David Eric "Dave" Grohl (born January 14, 1969) is an American rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter who is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter for the Foo Fighters; the former drummer for Nirvana and Scream; the drummer for Them Crooked Vultures; and wrote all the music for his short-lived side projects Late! and Probot. He has also been involved with Queens of the Stone Age, and has performed session work for a variety of musicians, including Killing Joke, Tenacious D, Nine Inch Nails, The Prodigy, Slash and Juliette Lewis. Dave Grohl has performed in over 30 bands since becoming a musician.

Filmography

• 2023WINO: The Documentary
• 2022Studio 666 — Dave Grohl, Executive Producer, Story
• From Cradle to Stage — Self, Executive Producer, Director
• 2021I'm in the Band
• 2021What Drives Us — Director
• 2020Bill & Ted Face the Music — Dave Grohl
• Duncanville — Ronnie D (voice)
• 2020Times Like Those: Foo Fighters 25th Anniversary — Director, Executive Producer
• The Morning Show — Dave Grohl
• 2018Play — Self, Director
• 2016The Smart Studios Story
• 2015Foo Fighters - Rio De Janeiro — Self - Vocals, Guitars
• 2015Foo Fighters - Rock am Ring — Self - Vocals, Guitar
• Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll — Dave Grohl
• Foo Fighters Sonic Highways — Self, Director, Executive Producer, Creator
• 201312-12-12
• Drunk History — Memphis Mafia Member
• 2013Sound City — Self, Producer, Actor's Assistant, Director
• 2011Nirvana: Live at the Paramount — Self - Drums, Backing Vocals, Author
• 2011The Muppets — Animool
• 2010Them Crooked Vultures: Teenage Cancer Trust
• 2008Foo Fighters: Live At Wembley Stadium — Self - Vocals, Guitars
• Lil' Bush
• Metalocalypse
• 2006Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny — Satan
• 2004Nirvana: With the Lights Out
• 2003Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood — Thanks
• 2002Queens Of The Stone Age – Songs For The Deaf (Real #1)
• 2000Daria in 'Is It Fall Yet?' — Daniel (voice)
• 1997Touch — Original Music Composer
• 1996Hype!
• TFI Friday
• 1995Foo Fighters - I'm OK, Eur OK - Live Brixton, UK 1995 — Self - Guitar, Lead Vocals
• 1994Nirvana: Terminal 1, Munich
• Space Ghost Coast to Coast
• 1993Nirvana: Unplugged In New York — Self - Drums, Bass, Backing Vocals, Songs
• 1993Nirvana: Unplugged in New York - Rehearsal — Self - Drums, Vocals
• 1993Nirvana: Veterans Memorial Coliseum Phoenix, Az
• The X-Files — Lobby Passerby (uncredited)
• Later... with Jools Holland
• 1991Nirvana: Astoria Theater London
• 1991Nirvana: Live in Amsterdam 1991 — Self - Drums, Backing Vocals
• 1991Nirvana: Smells Like Teen Spirit — Dave Grohl
• 1990Nirvana - Live on Leeds Polytechnic, UK, 1990 — Self - Drums, Backing Vocals
• The Word
• Foo Fighters - Music Video Collection
• Foo Fighters: Live at Pinkpop 2026
• Foo Fighters: Tibetan Freedom Concert
• The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All — Theme Song Performance
• Them Crooked Vultures (2010) Live at BBC Radio 1, London, UK on March 24, 2010

Appearances as themselves (169)

• 2026Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt — Self
• 2026Other Voices Presents: Foo Fighters — Himself
• Saturday Night Live UK — Self - Musical Guest
• 2026The Best Summer — Self
• 2025Amazon Music Live: Foo Fighters — Himself
• 2025FireAid Benefit Concert — Self
• 2025Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music — Self
• SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night — Self
• 2025SNL50: The Homecoming Concert — Self
• Hot Ones Versus — Self
• 2023Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story — Self
• 2023Foo Fighters - Austin City Limits — self
• 2023Foo Fighters - Live At The Town 2023 — Self
• 2023Foo Fighters - Live at Rock am Ring 2023 — Self
• 2023Foo Fighters: Preparing Music for Concerts — Self
