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Courtney Love
Born: 9th Jul 1964 San Francisco, California, USA
Dept: Acting
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).
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 83
Film: 63 (76%)
Television: 20 (24%)
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Filmography
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An upcoming movie about legendary American Alternative Rock band Weezer. ... view
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A young contractor is hired to build a honky-tonk in Tennessee by the man who killed his father. ... view
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Pearl
2026
Singer, songwriter, and actor Courtney Love has long had an impact on rock and pop culture. Now sober and set to release new music for the first time ... view
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Self
2026
A survivor, provocateur and true original, Marianne has spent more than six decades defying expectations — releasing over thirty-five albums while c ... view
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Self
2023
Filmed on the road during his 2022 Greatest Hit Tour, director Chris Atkins followed James Blunt across Europe and delves into James Blunt's unique ba ... view
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Self (archive footage)
2023
Found footage archival documentary chronicling the brief, bright ascendance of the musical combo Nirvana. ... view
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Self (archive footage)
2022
Set against the backdrop of 9/11, this documentary tells the story of how a new generation kickstarted a musical rebirth for New York City that reverb ... view
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Self (archive footage)
2021
In 1971, the Kalvøya adventure started with shows, jazz and folk rock and the festival developed into "The mother of all Norwegian festivals". ... view
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Self (archive footage)
Sep 2021 (first aired)
The iconic pop culture panel show featuring host Greg Davies, who is joined by regulars Noel Fielding & Jamali Maddix for music-themed mayhem. ... view
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Self - Guest Team Captain (1 ep.)
2021
Movies, music and Madonna: behind the scenes with Arianne Phillips, the award-winning costume designer and stylist. See how a shy misfit rebel became ... view
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Self
2020
THE AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE VAULT is a 2-disc, 500-minute odyssey that collects eight feature-length VHS mixtapes from the crackpots at AGFA—including ... view
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(archive footage)
2019
A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be a transgender writer named JT Leroy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-i ... view
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Sasha
2018
A star-studded musical celebration in tribute to Leonard Cohen—the Montreal-born writer, composer, performer and man of letters—that took place in ... view
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Self - Performer
2017
A real time journey witnessing the rise, fall, and ultimate redemption of the fierce feminist pioneers of American grunge punk: L7. ... view
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Self
2017
Offbeat documentarian Chris Smith provides a behind-the-scenes look at how Jim Carrey adopted the persona of idiosyncratic comedian Andy Kaufman on th ... view
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Self
2017
Four young lovers head into the woods to pursue their romantic desires, however, their plans are soon jeopardized when terrifying forces attack, using ... view
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2017
Lyle and Eric Menendez were nice, educated boys from Beverly Hills, which makes the murder of their parents even more inexplicable. Never-before-seen ... view
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Kitty Menendez
2016
Director Francesco Carrozzini creates an intimate portrait of his mother, Franca Sozzani, the legendary editor-in-chief of Italian Vogue. From the rid ... view
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Self
2016
New York magazine’s October 2005 issue sent shockwaves through the literary world when it unmasked “it boy” wunderkind JT LeRoy, whose tough pro ... view
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Herself
2015
Hailed as one of the most innovative and intimate documentaries of all time, experience Kurt Cobain like never before in the only ever fully authorize ... view
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Self
Jan 2015 (first aired)
A powerful family drama about the head of a music empire whose three sons and ex-wife all battle for his throne. ... view
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Elle Dallas (2 ep.)
2014
The members of Fall Out Boy undergo kidnappings, torture, and murder at the hands of Courtney Love, the leader of a cult with one aim: to silence the ... view
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The Head Bitch In Charge
2012
The rise to fame (and the near-fatal fall from it) of Patty Schemel, drummer for Courtney Love's seminal rock band, Hole. Given a Hi-8 video camera ju ... view
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Self
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Self
2011
Six years in the making, this documentary film follows outspoken indie-rock hero Bob Forrest, through his life-threatening struggle with addiction, to ... view
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Herself
Sep 2011 (first aired)
When Emily Thorne moves to the Hamptons, everyone wonders about the new girl, but she knows everything about them, including what they did to her fami ... view
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White Gold (3 ep.)
