Personal Info
Birth date
1978-03-11 (47 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Sound
Place of birth
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Also known as
-Rob Simonsen
Biography
Rob Simonsen (born March 11, 1978) is an American composer and conductor. He is best known for his scores in films such as 500 Days of Summer (2009), The Age of Adaline (2015), Gifted (2017), The Only Living Boy in New York (2017), Tully (2018), Love, Simon (2018), The Front Runner (2018), The Way Back (2020), Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), The Adam Project (2022), The Whale (2022), Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), and It Ends with Us (2024), and the television series Life in Pieces (2015–2019). He also collaborates with the directors Marc Webb, Jason Reitman and Shawn Levy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rob Simonsen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Elio
6.817
Overview:
Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination, finds himself on a cosmic misadventure where he must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions and somehow discover who he is truly meant to be.
Deadpool & Wolverine
7.6
Overview:
A listless Wade Wilson toils away in civilian life with his days as the morally flexible mercenary, Deadpool, behind him. But when his homeworld faces an existential threat, Wade must reluctantly suit-up again with an even more reluctant Wolverine.
(500) Days of Summer
7.3
Overview:
Tom, greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer, suddenly dumps him. He reflects on their 500 days together to try to figure out where their love affair went sour, and in doing so, Tom rediscovers his true passions in life.
It Ends with Us
7.014
Overview:
When a woman's first love suddenly reenters her life, her relationship with a charming, but abusive neurosurgeon is upended, and she realizes she must learn to rely on her own strength to make an impossible choice for her future.
Gifted
8.006
Overview:
Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.
Mistresses
5.3
Overview:
Meet Savi, a successful career woman working toward the next phase in her life—both professional and personal—simultaneously bucking for partner at her law firm while she and her husband, Harry, try to start a family of their own. Savi's free-spirited and capricious baby sister, Josselyn, couldn't be more different—living single, serial dating and partying, and regularly leaning on her big sister along the way. Their common best friend, April, a recent widow and mother of two, is rebuilding her life after tragedy and learning to move forward, with the support and guidance of her closest girlfriends. And friend Karen, a successful therapist with her own practice, reconnects with the girls after her involvement in a complicated relationship with a patient goes far too deep.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
7.344
Overview:
When single mom Callie and her two kids Trevor and Phoebe arrive in a small Oklahoma town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.
The Age of Adaline
7.481
Overview:
After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.
Moneyball
7.279
Overview:
The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.
The Whale
7.811
Overview:
A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
The Adam Project
7.019
Overview:
After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future.
The Upside
7.142
Overview:
Phillip is a wealthy quadriplegic who needs a caretaker to help him with his day-to-day routine in his New York penthouse. He decides to hire Dell, a struggling parolee who's trying to reconnect with his ex and his young son. Despite coming from two different worlds, an unlikely friendship starts to blossom.
Going in Style
6.701
Overview:
Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, three lifelong pals risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
Nerve
7.015
Overview:
Industrious high school senior Vee Delmonico has had it with living life on the sidelines. When pressured by friends to join the popular online game Nerve, Vee decides to sign up for just one dare in what seems like harmless fun. But as she finds herself caught up in the thrill of the adrenaline-fueled competition partnered with a mysterious stranger, the game begins to take a sinister turn with increasingly dangerous acts, leading her into a high stakes finale that will determine her entire future.
Love, Simon
7.994
Overview:
Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online.
Viral
5.639
Overview:
Following the outbreak of a virus that wipes out the majority of the human population, a young woman documents her family's new life in quarantine and tries to protect her infected sister.
The Spectacular Now
6.667
Overview:
Sutter, a popular party animal, unexpectedly meets the introverted Aimee after waking up on a stranger's lawn. As Sutter deals with the problems in his life and Aimee plans for her future beyond school, an unexpected romance blossoms between them.
Caught Stealing
NYR
Overview:
Hank Thompson, a burned-out former baseball player, is unwittingly plunged into a wild fight for survival in the downtown criminal underworld of '90s New York City.
Burnt
6.516
Overview:
Adam Jones is a Chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars.
Foxcatcher
6.655
Overview:
The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul - a union that leads to unlikely circumstances.
Tully
6.765
Overview:
Marlo, a mother of three, including a newborn, is gifted a night nanny by her brother. Hesitant at first, she quickly forms a bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging nanny named Tully.
Two Is a Family
7.738
Overview:
A man without attachments or responsibilities suddenly finds himself with an abandoned baby and leaves for London to try and find the mother. Eight years later after he and his daughter become inseparable Gloria's mother reappears.
