Biography

Woody Jackson is an Award winning composer for the Video Games Red Dead Redemption I & II, La Noire and Grand Theft Auto V. He also has been a Los Angeles session musician for the last 20 years collaborating and performing on movies such as Ocean's 12/13, The Devil Wears Prada and co-composing the television series Nashville with T-bone Burnett and Keefus Ciancia including working on all three seasons of the show Killing Eve. Woody Jackson owns the recording studio Electro-Vox which has recorded Multi-Platinum and Grammy winning records for artists Adele, Vampire Weekend,Lady Gaga,Artic Monkeys and Kanye West.

Jackson began working with Rockstar Games in 2008, to compose the music of Red Dead Redemption. He returned to compose the score for the downloadable content campaign Undead Nightmare in 2010, and Jackson provided the in-game music for L.A. Noire in 2011which won a BAFTA for the score. For the music of Grand Theft Auto V, he was the lead composer with The Alchemist, Oh No, and Tangerine Dream. Jackson continued working with Rockstar for the music of Red Dead Redemption 2, composing 40+ hours of music over five years. His work on Rockstar's games has been praised, and he has received awards from the Game Audio Network, Guild Awards, Game Developers Choice Awards, BAFTA, Spike Video Game Awards, and The Game Awards.
- IMDb mini biography by: Woody Jackson