2010
A short animation clip where the star Courtney Love is trying to become dignified and elegant. Her friend tells her she must lose her kook. She has tr ... view
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Jun 2009 (first aired)
Alan Carr: Chatty Man is a BAFTA award-winning British comedy chat show presented by comedian Alan Carr. The show features interviews with celebrity g ... view
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Self (1 ep.)
Feb 2009 (first aired)
Join RuPaul, the world's most famous drag queen, as the host, mentor and judge for the ultimate in drag queen competitions. The top drag queens in the ... view
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Self - Guest Judge (1 ep.)
Sep 2008 (first aired)
The Sons of Anarchy (SOA) are an outlaw motorcycle club with many charters in the United States and overseas. The show focused on the original and fou ... view
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Ms. Harrison (4 ep.)
2007
Over 5 hours of full-length interviews with Nirvana, Tommy Chong, Sonic Youth, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Ron Jeremy, and many more. Includes videos of Na ... view
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Self
Oct 2007 (first aired)
A peek inside the exploits and privileged private lives of the blended Kardashian-Jenner family, including sisters Kim, Kourtney and Khloé. ... view
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Self (1 ep.)
2007
As the front man of the Clash from 1977 onwards, Joe Strummer changed people's lives forever. Four years after his death, his influence reaches out ar ... view
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Feb 2007 (first aired)
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and sha ... view
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Self (1 ep.)
Nov 2006 (first aired)
The Russell Brand Show is a chat show presented by Russell Brand. It aired on the British terrestrial TV channel Channel 4 and was broadcast on Friday ... view
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Self (1 ep.)
2006
This VH1 Rock Doc traces the highs and lows of Courtney Love's career. ... view
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Self
2005
Comedy Central's best roasters and stand up comedians take a whack at actor/model Pamela Anderson. ... view
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Self
2005
This is a short film based on the 1979 film of the same name. The film is stylized with the actors wearing modernized robes and Roman jewelry and fema ... view
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Caligula
2004
While planning the eventual DVD release for "1991: The Year Punk Broke", Dave Markey cut a 40-minute film out of unused footage to create a companion ... view
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Self
Aug 2003 (first aired)
Celebrities and comedians belt out good-natured insult comedy jokes at the expense of a guest of honour. The event is hosted by a Roast Master who als ... view
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Self (1 ep.)
2003
A look at the history of fame in the world through the eyes of pop star impresario, Rodney Bingenheimer ... view
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Self
2002
When their daughter is abducted by experienced kidnappers, the Jennings turn the tables on their seemingly fool-proof plan. ... view
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Cheryl
Mar 2002 (first aired)
The Osbournes is an American reality television program featuring the domestic life of heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne and his family. The series pre ... view
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Self (1 ep.)
2001
Filmed over the last six months of the 2000 Presidential election, Phillip Seymour Hoffman starts documenting the campaign at the Republican and Democ ... view
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Self
Nov 2001 (first aired)
Jonathan Ross's take on current topics of conversation, guest interviews and live music from both a guest music group and the house band. ... view
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Self - Guest (1 ep.)
2001
Steven Cantor's award-winning documentary chronicles of the lives of bouncers - the burly boys who guard both sides of the door in nightclubs across A ... view
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2001
A New Jersey housewife is dissatisfied with her everyday life because she is smarter than she or anyone else knows. While taking a computer class, she ... view
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Claire
2000
The true story of two murders that shaped the lives of several college students who went on to become some of the most influential writers of the "Bea ... view
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Joan Vollmer Burroughs
1999
The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman. ... view
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Lynne Margulies
1999
Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members and acquaintances. ... view
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Narrator (voice)
1999
In 1981 New York City, a collection of twentysomethings try to cope with relationships, loneliness, desire and their individual neuroses on New Years ... view
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Lucy
1998
The Righteous Babes shows how the self-affirmative music of young women is renewing the 90's feminism. In the film, audience can experience feminism n ... view
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Self (archive footage)
1998
After rocker Kurt Cobain's death, ruled a suicide, a film crew arrives in Seattle to make a documentary. Director Nick Broomfield talks to lots of peo ... view
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Self
1998
A behind-the-scenes look at the preparations for the live broadcast of the 69th Annual Academy Awards ceremony. ... view
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Self
Sep 1997 (first aired)
The Elle Style Awards is a prestigious annual event hosted by ELLE magazine that celebrates excellence in fashion, entertainment, and culture. Often r ... view
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Self (1 ep.)
