Background
Jacob Groth was born in Copenhagen.
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Jacob Groth
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He is most known for scoring the film trilogy based on Stig Larson"s Millennium series and a number of award-winning Danish as well as the Columbia Broadcasting System series Unforgettable. Among his most known works are Would Anybody Die (Foreign Maine) from The Girl Who Played With Fire and the opening song Forgiveness from the DR series The Eagle, both of which have lyrics and vocals by his spouse, Misen Groth. He began his career in music as a rock musician, playing in various bands in the 1950s and 1970s.
He also worked on Søren Kragh-Jacobsen"s feature film debut Vil du se minimum smukke Navle? (1978) and had his professional debut as a film composer on Henning Kristiansen"s drama Charly & Steffen (1979).
Since the early 1980s, Groth also collaborated with Rumle Hammerich on several films, including Otto is a Rhino (1983), Fasadklättraren (1991), Deadly Desire (1992) and eadhunters (2009). Groth also composed the music for the theme song for the Emmu-winning DRThe Eagle and Toung Andersen.
Since the television series taxa Groth also works regularly with the film and television director Niels Arden Oplev. Groth"s score for Oplev"s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was performed by Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen during the "préludes musicaux" in Cannes.
Groth is married to the singer/songwriter Misen Groth.
They live in Copenhagen. He also owns an apartment and recording studio in Hollywood Hills, Los Los Angeles
Achievements
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Groth"s score for Kragh-Jacobseb"s television series Guldregn won him his first Danish Film Academy Award for Best Film Score in 1090. In 2009, he received is second Danish Film Academy Award for his work on Oplev"s Worlds Apart, Denmark"s official entry for the nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards. lieutenant won him a nomination for Best Composer at the European Film Awards.