• 2023I Hate Myself and I Want to Die — Self (archive footage)
• 2023The Teacher — Self
• 2023Warren Haynes Presents: The Benefit Concert Volume 20 — Self
• 20222022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony — Self - Performer
• 2022ABBA V Queen — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Foo Fighters-Superbowl LVI Aftershow in Virtual Reality — Self
• 2022Foo Fighters: One Less Hero — Self
• 2022Gary Numan: Resurrection — Self
• Paul McCartney at Glastonbury Festival — Self
• 2022Steve Vai - His First 30 Years: The Documentary — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert — Self
• 20212021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony — Self
• Biography: KISStory — Self
• 2021Celebrating America — Self
• 2021Foo Fighters Live at Madison Square Garden (June 20, 2021) — Self
• 2021Foo Fighters-Live From Lollapalooza 2021 — Self
• 2021Grunge: A Story of Music and Rage — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World — Self - Performer
• Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson — Self
• 2021When Nirvana Came to Britain — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Amazon Music Holiday Plays: Foo Fighters — Self
• 2020FOX Presents the iHeart Living Room Concert for America — Self - Performer
• 2020Let's Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute to Prince — Self
• 2020Ringo Starr’s Big Birthday Show — Self - Performer
• 2020The Big Night In — Self
• 2019Foo Fighters - Reading Festival — Self
• 2019Foo Fighters: Hurricane Festival 2019 — Self
• 2019Foo Fighters: Rock In Rio — Self
• 2019Foo Fighters: Southside Festival 2019 — Self
• 2019Liam Gallagher: As It Was — Self
• Punk — Self
• Ryan's Mystery Playdate — Self
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• 2018Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records — Self
• Reel Stories — Self - Guest Star
• 2018Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame: In Concert 2014-2017 — Self
• 2017Foo Fighters - Cheese and Grain, Frome, UK — Self
• 2017Foo Fighters - NOS Alive 2017 — Self
• 2017Foo Fighters – Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special — Self
• 2016Desert Age: A Rock and Roll Scene History — Self
• Soundbreaking — Self
• 2016The Road to ACL — Self
• 2015All Things Must Pass — Self
• 2015Cobain: Montage of Heck — Self (archive footage)
• 2015Cássia — Self (archive footage)
• 2015Foo Fighters - BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend 2015 — Self
• Hot Ones — Self
• 2015Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony — Self
• 2015Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90) — Self
• The Late Late Show with James Corden — Self, Self - Guest
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest/Musical Guest
• The Muppets — Self
• 2014Austin City Limits Celebrates 40 Years — Self - Performer
• 2014Led Zeppelin Played Here — Self (archive footage)
• 2014Making Of The Grohl Sessions Vol. 1 — Himself
• Off Camera with Sam Jones — Self
• 2014Positive Force: More Than a Witness - 30 Years of Punk Politics in Action — self
• 2014Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony — Self
• 2014Slash: Raised On the Sunset Strip — Self
• 2014The Concert for Valor — Self - Performer
• 2014The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• 2013Filmage: The Story of Descendents/All — Self
• 2013Great American Rock Anthems: Turn It Up to 11 — Self - Nirvana
• 2013Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Ceremony — Self
• 201212-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief — Self
• 2012A MusiCares Tribute To Paul McCartney — Self
• 2012Bad Brains: A Band in DC — Self
• 2012Foo Fighters - Global Citizen Festival — Self
• 2012Foo Fighters - Reading Festival — Self
• 2012See a Little Light: A Celebration of the Music and Legacy of Bob Mould — Self
• 2011Foo Fighters - Garage Tour — Self
