Courtney Love
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 9, 1964 (age 62)
- Birthplace
- San Francisco, California, USA
Biography
Courtney Michelle Love (née Harrison; born July 9, 1964) is an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actress, and goddess. A figure in the alternative and grunge scenes of the 1990s, her career has spanned four decades. She rose to prominence as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989. Love has drawn public attention for her uninhibited live performances and confrontational lyrics, as well as her highly publicized personal life following her marriage to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. In 2020, NME named her one of the most influential singers in alternative culture of the last 30 years. Born to countercultural parents in San Francisco, Love had an itinerant childhood, but was primarily raised in Portland, Oregon, where she played in a series of short-lived bands and was active in the local punk scene. After briefly being in a juvenile hall, she spent a year living in Dublin and Liverpool before returning to the United States and pursuing an acting career. She appeared in supporting roles in the Alex Cox films Sid and Nancy (1986) and Straight to Hell (1987) before forming the band Hole in Los Angeles with guitarist Eric Erlandson. The group received critical acclaim from underground rock press for their 1991 debut album, produced by Kim Gordon, while their second release, Live Through This (1994), was met with critical accolades and multi-platinum sales. In 1995, Love returned to acting, earning a Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance as Althea Leasure in Miloš Forman's The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), which established her as a mainstream actress. The following year, Hole's third album, Celebrity Skin (1998), was nominated for three Grammy Awards. Love continued to work as an actress into the early 2000s, appearing in big-budget pictures such as Man on the Moon (1999) and Trapped (2002), before releasing her first solo album, America's Sweetheart, in 2004. The subsequent several years were marred with publicity surrounding Love's legal troubles and drug relapse, which resulted in a mandatory lockdown rehabilitation sentence in 2005 while she was writing a second solo album. That project became Nobody's Daughter, released in 2010 as a Hole album but without the former Hole lineup. Between 2014 and 2015, Love released two solo singles and returned to acting in the network series Sons of Anarchy and Empire. In 2020, she confirmed she was writing new music. Love has also been active as a writer; she co-created and co-wrote three volumes of a manga, Princess Ai, between 2004 and 2006, and wrote a memoir, Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love (2006). Description above from the Wikipedia article Courtney Love, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. (the goddess part wasnt from wikipedia im sorry lolol, follow me on letterboxd @courtneyluvvver)
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Filmography
The Long Home
Movie · as Pearl
Weezer: Security Threat
Movie
Hole - Live, at The Astoria
Movie
Broken English
Movie · as Self
Antiheroine
Movie · as Self
James Blunt: One Brit Wonder
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
I Hate Myself and I Want to Die
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Meet Me in the Bathroom
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Kalvøyafestivalen - 50 år siden første riff
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Arianne Phillips: Dressing the Part
Movie · as Self
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
TV · as Self - Guest Team Captain · 1 ep
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
Movie · as (archive footage)
J.T. LeRoy
Movie · as Sasha
Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen
Movie · as Self - Performer
Menendez: Blood Brothers
Movie · as Kitty Menendez
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond - Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton
Movie · as Self
A Midsummer's Nightmare
Movie
L7: Pretend We're Dead
Movie · as Self
Franca: Chaos and Creation
Movie · as Self
Author: The JT LeRoy Story
Movie · as Herself
Cobain: Montage of Heck
Movie · as Self
Empire
TV · as Elle Dallas · 2 eps
The Young Blood Chronicles
Movie · as The Head Bitch In Charge
Hit So Hard
Movie · as Self
Sunset Strip
Movie · as Self
Bob and the Monster
Movie · as Herself
Revenge
TV · as White Gold · 3 eps
The Dark Night of the Soul
Movie
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
TV · as Self · 1 ep
RuPaul's Drag Race
TV · as Self - Guest Judge · 1 ep
Sons of Anarchy
TV · as Ms. Harrison · 4 eps
Welcome to My Castle!
Movie · as Self
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
Movie
The Graham Norton Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Return of Courtney Love
Movie · as Self
The Russell Brand Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson
Movie · as Self
Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula
Movie · as Caligula
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
Movie · as Self
Mayor of the Sunset Strip
Movie · as Self
Comedy Central Roasts
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Trapped
Movie · as Cheryl
The Osbournes
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Julie Johnson
Movie · as Claire
Bounce: Behind The Velvet Rope
Movie
Last Party 2000
Movie · as Self
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Beat
Movie · as Joan Vollmer Burroughs
Man on the Moon
Movie · as Lynne Margulies
200 Cigarettes
Movie · as Lucy
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Hole: The Electric Factory
Movie
Hole: Big Day Out 1999
Movie
Kurt & Courtney
Movie · as Self
The Righteous Babes
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Inside the Golden Statue
Movie · as Self
Doll Crafting with Dame Darcy & Courtney Love
Movie
The View
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Behind the Music
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Elle Style Awards
TV · as Self, Self - Winner · 1 ep
Storyville
TV · 1 ep
Basquiat
Movie · as Big Pink
The People vs. Larry Flynt
Movie · as Althea Leasure
Feeling Minnesota
Movie · as Rhonda
E! True Hollywood Story
TV · 1 ep
TFI Friday
TV · 1 ep
Not Bad for a Girl
Movie · as Self
Hole: Live at The Metro (Chicago, 1994)
Movie
Hole: MTV Unplugged
Movie · as Lead Vocals, Guitar
No Alternative Girls
Movie · as Herself
Hole - Live Through This
Movie
Late Show with David Letterman
TV · as Self - Guest/Musical Guest · 1 ep
1991: The Year Punk Broke
Movie · as Self
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV · 1 ep
Later... with Jools Holland
TV · 3 eps
Hole: Live at The Lemon Grove (Exeter, 1991)
Movie · as Herself
Hole: Live at Club Lingerie (Hollywood, 1990)
Movie · as Herself
The Word
TV · 1 ep
Tapeheads
Movie · as Norman's Spanker (uncredited)
Straight to Hell
Movie · as Velma
Sid and Nancy
Movie · as Gretchen
Club Vatican
Movie
MTV Video Music Awards
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 1 ep