Jeff Russo

Jeff Russo is an Emmy Award-winning and Grammy-nominated composer, scoring varied and compelling music for film, television and video games.

Upcoming projects include FX’s series Alien: Earth; and Paramount+’s Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.

Russo’s film credits include Olatunde Osunsanmi’s Star Trek: Section 31; Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Rob Peace, which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival; Bartlett Sher’s Oslo, which he co-scored with Zoë Keating and for which he received an Emmy nomination; Paul Dektor’s American Dreamer, which premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival; Sabrina Doyle’s Lorelei, which premiered at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival; Noah Hawley’s Lucy in the Sky, which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival; Peter Berg’s action-thriller film, Mile 22; and Jon Avnet’s Three Christs, which premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.

His music can also be heard on shows such as FX’s Fargo, for which Russo received an Emmy in 2017 and four additional nominations; Netflix’s limited series, Zero Day and Ripley; Peacock’s Mrs. Davis; HBO Max’s Love and Death; Amazon Prime’s The Consultant; Showtime Networks’ The Man Who Fell to Earth; CBS All Access’s Star Trek: Discovery, and Clarice; Paramount +’s Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds; Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy; Cursed; and Altered Carbon; FX’s Legion and Snowfall; Starz’s Power Book II: Ghost, produced by Curtis Jackson “50 Cent”; Apple TV+’s For All Mankind; and more.

In addition to composing music for film and television, Russo is a founding member, lead guitarist and co-songwriter of two-time Grammy nominated, multi-platinum selling rock band,Tonic. Their debut album, Lemon Parade, posted three singles in the U.S. Mainstream rock charts' Top 10 with "If You Could Only See" rocketing to number one. In 2003, the band received two Grammy nominations, one for “Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal” for "Take Me As I Am", and one for “Best Rock Album.” Russo also received a BAFTA nomination for Best Music for Annapurna Interactive's video game, What Remains of Edith Finch.

According to Variety Magazine, "Jeff Russo understands how much music can affect an audience. When music is employed, he sees it as an enhancement to character development, and is careful to create music that subtly flows with the action and visuals of the scene."

Russo has composed music for the New York Ballet Company Cedar Lake Ensemble.