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Courtney Love

Courtney Love

Known For Acting
Birthday Jul 09, 1964 (61)
Birthplace San Francisco, California, USA
Popularity 0.6 (history)
Updated Dec 19, 2024
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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Biography

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 roc ... k 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.

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Filmography

The Long Home

The Long Home

2021

as Pearl

J.T. LeRoy

J.T. LeRoy

2019

as Sasha

Menendez: Blood Brothers

Menendez: Blood Brothers

2017

as Kitty Menendez

The Young Blood Chronicles

The Young Blood Chronicles

2014

as The Head Bitch In Charge

Trapped

Trapped

2002

as Cheryl Hickey

Julie Johnson

Julie Johnson

2001

as Claire

Beat

Beat

2000

as Joan Vollmer Burroughs

Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl

Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl

1999

as Narrator (voice)

Man on the Moon

Man on the Moon

1999

as Lynne Margulies

200 Cigarettes

200 Cigarettes

1999

as Lucy

The People vs. Larry Flynt

The People vs. Larry Flynt

1996

as Althea Leasure

Feeling Minnesota

Feeling Minnesota

1996

as Rhonda the Waitress

Basquiat

Basquiat

1996

as Big Pink

Hole: MTV Unplugged

Hole: MTV Unplugged

1995

as Lead Vocals, Guitar

Tapeheads

Tapeheads

1988

as Norman's Spanker (uncredited)

Straight to Hell

Straight to Hell

1987

as Velma

Sid and Nancy

Sid and Nancy

1986

as Gretchen

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Not Bad for a Girl

Not Bad for a Girl

1995

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Sons of Anarchy

as Ms. Harrison

Episodes: 4

First Aired: Sep 03, 2008

Revenge

as White Gold

Episodes: 3

First Aired: Sep 21, 2011

Empire

as Elle Dallas

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Jan 07, 2015

The View

as Self

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Aug 11, 1997

MTV Video Music Awards

as Self

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Sep 14, 1984

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

as Self - Guest

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Nov 02, 2001

E! True Hollywood Story

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Aug 21, 1996

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Episodes: 1

First Aired: May 25, 1992

Alan Carr: Chatty Man

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jun 14, 2009

The Oscars

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Mar 19, 1953

Behind the Music

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Aug 17, 1997

The Graham Norton Show

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 22, 2007

Saturday Night Live

as Self - Musical Guest

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 11, 1975

RuPaul's Drag Race

as Self - Guest Judge

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 02, 2009

The Russell Brand Show

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Nov 24, 2006

Comedy Central Roasts

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Aug 10, 2003

Keeping Up with the Kardashians

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 14, 2007

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

as Self - Guest Team Captain

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 21, 2021

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