Courtney Love
Courtney Michelle Love (née Harrison; born July 9, 1964) is an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and actress. 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.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Especial Courtney Love PT1: A Infância e a Adolescência da Cantora Autista as Courtney Love
- 2022 · Meet Me in the Bathroom as Self (archive footage)
- 2021 · Kalvøyafestivalen - 50 år siden første riff as Self (archive footage)
- 2021 · Never Mind the Buzzcocks as Self - Guest Team Captain
- 2021 · Arianne Phillips: Dressing the Part as Self
- 2021 · The Long Home as Pearl
- 2019 · J.T. LeRoy as Sasha
- 2018 · Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen as Self - Performer
- 2017 · L7: Pretend We're Dead as Self
- 2017 · Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond as Self
- 2017 · A Midsummer's Nightmare as
- 2017 · Menendez: Blood Brothers as Kitty Menendez
- 2016 · Franca: Chaos and Creation as Self
- 2016 · Author: The JT LeRoy Story as Herself
- 2015 · Cobain: Montage of Heck as Self
- 2015 · Empire as Elle Dallas
- 2014 · The Young Blood Chronicles as The Head Bitch In Charge
- 2012 · Hit So Hard as Self
- 2012 · Sunset Strip as Self
- 2011 · Bob and the Monster as Herself
- 2011 · Revenge as White Gold
- 2010 · The Dark Night of the Soul as
- 2009 · Alan Carr: Chatty Man as Self
- 2009 · RuPaul's Drag Race as Self - Judge
- 2008 · Sons of Anarchy as Ms. Harrison
- 2007 · Welcome to My Castle! as Self
- 2007 · Keeping Up with the Kardashians as Self
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2006 · The Russell Brand Show as Self
- 2006 · The Return of Courtney Love as Self
- 2005 · Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson as Self
- 2005 · Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula as Caligula
- 2004 · (This Is Known as) The Blues Scale as Self
- 2003 · Comedy Central Roasts as Self
- 2003 · Mayor of the Sunset Strip as Self
- 2002 · Trapped as Cheryl Hickey
- 2001 · Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self - Guest
- 2001 · Last Party 2000 as Self
- 2001 · Bounce: Behind The Velvet Rope as
- 2001 · Julie Johnson as Claire
- 2000 · Beat as Joan Vollmer Burroughs
- 1999 · Man on the Moon as Lynne Margulies
- 1999 · Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl as Narrator (voice)
- 1999 · 200 Cigarettes as Lucy
- 1998 · The Righteous Babes as Self (archive footage)
- 1998 · Kurt & Courtney as Self
- 1998 · Inside the Golden Statue as Self
- 1997 · Behind the Music as Self
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1996 · The People vs. Larry Flynt as Althea Leasure
- 1996 · Feeling Minnesota as Rhonda the Waitress
- 1996 · E! True Hollywood Story as
- 1996 · Basquiat as Big Pink
- 1995 · Hole: MTV Unplugged as Lead Vocals, Guitar
- 1995 · Not Bad for a Girl as Self
- 1995 · Hole - Live at The Metro (Chicago, 1994) as
- 1994 · No Alternative Girls as Herself
- 1992 · 1991: The Year Punk Broke as Self
- 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as
- 1988 · Tapeheads as Norman's Spanker (uncredited)
- 1987 · Straight to Hell as Velma
- 1986 · Sid and Nancy as Gretchen
- 1984 · MTV Video Music Awards as Self
- 1984 · Club Vatican as
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Musical Guest
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self