
Courtney Love
Department: Acting
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

Basquiat
1996

The People vs. Larry Flynt
1996

Beat
2000

Man on the Moon
1999

Trapped
2002

Feeling Minnesota
1996

Straight to Hell
1987

Kurt & Courtney
1998

Sid and Nancy
1986

200 Cigarettes
1999

The Righteous Babes
1998

Not Bad for a Girl
1995

Meet Me in the Bathroom
2022

Hit So Hard
2012

Club Vatican
1984

Julie Johnson
2001

Kalvøyafestivalen - 50 år siden første riff
2021

Arianne Phillips: Dressing the Part
2021

Inside the Golden Statue
1998

Cobain: Montage of Heck
2015

Hole: Live at The Metro (Chicago, 1994)
1995

No Alternative Girls
1994

Bob and the Monster
2011

1991: The Year Punk Broke
1992

Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson
2005

The Return of Courtney Love
2006

Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula
2005

The Young Blood Chronicles
2014

The Long Home
—

Franca: Chaos and Creation
2016

Tapeheads
1988

Menendez: Blood Brothers
2017

Mayor of the Sunset Strip
2003

Sunset Strip
2012

The Dark Night of the Soul
2010

Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
2017

J.T. LeRoy
2019

Author: The JT LeRoy Story
2016

Bounce: Behind The Velvet Rope
2001

Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen
2018

(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
2004

A Midsummer's Nightmare
2017

L7: Pretend We're Dead
2017

Hole: MTV Unplugged
1995

Welcome to My Castle!
2007

Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
1999

Last Party 2000
2001

James Blunt: One Brit Wonder
2023

Hole - Live Through This
1994

I Hate Myself and I Want to Die
2023

The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020

Hole: The Electric Factory
1999

Broken English
2026

Hole: Garbadge Man
1992

Hole: Live at Club Lingerie (Hollywood, 1990)
1990

Hole: Live at The Lemon Grove (Exeter, 1991)
1991

Hole: Miss World
1994

Hole: Doll Parts
1994

Hole: Violet
1995

Antiheroine
2026

Doll Crafting with Dame Darcy & Courtney Love
1997

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
2007

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001

The View
1997

E! True Hollywood Story
1996

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992

Alan Carr: Chatty Man
2009

The Oscars
1953

Empire
2015

Behind the Music
1997

The Graham Norton Show
2007

Revenge
2011

Sons of Anarchy
2008

MTV Video Music Awards
1984

RuPaul's Drag Race
2009

The Russell Brand Show
2006

Comedy Central Roasts
2003

Keeping Up with the Kardashians
2007

Never Mind the Buzzcocks
2021

The Osbournes
2002

Elle Style Awards
1997

Elle Style Awards
1997

Late Show with David Letterman
1993

The Andy Warhol Diaries
2022