The Way Way Back
7.1
Overview:
Shy 14-year-old Duncan goes on summer vacation with his mother, her overbearing boyfriend, and her boyfriend's daughter. Having a rough time fitting in, Duncan finds an unexpected friend in Owen, manager of the Water Wizz water park.
LOL
6.117
Overview:
In a world connected by YouTube, iTunes, and Facebook, Lola and her friends navigate the peer pressures of high school romance and friendship while dodging their sometimes overbearing and confused parents. When Lola's mom, Anne, "accidentally" reads her teenage daughter's racy journal, she realizes just how wide their communication gap has grown.
Captive State
5.6
Overview:
Nearly a decade after occupation by an extraterrestrial force, the lives of a Chicago neighborhood on both sides of the conflict are explored. In a working-class Chicago neighborhood occupied by an alien force for nine years, increased surveillance and the restriction of civil rights have given rise to an authoritarian system -- and dissent among the populace.
The Way Back
6.658
Overview:
A former basketball all-star, who has lost his wife and family foundation in a struggle with addiction, attempts to regain his soul and salvation by becoming the coach of a disparate ethnically mixed high school basketball team at his alma mater.
The Front Runner
5.893
Overview:
Gary Hart, former Senator of Colorado, becomes the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1987. Hart's intelligence, charisma and idealism makes him popular with young voters, leaving him with a seemingly clear path to the White House. All that comes crashing down when allegations of an extramarital affair surface in the media, forcing the candidate to address a scandal that threatens to derail his campaign and personal life.
All Good Things
6.1
Overview:
Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history.
The English Teacher
5.59
Overview:
Small-town Pennsylvania schoolteacher Linda Sinclair balances her staid home life with an incredible passion for her subject. Then a former star pupil reenters her life after failing as a playwright in New York City. Seeing in his script the inspiration that she has always longed to instill in her students, this dyed-in-the-wool romantic enlists the help of long-suffering drama teacher Carl to mount the work as the high school’s next and riskiest production.
Acting
2024Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine as Self - Composer
2004Westender as Glim
Sound
2025Caught Stealing ... Original Music Composer
2025Elio ... Original Music Composer
2024It Ends with Us ... Original Music Composer
2024Deadpool & Wolverine ... Original Music Composer
2024Leading Man ... Music
2023Good Grief ... Original Music Composer
2022The Whale ... Original Music Composer
2022Hollywood Stargirl ... Original Music Composer
2022The Adam Project ... Original Music Composer
2021Ghostbusters: Afterlife ... Original Music Composer
2020Stargirl ... Original Music Composer
2020The Way Back ... Original Music Composer
2019Our Friend ... Original Music Composer
2019The House of Tomorrow ... Original Music Composer
2019In the Time It Takes to Get There ... Music
2019Fast Color ... Original Music Composer
2019Captive State ... Original Music Composer
2019Poem About All Different Things ... Music
2019The Upside ... Original Music Composer
2018The Front Runner ... Original Music Composer
2018Tully ... Original Music Composer
2018Love, Simon ... Original Music Composer
2017Father Figures ... Original Music Composer
2017The Only Living Boy in New York ... Original Music Composer
2017Gifted ... Original Music Composer
2017Going in Style ... Original Music Composer
2016Two Is a Family ... Original Music Composer
2016Miss Stevens ... Original Music Composer
2016Nerve ... Original Music Composer
2016Viral ... Original Music Composer
2015Burnt ... Original Music Composer
2015Stonewall ... Original Music Composer
2015The Age of Adaline ... Original Music Composer
2014Foxcatcher ... Original Music Composer
2014Wish I Was Here ... Original Music Composer
2014Chu and Blossom ... Original Music Composer
2013The Spectacular Now ... Original Music Composer
2013The Way Way Back ... Original Music Composer
2013Mistresses (1 Episode) ... Original Music Composer
2013The English Teacher ... Original Music Composer
2012Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best ... Music
2012Girl Most Likely ... Original Music Composer
2012Seeking a Friend for the End of the World ... Original Music Composer
2012LOL ... Original Music Composer
2011Moneyball ... Additional Soundtrack
2011Love Etc. ... Original Music Composer
2010All Good Things ... Original Music Composer
2009(500) Days of Summer ... Original Music Composer
2009Management ... Original Music Composer
20088 ... Original Music Composer
2008How Can It Be ... Music