
Patti Smith
Known for Acting · 100 credits
- Born
- 1946-12-30 (age 79)
- Place of birth
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Also known as
- Patricia Lee Smith
Biography
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.
Known For

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self / Self - Guest

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self -Guest/Musical Guest

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
as Cleo Alexander

Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self (uncredited) / Self - Musical Guest

The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self

The Colbert Report
2005
TV Shows (18)

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self / Self - Guest

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self -Guest/Musical Guest

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
as Cleo Alexander

Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self (uncredited) / Self - Musical Guest

The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self

The Colbert Report
2005

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Musical Guest

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992

Kulturplatz
2004
as Self

The Culture Show
2004
as Self

The Defiant Ones
2017
as Self
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
2002
as Self
NeXt
1994
as Self

The Early Show
1999
as Self
Saturday Night Special
1996

Rockpolitik
2005
as Self
Sternstunde Musik
2013
as Self

Popular Voices at the BBC
2017
as Self (archive footage)
Movies (82)

The Rugrats Movie
1998
as Newborn Baby (singing voice)

2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2021
as Self

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025
as Self (archive footage)

Song to Song
2017
as Patti Smith

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019
as The Punk Poet

Film Socialisme
2010
as La chanteuse

Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
as Self

Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
2007
as Self

Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives
2017
as Self

The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
2009
as Self

The Big Empty
2003
as Traveler

Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration
2000
as Self

Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
2013
as Self

West of Memphis
2012
as Self – WM3 Supporter

John Cale: An Exploration of His Life & Music
1998
as Self (archive footage)

Now
2021
as Self

Women in Rock
1986
as Self (archive footage)

Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020
as Self

Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
2009
as Self

365 Day Project
2007
as Self

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010
as Self

25 Years of Punk
2001
as Self (archive footage)

Bruce Springsteen A MusiCares Tribute
2014
as Self

The 8th Floor
2014
as Self

WBCN and the American Revolution
2019
as Self

The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town
2010
as Self

New York Rock at the BBC
2008

Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
2017
as Self

Burroughs: The Movie
1984
as Self

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
2016
as Self (voice) (uncredited)
Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock
2001
as Self

Lou Reed - Remembered
2013

Patti Smith: Dream of Life
2008
as Self

U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris
2016

Ron Delsener Presents
2023
as Self

Turn in the Wound
2024

Brian Wilson: On Tour
2003
as Self

You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson
2007
as Self

R.E.M.: In View 1988-2003 (The Best of R.E.M.)
2003

Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal
2019
as Self

Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
1997
as Self

The Blank Generation
1976
as Self

Girls in Bands at the BBC
2015
as Self (archive footage)

Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You
2002
as Self

Station to Station
2014

Rock My Religion
1984

Night Lunch
1975
as Self

Sleepless Nights Stories
2011
as Self

One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur
2008
as Self
Dancing Barefoot
1995
as Self

All Tomorrow's Parties
2009
as Self

I Am La Scala
2016
as Self

Film catastrophe
2018
as Self

Horses: Patti Smith and Her Band
2018
as Herself

Three Stones for Jean Genet
2014

NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell
2007

Patti Smith: Electric Poet
2022
as Self (archive footage)

The Best of Sessions at West 54th: Vol. 1
1997
as Self

Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
2007
as Self

Nova '78
2025
as Self (archive footage)

The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder: Punk & New Wave
2006
as Self

Spheres
2018
as Narrator (Voice)

One-Hit Wonders at the BBC: Volume Two
2024
as Self (archive footage)

U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015
2015
No. 18: Mahagonny
1980
as Self

Patti Smith - Live at Montreux 2005
2012
as Herself

Patti Smith Live in Stockholm 1976
1977
as Self

Patti Smith Group: Rockpalast 1979
1979
as Performer

Kurt Everywhere
2018

The Book of Conrad
2016

West Side Stories
1971

New Adventures in Hi-Fi Stereophonic on Film
1996
as Self

Patti Smith at Anthology Film Archives Febr. 19, 1998
1998
as Self

Chelsea Hotel
1970
as Self

Benjamin Smoke
2000
as Herself

Still Moving/Patti Smith
1978
as Herself

Chornobyl
2023
as Self

Long for the City (Patti Smith in New York)
2009
as herself

What the Punk - An MVD Sampler
2002
Robert Having His Nipple Pierced
1971
as Narrator (uncredited)

The Passage Clock: For Walter Benjamin
2008
as Narrator

Go to Izzy!
2024
as Herself
About Patti Smith
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. With 100 credits spanning from 1961 to 2025, Patti Smith has appeared in 82 films and 18 TV shows.
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Most Popular Patti Smith Movies
- The Rugrats Movie (1998) — as Newborn Baby (singing voice)
- 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (2021) — as Self
- Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music (2025) — as Self (archive footage)
- Song to Song (2017) — as Patti Smith
- Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019) — as The Punk Poet
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