridge* (2003), Original Music Composer
- *Hysterical Blindness* (2002), Original Music Composer
- *The Little Bear Movie* (2001), Original Music Composer
- *This Might Be Good* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *Luminous Motion* (2000), Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
- *You Can Count on Me* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *Mansfield Park* (1999), Original Music Composer
- *A Price Above Rubies* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *Los Locos* (1997), Original Music Composer
- *Little Bear* (1995), Music
- *When Night Is Falling* (1995), Original Music Composer
- *The Voice-Over Queen* (1990), Music

## Gallery

- ![Lesley Barber and Don McKellar. Photo: Ernesto Di Stefano / George Pimentel Photography. (2020)](https://film.one/media/person/95473/gallery-cd26806c57b8.jpg) Lesley Barber and Don McKellar. Photo: Ernesto Di Stefano / George Pimentel Photography. (2020) — Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/2020_CFC_Annual_Gala_%26_Auction_%2849565945971%29.jpg/1280px-2020_CFC_Annual_Gala_%26_Auction_%2849565945971%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Teri Hart and Lesley Barber. Photo: Ernesto Di Stefano / George Pimentel Photography. (2020)](https://film.one/media/person/95473/gallery-1e4e8a566157.jpg) Teri Hart and Lesley Barber. Photo: Ernesto Di Stefano / George Pimentel Photography. (2020) — Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/2020_CFC_Annual_Gala_%26_Auction_%2849566175937%29.jpg/1280px-2020_CFC_Annual_Gala_%26_Auction_%2849566175937%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Lesley Barber](https://film.one/media/person/95473/gallery-8062f7e3a959.jpg) Lesley Barber — AustrianSpence, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Lesley_Barber_at_the_Nappily_Ever_After_Premiere.jpg/1280px-Lesley_Barber_at_the_Nappily_Ever_After_Premiere.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Composer Lesley Barber attends the Nappily Ever After premiere in Los Angeles taken on the red carpet. (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/95473/gallery-a3853b4a659a.jpg) Composer Lesley Barber attends the Nappily Ever After premiere in Los Angeles taken on the red carpet. (2018) — AustrianSpence, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Lesley_Barber_at_the_Nappily_Ever_After_Premiere_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Darren Fung and Lesley Barber and a reception for CFC's Slaight Music Residency. On September 30, CFC held an event at TIFF Bell Lightbox to showcase the talent (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/95473/gallery-d1bdaeeca936.jpg) Darren Fung and Lesley Barber and a reception for CFC's Slaight Music Residency. On September 30, CFC held an event at TIFF Bell Lightbox to showcase the talent (2013) — Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Slaight_Music_Residency_Showcase_2013_%2810042097376%29.jpg/1280px-Slaight_Music_Residency_Showcase_2013_%2810042097376%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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