Atticus Ross
Atticus Matthew Cowper Ross (born 16 January 1968) is an English musician, record producer, composer, and audio engineer. Along with Trent Reznor, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Social Network in 2010. In 2013, the pair won a Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for their soundtrack to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. In 2021, alongside Jon Batiste, they won the Golden Globe and Academy Award for the soundtrack for Pixar's Soul.
Atticus Ross
Atticus Matthew Cowper Ross
16 January 1968
London, England
- Musician
- composer
- record producer
- audio engineer
- Keyboards
- synthesizer
1992–present
Ross began working with Reznor on the latter's side project Tapeworm in 2002. He later worked with Reznor's band Nine Inch Nails, first as a programmer and producer in 2005, and became the only official member of the band outside of Reznor in 2016.
Ross was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Nine Inch Nails in 2020.
Early life[edit]
Atticus Matthew Cowper Ross was born in the Ladbroke Grove area of London on 16 January 1968,[1] the son of Ian Cowper Ross, a founder of Radio Caroline,[2] and Roxana Rose Catherine Naila, daughter of diplomat Miles Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn.[3] He has five siblings, including fashion model Liberty Ross and fellow musician Leopold Ross.[4] His great-grandfather was Italian pathologist and bacteriologist Aldo Castellani,[4] and his uncle is British-American journalist Charles Glass.[2] Ross was educated at Eton College[2] and later at the Courtauld Institute of Art.[5]
Career[edit]
Music[edit]
Ross came to notice in the mid-1990s as a programmer for Tim Simenon's Bomb the Bass during the period of the albums Unknown Territory and Clear. He worked on a number of production and remix projects with Simenon, as well as forming a collaborative relationship with Barry Adamson. He programmed The Negro Inside Me and Oedipus Schmoedipus, and produced As Above So Below before forming his own band, 12 Rounds, with his wife Claudia Sarne and Adam Holden. They released two albums, Jitterjuice and My Big Hero. A third full-length album was produced by Trent Reznor, but was ultimately never finished. Three songs from that album have since been released on the band's website.[6]
Ross moved to the United States in 2000, and as of 2002 was working alongside Reznor for his side project Tapeworm. He has been credited as a producer and/or programmer on the Nine Inch Nails albums With Teeth, Year Zero, Ghosts I–IV (on which he was a co-writer), The Slip, and Hesitation Marks. He has worked with Reznor in numerous other capacities, including work with Saul Williams and Zack de la Rocha, and they co-produced tracks for a reformed Jane's Addiction with Alan Moulder in 2009.
Personal life[edit]
Ross is married to singer Claudia Sarne and the couple live in Los Angeles with their three children.