Self - Winner (1 ep.)
Aug 1997 (first aired)
An intimate look into the personal lives of pop music's greatest and most influential artists. ... view
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Self (1 ep.)
Aug 1997 (first aired)
ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro discu ... view
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Self (2 ep.)
1997
A short segment aired on the public access tv series "Turn of the Century". The short features Dame Darcy, Courtney Love, and Eric Erlandson learning ... view
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1996
Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living p ... view
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Althea Leasure
1996
Sam Clayton's marriage to ex-stripper Freddie comes about when she's strong-armed into the match by Red, a club proprietor who once did her a favor. B ... view
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Rhonda the Waitress
Aug 1996 (first aired)
E! True Hollywood Story is an American documentary series on E! that deals with famous Hollywood celebrities, movies, TV shows and also well-known pub ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1996
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity. ... view
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Big Pink
1995
On February 14, 1995, Hole recorded a live acoustic performance in front of an audience at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City. Along with ... view
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Lead Vocals, Guitar
1995
A documentary on women musicians of the 1990s from the indie rock music genre, grunge and riot grrrl including Hole, Babes in Toyland, L7 and more. ... view
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Self
1995
Hole's performance at The Metro on October 21, 1994. The show was taped and then broadcast on "ABC In Concert" in 1995. ... view
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1995
Hole performs in the short film "Violet" from the album "Live Through This." The short features Courtney Love singing as she stands in front of a pain ... view
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Herself
1994
In this live performance, Hole showcases many of their songs from Live Through this. Live Through This is the second studio album by American alternat ... view
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1994
Hole performs in the short film "Doll Parts" from the album "Live Through This." The music video begins with a black and white sequence of Courtney Lo ... view
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Herself
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Herself
1994
Hole performs in the short film "Miss World" from the album "Live Through This." The short begins with Courtney Love singing as she is putting powder ... view
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Herself
Aug 1993 (first aired)
David Letterman uses mature humor to appeal to his audience in this weeknight series, which gets its music from a house band led by Paul Shaffer. Amon ... view
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Self - Guest/Musical Guest (1 ep.)
1992
David Markey's documentary of life on the road with Sonic Youth and Nirvana during their tour of Europe in late 1991. Also featuring live performances ... view
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Self
May 1992 (first aired)
Jay Leno hosts some of the biggest celebrities in the world. ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1992
First video by the original line-up of the band Hole. First premiered on MTV with an interview by Courtney Love and Kim Gordon, from the band Sonic Yo ... view
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Herself
1991
Hole's performance at The Lemon Grove on 11 December 1991. The first show where Courtney teased Surrender by Cheap Trick. It recurred throughout the r ... view
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Herself
1990
Hole’s performance at Club Lingerie on October 10, 1990, documents an early live appearance by the band. ... view
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Herself
1988
The story of Ivan and Josh, two dimwitted ex-security guards who love music videos. Out of work, with no job prospects, they form a music video produc ... view
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Norman's Spanker (uncredited)
1987
A gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. After burying the loot, they find their way to a surreal town full ... view
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Velma
1986
January 1978. After their success in England, the punk rock band Sex Pistols venture out on their tour of the southern United States. Temperamental ba ... view
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Gretchen
Sep 1984 (first aired)
An annual award ceremony presented by MTV to honor the best in the music video medium. ... view
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Self (2 ep.)
1984
Kuchar’s childhood was heavily shaped by Catholic sexual repression and guilt. Movies acted as an escape from day-to-day life, a parallel reality th ... view
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Mar 1953 (first aired)
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuett ... view
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Self (1 ep.)