---
name: "Paul Westerberg"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/paul-westerberg"
fi1m_id: "paul-westerberg"
imdb_id: "nm0922581"
tmdb_id: 68110
wikidata_id: "Q1386311"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "31 December 1959"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T04:05:32.765139+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."
---

# Paul Westerberg

## Identity

Paul Westerberg

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/paul-westerberg
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** paul-westerberg
- **IMDb ID:** nm0922581
- **TMDB ID:** 68110
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1386311
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Westerberg, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1386311, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0922581/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/68110

Composer. Born 31 December 1959 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 31 December 1959, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- **Also known as:** Paul Harold Westerberg
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Westerberg, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1386311, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0922581/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/68110

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Singles*](https://film.one/film/singles.md) (74)

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## Biography

Paul Westerberg is an American musician, songwriter and composer. Born Paul Harold Westerberg on 31 December 1959 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he is best known as the lead singer, guitarist and principal songwriter of the alternative rock band The Replacements.

After the band's breakup he pursued a solo career, releasing albums including *14 Songs* (1993). Westerberg composed the score and contributed songs to the soundtrack of the 1992 film *Singles*. He has additional credits as a composer on films such as *Open Season* (2006) and has made occasional acting appearances, primarily in music videos and one episode of the television series *The Larry Sanders Show* (1997).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Singles* (1992), Fi1m 74, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/singles.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

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

- *Can't Hardly Wait* (2020), Lyricist, Music
- *Boog and Elliot's Midnight Bun Run* (2006), Original Music Composer
- *Open Season* (2006), as Songs · Original Music Composer
- *Paul Westerberg: Come Feel Me Tremble* (2003), Director
- *Seeing Through Paul* (1999), Producer
- *Singles* (1992), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/singles.md)
- *The Replacements: Incident on 7th Street* (1981), as Performer

## Gallery

- ![Paul Westerberg](https://film.one/media/person/3504799/gallery-0fe5295b39ae.jpg) Paul Westerberg — Constantino14, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/PaulWesteberg2014_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Paul Westerberg playing with The Replacements at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, NY in 2014.](https://film.one/media/person/3504799/gallery-93e08f6f11b9.jpg) Paul Westerberg playing with The Replacements at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, NY in 2014. — Constantino14, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/PaulWesteberg2014.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Star representing musician Paul Westerberg on the outside mural of the Minneapolis nightclub First Avenue](https://film.one/media/person/3504799/gallery-adae9da4011c.jpg) Star representing musician Paul Westerberg on the outside mural of the Minneapolis nightclub First Avenue — Christopher Bahn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Paul_Westerberg_-_First_Avenue_Star.jpg/1280px-Paul_Westerberg_-_First_Avenue_Star.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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