Personal info
Known for
Music Director
Gender
Male
Birthday
18 May
Location
Ohio, United States
Edit pageMark Mothersbaugh
Biography
In a career spanning more than 40 years, Mark Allen Mothersbaugh, a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, visual artist, and author has contributed immensely to the American TV and film industries. The co-founder, lead singer, and keyboardist of the band Devo, which was active in the late 1970s and '80s, Mothersbaugh was born in Ohio.
He has contributed to the soundtracks of several TV shows such as Frosty Returns (1992), Strange Luck (1995), Working (1997), Hidden Hills (2002), Skate 3 (2010), and Shameless (2011). In 2008, he was awarded the honorary doctorate of humane letters from Kent State University.
Mothersbaugh's movie credits include The Last Supper (1996), Rushmore (1998), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004), 21 Jump Street (2012), The LEGO Movie (2014), and Hotel Transylvania 2 (2016). In 2017, he worked on the soundtrack of The Lego Ninjago Movie and Thor: Ragnarok.