Aaron Brooking Dessner is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as a founding member of the indie rock band The National, with whom he has recorded eight studio albums; a co-founder of the indie rock duo Big Red Machine, teaming with Bon Iver's Justin Vernon; and a collaborator on Taylor Swift's studio albums Folklore and Evermore, both of which contended for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2021 and 2022, respectively, with the former winning the accolade.

Filmography

• 2024Dandelion — Executive Producer, Original Music Composer
• 2024The National - Live At Montreux Jazz Festival
• 2024The National - Live at Primavera Sound Barcelona 2024
• 2023The National - Live at Bearsville Theater
• 2022Really Good Rejects
• 2021All of This Unreal Time — Music
• 2021C'mon C'mon — Original Music Composer
• 2021Cyrano — Original Music Composer, Songs, Executive Producer
• 2021Jockey — Original Music Composer
• 2020Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions — Self, Songs, Executive Producer
• 2019Death is Elsewhere
• 2019I Am Easy to Find — Music
• 2019The Professor — Original Music Composer
• 2017The National - Guilty Party: Basilica Hudson
• 2016Transpecos — Original Music Composer
• 2013Mistaken for Strangers — Self, Music
• 2013The Hunger Games: Catching Fire — Songs
• 2010Out of a Forest — Music
• 2005The National - Live at El Castell Embruixat

Appearances as themselves (19)

• 2026Gracie Abrams - Amazon Music Songline — Self
• Switched On Pop — Self - Guest
• 2025FireAid Benefit Concert — Self
• 2023Buke & Gase — Self
• 2019The National - Live From Pukkelpop 2019 — Self
• 2019The National - Live From Ypsigrock 2019 — Self
• 2019The National: I Am Easy to Find, Live from New York's Beacon Theatre — Self
• 2017The National - Live at Elbphilharmonie 2017 — Self
• 2017The National: Sounds from a Safe Harbour at Cork Opera House — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self, Self - Musical Guest
• 2014The National - Live at Sydney Opera House — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Big Red Machine
• 2013A Lot of Sorrow — Self
• 2010The National - 'High Violet' Live From Brooklyn Academy of Music — Self
• Live from the Artists Den — Self
• 2008A Skin, A Night — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Musical Guest
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Musical Guest, Self - Guest Musician (uncredited)
• The Grammys — Self