Patricia Lee Smith is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and poet who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called the "punk poet laureate," Smith fused rock and poetry in her work.

Filmography

• 2026Little, Big, and Far — Executive Producer
• 2026Oliviero Toscani. Chi mi ama mi segua
• 2024Turn in the Wound — Original Music Composer
• 2023Joan Baez: I Am a Noise — Executive Producer
• 2019Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese — The Punk Poet
• 2018Kurt Everywhere
• 2018Spheres — Narrator (Voice)
• 2017Song to Song — Patti Smith
• 2016The Book of Conrad
• 2016U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris
• 2015Counting — Executive Producer
• 2015U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015
• 2014Noah — Songs
• 2014Station to Station
• 2014Three Stones for Jean Genet — Screenplay
• 2013Lou Reed - Remembered
• 2012Museum Hours — Executive Producer
• 2010Film Socialisme — La chanteuse
• 2009Long for the City (Patti Smith in New York) — herself, Screenplay
• 2008New York Rock at the BBC
• 2008The Passage Clock: For Walter Benjamin — Narrator
• 2007NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell
• The Colbert Report
• 2003R.E.M.: In View 1988-2003 (The Best of R.E.M.)
• 2003The Big Empty — Traveler
• 2002What the Punk - An MVD Sampler
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Cleo Alexander
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force — Songs
• 1999Laboratorium Anthology
• 1998The Rugrats Movie — Newborn Baby (singing voice)
• Saturday Night Special
• Later... with Jools Holland
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• 1984Rock My Religion
• 1971Robert Having His Nipple Pierced — Narrator (uncredited)
• 1971West Side Stories
• The Song of Hiawatha

Appearances as themselves (75)

• 2026Nova '78 — Self (archive footage)
• 2026Portrait of an Artist: Stephen Curry — Self
• 2026Tribeca 25 — Self
• 2025Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music — Self (archive footage)
• 2024Go to Izzy! — Herself
• 2024One-Hit Wonders at the BBC: Volume Two — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Chornobyl — Self
• 2023Ron Delsener Presents — Self
• 2022Patti Smith: Electric Poet — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer — Self
• 20212021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony — Self
• 2021Now — Self
• 2020Wim Wenders, Desperado — Self
• 2019Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal — Self
• 2019WBCN and the American Revolution — Self
• 2018Film catastrophe — Self
• 2018Horses: Patti Smith and Her Band — Herself
• 2017Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives — Self
• 2017Ex Libris: The New York Public Library — Self
• Popular Voices at the BBC — Self (archive footage)
• The Defiant Ones — Self
• 2016I Am La Scala — Self
• 2016Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures — Self (voice) (uncredited)
• 2015Girls in Bands at the BBC — Self (archive footage)
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self -Guest/Musical Guest
• 2014Bruce Springsteen A MusiCares Tribute — Self
• 2014The 8th Floor — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self, Self - Guest
• 2013Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis' — Self
• Sternstunde Musik — Self
• 2012Patti Smith - Live at Montreux 2005 — Herself
• 2012West of Memphis — Self – WM3 Supporter
• 2011Sleepless Nights Stories — Self
• 2010The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town — Self
• 2010William S. Burroughs: A Man Within — Self
• 2009All Tomorrow's Parties — Self
• 2009Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB — Self
• 2009The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts — Self
• 2008One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur — Self
• 2008Patti Smith: Dream of Life — Self
• 2007365 Day Project — Self
• 2007Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens — Self
• 2007Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe — Self
• 2007You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson — Self
• 2006Patti Smith at Anthology Film Archives Febr. 19, 1998 — Self
• 2006The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder: Punk & New Wave — Self
• Rockpolitik — Self
• Kulturplatz — Self
• The Culture Show — Self
• 2003Brian Wilson: On Tour — Self
• Gero von Boehm begegnet... — Self
• 2002Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You — Self
• 200125 Years of Punk — Self (archive footage)
• Democracy Now! — Self
• 2001Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock — Self
• 2000Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration — Self
• 2000Benjamin Smoke — Herself
• The Early Show — Self
• 1998John Cale: An Exploration of His Life & Music — Self (archive footage)
• 1997Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit — Self
• 1997The Best of Sessions at West 54th: Vol. 1 — Self
• 1996New Adventures in Hi-Fi Stereophonic on Film — Self
• 1995Dancing Barefoot — Self
• NeXt — Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Musical Guest
• 1986Women in Rock — Self (archive footage)
• 1984Burroughs: The Movie — Self
• 1980No. 18: Mahagonny — Self
• 1978Still Moving/Patti Smith — Herself
• 1977Patti Smith Live in Stockholm 1976 — Self
• 1976The Blank Generation — Self
• 1975Night Lunch — Self
• Saturday Night Live — Self (uncredited), Self - Musical Guest
• 1970Chelsea Hotel — Self
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self