Ruth Barrett

Ruth Barrett (born 1976) is a British film score composer. Her film score credits include Harry Brown,Twenty8k, and City of Tiny Lights. Her television score credits include The Sister, Bloodlands, Bodyguard,The Durrells,Collateral, Legacy, Law & Order: Organized Crime, and Victoria. For her work on Victoria, Barrett was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series.

Barrett was born in Roehampton, London in 1976. She became interested in film and television music at a very young age while watching 1980s reruns of 1970s American television shows. She cites 1978s The Incredible Hulk, Queen's 1980 Flash Gordon Soundtrack, and a number of commercials broadcast throughout the 1980s as childhood inspirations that piqued her interest in music.

In her early teens she began improvising compositions around classical pieces with piano teacher and early mentor Nigel Crouch.