Isobel Waller-Bridge

Born Isobel Noeline Waller-Bridge on 23 April 1984,^{[citation needed]} she is the daughter of Theresa Mary Waller-Bridge (née Clerke), an employee of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers, and Michael Cyprian Waller-Bridge, founder of the electronic trading platform Tradepoint.^[3][4][5] She has two younger siblings: Jasper and Phoebe.^{[citation needed]} The family from which Waller-Bridge descends were landed gentry of Cuckfield, Sussex.^[6][7] On her father's side, she is a descendant of the Revd Sir Egerton Leigh, 2nd Baronet, and a distant relative of politician and author Egerton Leigh; her maternal grandfather was Sir John Edward Longueville Clerke, 12th baronet, of Hitcham, Buckinghamshire.^{[8][verification needed]}

Waller-Bridge earned an bachelor's degree in music from Edinburgh University, and a master's degree from King's College London.^{[citation needed]} She was also awarded a scholarship from the Royal Academy of Music, where she received another diploma.^{[citation needed][9][better source needed]}

Waller-Bridge composed the soundtrack for the BBC comedy-drama series Fleabag (2016–2019), which was written by and starred her sister, Phoebe Waller-Bridge.^[10] She also wrote the score for the feature films Vita and Virginia (2018) and Emma (2020).^[11][12] In 2021, she scored Netflix's Munich: The Edge of War,^[13] which was released by Milan Records/Sony Music, and The Phantom of the Open.^[14]

Waller-Bridge is also a performer, playing in venues such as the St James Theatre and Union Chapel. In 2016, her music appeared on albums with the Icelandic composers Ólafur Arnalds and Jóhann Jóhannsson.^[9] In 2021, she was commissioned by the Philharmonia Orchestra to write music for their Human/Nature series. Her piece, Temperatures, was premiered in November 2021, conducted by Pekka Kuusisto at the Royal Festival Hall.^[15] In 2020, she was commissioned by Sarah Burton to score Alexander McQueen’s Spring/Summer 2020 collection at Paris Fashion Week.^[16] In 2021, she collaborated with ballet dancer and actress Francesca Hayward to score her dance film, Siren.^[17]

For theatre, Waller-Bridge worked on Florian Zeller's The Son (West End)^[18] and The Forest (Hampstead Theatre),^[19] Woyzeck, adapted by Jack Thorne (Old Vic),^[20] Blood Wedding (Young Vic),^[21] and Knives in Hens (Donmar Warehouse).^[22]

In June 2022, it was announced that Waller-Bridge would be providing an original score for an animated short film of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, which aired on BBC One at Christmas 2022.^[23] She produced the soundtrack to Sweetpea in 2024 ^[24]

Michelle Dockery is Waller-Bridge's sister-in-law. ^[25]