Carly Paradis is an award-winning and BAFTA and Ivor Novello nominated film and TV composer, songwriter and pianist, whose credits include the hit BBC series Line of Duty, Sky’s The Rising for which she won an RTS and Music+Sound Award, and Netflix original supernatural drama The Innocents which she won a Hollywood Music in Media Award for best song. She was RTS nominated for her score for ITV’s The Pembrokeshire Murders, scored series 1 & 2 of Sick Note starring Rupert Grint, Nick Frost and Don Johnson, PBS Masterpiece/ITV’s Prime Suspect prequel Prime Suspect:1973, and the first female-driven horror anthology XX which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2017.

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Recent work includes the original score for Carol Morley’s Typist Artist Pirate King which had its UK premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival in 2023 and received an Ivor Novello nomination for Best Original Film Score. She also scored Jed Mercurio’s BBC adaptation of Lady Chatterley’s Lover starring Richard Madden and her music has been used for trailers including True Detective, Homeland and Martin Scorsese’s Hugo. Upcoming projects include ITV’s crime thriller Until I Kill You starring Anna Maxwell-Martin, Marlon James’ Get Millie Black for Channel 4/HBO and the second series of the BBC’s Showtrial.

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Carly joined Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds for their European tour playing keyboards. She has also toured worldwide with Clint Mansell for Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan and The Wrestler and played piano on his soundtrack to the BAFTA winning Moon, directed by Duncan Jones. She performed at the 2019 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the sci-fi soundtrack special, with the London Contemporary Orchestra. She releases her own music including the albums Hearts To Symphony and Nothing is Something. Carly lives in London and is single-handedly responsible for a global avocado shortage.

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