Courtney Love
Known for Acting · 83 credits
- Born
- 1964-07-09 (age 61)
- Place of birth
- San Francisco, California, USA
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 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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Known For
TV Shows (20)
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
as Self - Guest/Musical Guest
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
Sons of Anarchy
2008
as Ms. Harrison
The View
1997
as Self
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009
as Self - Guest Judge
Empire
2015
as Elle Dallas
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
2007
as Self
Revenge
2011
as White Gold
MTV Video Music Awards
1984
as Self
Behind the Music
1997
as Self
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
as Self - Guest
Comedy Central Roasts
2003
as Self
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
2009
as Self
The Osbournes
2002
as Self
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
2021
as Self - Guest Team Captain
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Elle Style Awards
1997
as Self / Self - Winner
The Russell Brand Show
2006
as Self
Movies (63)
Trapped
2002
as Cheryl
Man on the Moon
1999
as Lynne Margulies
The People vs. Larry Flynt
1996
as Althea Leasure
Basquiat
1996
as Big Pink
200 Cigarettes
1999
as Lucy
Sid and Nancy
1986
as Gretchen
Straight to Hell
1987
as Velma
The Long Home
as Pearl
Tapeheads
1988
as Norman's Spanker (uncredited)
Broken English
2026
as Self
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
2017
as Self
Last Party 2000
2001
as Self
Cobain: Montage of Heck
2015
as Self
Sunset Strip
2012
as Self
Mayor of the Sunset Strip
2003
as Self
Beat
2000
as Joan Vollmer Burroughs
Feeling Minnesota
1996
as Rhonda the Waitress
Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula
2005
as Caligula
Antiheroine
2026
as Self
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
2007
Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson
2005
as Self
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020
as (archive footage)
J.T. LeRoy
2019
as Sasha
Menendez: Blood Brothers
2017
as Kitty Menendez
Hit So Hard
2012
as Self
James Blunt: One Brit Wonder
2023
as Self (archive footage)
1991: The Year Punk Broke
1992
as Self
Author: The JT LeRoy Story
2016
as Herself
Kurt & Courtney
1998
as Self
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
1999
as Narrator (voice)
Kalvøyafestivalen - 50 år siden første riff
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Inside the Golden Statue
1998
as Self
Franca: Chaos and Creation
2016
as Self
L7: Pretend We're Dead
2017
as Self
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
2004
as Self
Meet Me in the Bathroom
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen
2018
as Self - Performer
Weezer: Security Threat
Not Bad for a Girl
1995
as Self
Welcome to My Castle!
2007
as Self
The Return of Courtney Love
2006
as Self
Bob and the Monster
2011
as Herself
A Midsummer's Nightmare
2017
Arianne Phillips: Dressing the Part
2021
as Self
Julie Johnson
2001
as Claire
No Alternative Girls
1994
as Herself
The Young Blood Chronicles
2014
as The Head Bitch In Charge
Club Vatican
1984
The Righteous Babes
1998
as Self (archive footage)
Hole: Live at The Metro (Chicago, 1994)
1995
Hole: MTV Unplugged
1995
as Lead Vocals, Guitar
Hole: The Electric Factory
1999
Bounce: Behind The Velvet Rope
2001
The Dark Night of the Soul
2010
Hole: Violet
1995
as Herself
Hole - Live Through This
1994
Hole: Garbadge Man
1992
as Herself
Doll Crafting with Dame Darcy & Courtney Love
1997
Hole: Doll Parts
1994
as Herself
I Hate Myself and I Want to Die
2023
as Self (archive footage)
Hole: Live at Club Lingerie (Hollywood, 1990)
1990
as Herself
Hole: Miss World
1994
as Herself
Hole: Live at The Lemon Grove (Exeter, 1991)
1991
as Herself
About Courtney Love
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,… With 83 credits spanning from 1953 to 2026, Courtney Love has appeared in 63 films and 20 TV shows.
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- Trapped (2002) — as Cheryl
- Man on the Moon (1999) — as Lynne Margulies
- The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) — as Althea Leasure
- Basquiat (1996) — as Big Pink
- 200 Cigarettes (1999) — as Lucy
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