---
name: "Nate Heller"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/nate-heller"
fi1m_id: "nate-heller"
imdb_id: "nm7102529"
tmdb_id: 1534673
wikidata_id: "Q61408845"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "19 September 1982"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-24T19:30:19.813416+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."
---

# Nate Heller

## Identity

Nate Heller

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nate-heller
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** nate-heller
- **IMDb ID:** nm7102529
- **TMDB ID:** 1534673
- **Wikidata ID:** Q61408845
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61408845, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7102529/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1534673

Composer. Born 19 September 1982 in Alameda County, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 19 September 1982, Alameda County, California, USA
- **Active:** 2018–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 acting, 2 crew
- **Frequently works with:** [Marielle Heller](https://film.one/person/marielle-heller.md), [Anne Carey](https://film.one/person/anne-carey.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 80 (2), 2020s 56 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61408845, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7102529/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1534673

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood*](https://film.one/film/a-beautiful-day-in-the-neighborhood.md) (77)
- **Disney+:** [*Nightbitch*](https://film.one/film/nightbitch.md) (56)

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

## Biography

Nate Heller is an American composer and actor. Born on 19 September 1982 in Alameda County, California, he began his career touring with the band Wendy Darling before moving into film scoring.

Heller has composed the scores for all four feature films directed by his sister Marielle Heller: *The Diary of a Teenage Girl* (2015), *Can You Ever Forgive Me?* (2018), *A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood* (2019) and *Nightbitch* (2024). He also appeared as the Book Babies Leader in the latter. His work on *A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood* earned a Grammy nomination and a BMI Award.

*Sources: imdb.com, screenrant.com, filmmusicreporter.com, npoklassiek.nl.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Performed in (1)

- *Nightbitch* (2024), Fi1m 56, as Book Babies Leader — [page](https://film.one/film/nightbitch.md)

### Crew (2) — the average rests on these

- *A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood* (2019), Fi1m 77, as Wedding Band Lead Guitarist (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/a-beautiful-day-in-the-neighborhood.md)
- *Can You Ever Forgive Me?* (2018), Fi1m 84, Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/can-you-ever-forgive-me.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

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

- *Sylvia* (2026), Sound, Sound Designer
- *Nightbitch* (2024), as Book Babies Leader · Original Music Composer — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/nightbitch.md)
- *Turn Me On* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *Deep Tish* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *Open and Shut* (2023), Original Music Composer
- *Sophie Jones* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood* (2019), as Wedding Band Lead Guitarist (uncredited) · Original Music Composer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/a-beautiful-day-in-the-neighborhood.md)
- *Can You Ever Forgive Me?* (2018), Original Music Composer, Orchestrator — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/can-you-ever-forgive-me.md)
- *The Diary of a Teenage Girl* (2015), as Band Member · Original Music Composer

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