Reinhold Heil

Reinhold Heil is a film and television composer based in Los Angeles. Born in Schlüchtern, West Germany, he first came to prominence as the keyboarder of the legendary German punk band the Nina Hagen Band. He is a former member of Spliff, one of Germany's most successful rock bands of the 1980s. His film and television credits include Run Lola Run, One Hour Photo, The International, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, HBO’s Deadwood, CBS’s Without a Trace, NBC’s Awake, and the epic adventure-drama Cloud Atlas, directed by Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachowski, and Tom Tykwer. His partners in film scoring have been Johnny Klimek and sometimes German film director Tom Tykwer. He continues to collaborate with Johnny Klimek on selected projects while working primarily as an individual composer. He is represented by First Artists Management