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Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 9, 1964
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA
Courtney Love
0.6 Popularity
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Courtney Love, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
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Self
Antiheroine
2026
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Self
Broken English
2025
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Self (archive footage)
James Blunt: One Brit Wonder
2023
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Self (archive footage)
I Hate Myself and I Want to Die
2023
5.5
Self (archive footage)
Meet Me in the Bathroom
2022
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Self (archive footage)
Kalvøyafestivalen - 50 år siden første riff
2021
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Self - Guest Team Captain
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
2021
10.0
Self
Arianne Phillips: Dressing the Part
2021
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(archive footage)
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020
5.4
Sasha
J.T. LeRoy
2019
Credits
Antiheroine
as Self
2026
0.0
Broken English
as Self
2025
8.0
James Blunt: One Brit Wonder
as Self (archive footage)
2023
7.0
I Hate Myself and I Want to Die
as Self (archive footage)
2023
0.0
Meet Me in the Bathroom
as Self (archive footage)
2022
5.5
Kalvøyafestivalen - 50 år siden første riff
as Self (archive footage)
2021
0.0
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
as Self - Guest Team Captain
2021
7.8
Arianne Phillips: Dressing the Part
as Self
2021
10.0
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
as (archive footage)
2020
0.0
J.T. LeRoy
as Sasha
2019
5.4
Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen
as Self - Performer
2018
10.0
L7: Pretend We're Dead
as Self
2017
7.0
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
as Self
2017
7.5
A Midsummer's Nightmare
2017
10.0
Menendez: Blood Brothers
as Kitty Menendez
2017
5.1
Franca: Chaos and Creation
as Self
2016
7.4
Author: The JT LeRoy Story
as Herself
2016
6.6
Cobain: Montage of Heck
as Self
2015
7.6
Empire
as Elle Dallas
2015
7.1
The Young Blood Chronicles
as The Head Bitch In Charge
2014
8.3
Hit So Hard
as Self
2012
5.0
Sunset Strip
as Self
2012
7.3
Bob and the Monster
as Herself
2011
6.3
Revenge
as White Gold
2011
7.6
The Dark Night of the Soul
2010
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Alan Carr: Chatty Man
as Self
2009
4.9
RuPaul's Drag Race
as Self - Guest Judge
2009
7.5
Sons of Anarchy
as Ms. Harrison
2008
8.4
Welcome to My Castle!
as Self
2007
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Keeping Up with the Kardashians
as Self
2007
7.4
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
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The Russell Brand Show
as Self
2006
10.0
The Return of Courtney Love
as Self
2006
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Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson
as Self
2005
6.5
Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula
as Caligula
2005
5.8
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
as Self
2004
0.0
Comedy Central Roasts
as Self
2003
7.0
Mayor of the Sunset Strip
as Self
2003
6.8
Trapped
as Cheryl
2002
6.2
The Osbournes
as Self
2002
5.9
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
as Self - Guest
2001
6.0
Last Party 2000
as Self
2001
6.1
Bounce: Behind The Velvet Rope
2001
5.2
Julie Johnson
as Claire
2001
5.3
Beat
as Joan Vollmer Burroughs
2000
4.8
Man on the Moon
as Lynne Margulies
1999
7.2
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
as Narrator (voice)
1999
7.7
Hole: The Electric Factory
1999
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200 Cigarettes
as Lucy
1999
5.8
The Righteous Babes
as Self (archive footage)
1998
1.0
Kurt & Courtney
as Self
1998
6.0
Inside the Golden Statue
as Self
1998
6.3
Behind the Music
as Self
1997
7.2
The View
as Self
1997
4.3
The People vs. Larry Flynt
as Althea Leasure
1996
7.0
Feeling Minnesota
as Rhonda the Waitress
1996
5.4
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
8.1
Basquiat
as Big Pink
1996
6.6
Hole: MTV Unplugged
as Lead Vocals, Guitar
1995
10.0
Not Bad for a Girl
as Self
1995
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Hole: Live at The Metro (Chicago, 1994)
1995
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Hole: Violet
as Herself
1995
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Hole - Live Through This
1994
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Hole: Doll Parts
as Herself
1994
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🎬
No Alternative Girls
as Herself
1994
7.0
Hole: Miss World
as Herself
1994
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1991: The Year Punk Broke
as Self
1992
6.8
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
5.4
Hole: Garbadge Man
as Herself
1992
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Hole: Live at The Lemon Grove (Exeter, 1991)
as Herself
1991
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Hole: Live at Club Lingerie (Hollywood, 1990)
as Herself
1990
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Tapeheads
as Norman's Spanker (uncredited)
1988
5.3
Straight to Hell
as Velma
1987
5.3
Sid and Nancy
as Gretchen
1986
6.7
MTV Video Music Awards
as Self
1984
7.7
Club Vatican
1984
6.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Musical Guest
1975
7.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
🎬
The Long Home
as Pearl
N/A
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