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Nickname:	Tommy
Known for:	The Shawshank Redemption, American Beauty, Finding Nemo
Birth name:	Thomas Montgomery Newman
Birthday:	20 October 1955, Los Angeles, California, USA
Height:	5' 10" (1.78 m)

Son of composer Alfred Newman; nephew of Lionel Newman and Emil Newman; cousin of Randy Newman; brother of composer David Newman, Maria Newman; cousin of composer Joey Newman. Graduated from Yale University with a masters in music composition Keyboard player for "The Innocents" rock band 3 children - Evan, Julia & Jack During the 2000 Summer Olympics, parts of his scores to Erin Brockovich, The Shawshank Redemption, and How to Make an American Quilt (and possibly others) were played on NBC during short biographies of certain athletes. As with the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, pieces from Newman's scores were used amidst biographies of Olympians such as Leann Parsley during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. Part of his score to The War was used in the trailers to both American Beauty and Life as a House. Prior to scoring Reckless, Newman wrote music for off-Broadway productions, theater, and bands "The Innocents" and "Tokyo 77". Lives in the house in which he grew up (designed by Lloyd Wright, the son of Frank Lloyd Wright), and writes in the same home studio used by his father Alfred Newman. Part of his score to "Unstrung Heroes" (1995) was used in the trailer for "Adaptation" (2002). Parts of his scores to both "American Beauty" (1999) and "Pay It Forward" (2000) were used in the trailer for "About Schmidt" (2002). Parts of his score to The Shawshank Redemption (1994) were used in the trailer for Brokeback Mountain (2005) and All the King's Men (2005). During Tina Turner's video biography at the 2005 Kennedy Center Honors, part of Oprah Winfrey's narration was accompanied by a portion of Newman's score to "Road to Perdition" (2002). Part of his score to "Jarhead" (2005) was used in the trailer for "The Last King of Scotland" (2006).

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