Biography

Dara Taylor has emerged as a fresh voice in the world of scoring music to picture, as evidenced by her score for Marvel Studios' Ironheart and Amazon Studios' The Tender Bar, directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker George Clooney.

She recently scored the Taraji P. Henson drama Straw; Netflix's Meet Me Next Christmas, for which she received a 2025 SCL Award nomination and a 2025 BMI Award; Netflix and Shondaland's Black Barbie; Universal Pictures' comedy Strays starring Will Ferrell and Jamie Foxx; Sony Pictures/Screen Gems' The Invitation, for which she received a 2023 SCL Award nomination; and Netflix's The Noel Diary, directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Charles Shyer.

Her other credits include the Amazon series The Boys: Diabolical; the Lionsgate comedy Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar starring Kristen Wiig and Jamie Dornan, which she co-scored with Christopher Lennertz; the Warner Bros. animated feature Scoob! Holiday Haunt; Dawn Porter documentaries 37 Words and Power of the Dream; the action crime drama Echo Boomers starring Michael Shannon; the Netflix series Bookmarks; the Universal/1440 animated feature Curious George: Cape Ahoy; the Netflix docu-series Trial by Media; the FX series Pride; and the Karen Allen-starred drama Colewell, for which she won a 2019 Hollywood Music in Media Award.

Dara is a proud Governor of the Recording Academy's Los Angeles Chapter, a member of the Society of Composers & Lyricists' Early Career Committee, and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Television Academy, the Composers Diversity Collective, and the Alliance of Women Film Composers.
- IMDb mini biography by: Dara Taylor