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Courtney Love

Courtney Love

Acting · Sound

Born July 9, 1964, San Francisco, California, USA

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)

Filmography

Appearances as themselves (42)
  • 2026Antiheroine — Self
  • 2026Broken English — Self
  • 2023I Hate Myself and I Want to Die — Self (archive footage)
  • 2023James Blunt: One Brit Wonder — Self (archive footage)
  • 2022Meet Me in the Bathroom — Self (archive footage)
  • 2021Arianne Phillips: Dressing the Part — Self
  • 2021Kalvøyafestivalen - 50 år siden første riff — Self (archive footage)
  • Never Mind the Buzzcocks — Self - Guest Team Captain
  • 2018Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen — Self - Performer
  • 2017Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond — Self
  • 2017L7: Pretend We're Dead — Self
  • 2016Author: The JT LeRoy Story — Herself
  • 2016Franca: Chaos and Creation — Self
  • 2015Cobain: Montage of Heck — Self
  • 2012Hit So Hard — Self
  • 2012Sunset Strip — Self
  • 2011Bob and the Monster — Herself
  • Alan Carr: Chatty Man — Self
  • RuPaul's Drag Race — Self - Guest Judge
  • Keeping Up with the Kardashians — Self
  • The Graham Norton Show — Self
  • 2007Welcome to My Castle! — Self
  • 2006The Return of Courtney Love — Self
  • The Russell Brand Show — Self
  • 2005Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson — Self
  • 2004(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale — Self
  • Comedy Central Roasts — Self
  • 2003Mayor of the Sunset Strip — Self
  • The Osbournes — Self
  • Friday Night with Jonathan Ross — Self - Guest
  • 2001Last Party 2000 — Self
  • 1998Inside the Golden Statue — Self
  • 1998Kurt & Courtney — Self
  • 1998The Righteous Babes — Self (archive footage)
  • Behind the Music — Self
  • Elle Style Awards — Self, Self - Winner
  • The View — Self
  • 1994No Alternative Girls — Herself
  • Late Show with David Letterman — Self - Guest/Musical Guest
  • 19921991: The Year Punk Broke — Self
  • MTV Video Music Awards — Self
  • The Oscars — Self
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