• 2011Foo Fighters - Live in London — Self
• 2011Foo Fighters - Wasting Light Live From 606 — Self
• 2011Foo Fighters -T in The Park — Self
• 2011Foo Fighters The Roundhouse Concert — Self - Lead vocal
• 2011Foo Fighters: A Hard Day's Light — Self
• 2011Foo Fighters: Back and Forth — Self
• 2011Foo Fighters: Live At Pinkpop Festival — Self - Vocals
• 2011Man With the Midas Touch — Self
• 2011Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses — Self
• 2011The Nation's Favourite Bee Gees Song — Self
• 2010Lemmy — Self
• 2010Nirvana: Live On Air — Self
• 2010Tenacious D Live at BlizzCon 2010 — Self
• 2010Them Crooked Vultures - Live at Rock am Ring 2010 — Self
• 2009Foo Fighters - Greatest Hits — Self
• 2009Foo Fighters - Live Performance from Studio 606 — Self
• 2009Nirvana: Live at Reading — Self - Drums
• Skavlan — Self - Guest
• 2009Them Crooked Vultures - Live at Canal+ Studio — Self
• 2008D Tour: A Tenacious Documentary — Self
• 2008Paul McCartney: The Liverpool Sound — Self
• 2008VH1 Rock Honors: The Who — Self
• Seven Ages of Rock — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self, Self - Performer
• 2007Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream — Self
• 2006All Apologies: Kurt Cobain 10 Years On — Self
• 2006Foo Fighters: Hyde Park — Self
• 2006Foo Fighters: Skin and Bones — Self
• 2006Nirvana - In Utero: Under Review — Self (archive footage)
• 2006Nirvana - the Definitive Critical Review — Self
• 2006Nirvana The Path from Incesticide to In Utero — Self
• 2006VH1 Rock Honors — Self
• 2005Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind — Self
• 2005I Walk the Line: A Night for Johnny Cash — Self
• 2005Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast — Self
• 2005Ten Years Later — Himself
• 2005The Britpop Story 'It Really, Really, Really, Could Happen' — Self (archive footage)
• The Colbert Report — Self - Guest
• 2004(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale — Self
• 2004I've Been Twelve Forever: The Work of Director Michel Gondry — Self
• 2004Lit: All Access — Self
• 2004Supergrass: A Home Movie — Self
• 2004The Other Side of AIDS — self - Foo Fighters
• 2003Foo Fighters - Everywhere But Home — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Musical Guest, Self - Guest
• 2003Tenacious D: In the Studio — Self
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• 2003The Work of Director Michel Gondry — Self
• Viva La Bam — Self
• 200125 Years of Punk — Self
• 2001VH1 News Special: Grunge — Self (archive footage)
• The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn — Self
• 1998Free Tibet — Self - Foo Fighters
• Classic Albums — Self - Interviewee
• 1997David Bowie Birthday Celebration Live in NYC — Self
• 1997David Bowie: An Earthling at 50 — Self
• Leute heute — Self
• The Daily Show — Self
• MTV Europe Music Awards — Self
• 1994Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! — Self - Drums
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• Late Show with David Letterman — Self - Musical Guest
• 1993MTV Unplugged: Nirvana — Self
• 1993Nirvana: Live and Loud — Self - Drums
• 1993Nirvana: Live at Hollywood Rock Festival — Self
• 1993RuPaul's Christmas Ball — Self
• 19921991: The Year Punk Broke — Self
• 1991Nirvana: Live at the Paradiso — Self
• 1991Nirvana: Live in Dallas — Self
• 1991Nirvana: Teatro Castello, Rome, Italy — Self
• 1991Sub Pop Video Network Program 1 — Self (archive footage)
• Rock in Rio — Self - Performer
• MTV Video Music Awards — Self
• Austin City Limits — Self
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Musical Guest
• Sesame Street — Self
• The Grammys — Self
• Are We Not Men? — Self
• Foo Fighters Live at iTunes Festival London — Self
• Live Earth: A Concert for a Climate in Crisis — Self
• Nirvana: Teen Spirit Interviews — Self
• Shouting Through The Letterhole — Self (archive footage)