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name: "Nathaniel Méchaly"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/nathaniel-mechaly"
fi1m_id: "nathaniel-mechaly"
imdb_id: "nm1166319"
tmdb_id: 55773
wikidata_id: "Q1479812"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "12 December 1972"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T12:35:14.331328+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."
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# Nathaniel Méchaly

## Identity

Nathaniel Méchaly

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nathaniel-mechaly
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** nathaniel-mechaly
- **IMDb ID:** nm1166319
- **TMDB ID:** 55773
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1479812
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_M%C3%A9chaly, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1479812, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1166319/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55773

Composer. Born 12 December 1972 in France.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 12 December 1972, France
- **Active:** 2008–2012
- **Also known as:** Nathaniel Mechaly
- **Frequently works with:** [Famke Janssen](https://film.one/person/famke-janssen.md), [Liam Neeson](https://film.one/person/liam-neeson.md), [Luc Besson](https://film.one/person/luc-besson.md), [Maggie Grace](https://film.one/person/maggie-grace.md), [Robert Mark Kamen](https://film.one/person/robert-mark-kamen.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_M%C3%A9chaly, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1479812, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1166319/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/55773

## Biography

Nathaniel Méchaly is a French composer. He studied the cello, chamber music and electroacoustic composition at the Conservatoire National de Région de Musique de Marseille and other national academies of music.

Méchaly's first feature score was for Raphaël Nadjari's *Avanim* (2004). He is credited on *Revolver* (2005), the *Taken* trilogy (2008–2014), *Colombiana* (2011) and *The Grandmaster* (2013). With Shigeru Umebayashi he won Best Original Film Score at the 33rd Hong Kong Film Awards and Best Composer at the 8th Asian Film Awards for *The Grandmaster*. He has also composed for television and contemporary dance.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Taken* (2008), Fi1m 66, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/taken.md)

## Complete filmography (41)

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

- *Other* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *Chaplin: Spirit of the Tramp* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *Fox Hunt* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *MadS* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *Magnificat* (2023), Music
- *Let Her Kill You* (2023), Music
- *Syndrome [E]* (2022), series, Music
- *Shadowplay* (2020), series, Music
- *Swoon* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *The Age of the Stateless* (2018), Music
- *Stratton* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *See You Tomorrow* (2016), Music
- *Shut In* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *Taken 3* (2014), Original Music Composer
- *Get Well Soon* (2014), Original Music Composer
- *Taxi Brooklyn* (2014), series, Music
- *The Jewish Cardinal* (2013), Music
- *The Grandmaster* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *Transporter: The Series* (2013), series, Original Music Composer
- *Taken 2* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *Sunday Dads* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *Colombiana* (2011), Original Music Composer
- *Final Balance* (2011), Original Music Composer
- *Joseph et la fille* (2010), Original Music Composer
- *La Tueuse* (2010), Original Music Composer
- *The Assassin Next Door* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *Eyes Wide Open* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *Dorothy Mills* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *Taken* (2008), Original Music Composer, Music Arranger, Music Producer, Orchestrator — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/taken.md)
- *Room of Death* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *Masked Mobsters* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *Déjà vu* (2007), Music
- *The Secret* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *Without Me* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *Tehilim* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *Black Box* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *Revolver* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *Stones* (2004), Original Music Composer
- *Lisa* (2001), Sound Designer
- *A bras le coeur*, Original Music Composer
- *Borough Park*, Music

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