Cliff Martinez

Composer

Born: February 5, 1954 (72 years old)

Place of birth: The Bronx, New York, USA

Biography

Cliff Martinez (born February 5, 1954) is an American musician and composer. Early in his career, Martinez was known as a drummer notably with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Captain Beefheart. Since the 1990s, he has worked primarily as a film score composer, writing music for Spring Breakers, The Foreigner, and multiple films by Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Solaris, Contagion, and Traffic) and Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon and the miniseries Too Old to Die Young).

Filmography (51)

• Red Hot Chili Peppers - What Hits!? (1992, ★ 7.9)
• The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel (2026, ★ 7.3)
• sex, lies, and videotape (1989, ★ 6.9)
• Traffic (2000, ★ 7.1)
• Wicker Park (2004, ★ 6.8)
• Narc (2002, ★ 6.8)
• Pump Up the Volume (1990, ★ 7)
• The Lincoln Lawyer (2011, ★ 7.2)
• Drive (2011, ★ 7.6)
• The Fifth Element (1997, ★ 7.6)
• The Normal Heart (2014, ★ 7.7)
• The Square (2013, ★ 7.6)
• The Knick (2014, ★ 7.9)
• The Wilds (2020, ★ 7.6)
• Kafka (1991, ★ 6.5)
• The Limey (1999, ★ 6.5)
• Gray's Anatomy (1996, ★ 6.5)
• Contagion (2011, ★ 6.6)
• Kimi (2022, ★ 6.2)
• In the Beginning (2009, ★ 6.6)
• The Neon Demon (2016, ★ 6.5)
• Copenhagen Cowboy: Nightcall with Nicolas Winding Refn (2023, ★ 7.4)
• My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn (2015, ★ 6.4)
• Touch of Crude (2022, ★ 6.4)
• Game Night (2018, ★ 6.8)
• NWR (2012, ★ 7.2)
• Schizopolis (1997, ★ 6.2)
• Mea Culpa (2014, ★ 6.4)
• King of the Hill (1993, ★ 6.8)
• The Foreigner (2017, ★ 7)