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.
Basquiat
(Big Pink)
The People vs. Larry Flynt
(Althea Leasure)
Beat
(Joan Vollmer Burroughs)
Man on the Moon
(Lynne Margulies)
Trapped
(Cheryl Hickey)
Feeling Minnesota
(Rhonda the Waitress)
Straight to Hell
(Velma)
Kurt & Courtney
(Self)
Sid and Nancy
(Gretchen)
200 Cigarettes
(Lucy)
The Righteous Babes
(Self (archive footage))
Not Bad for a Girl
(Self)
Meet Me in the Bathroom
(Self (archive footage))
Hit So Hard
(Self)
Club Vatican
Julie Johnson
(Claire)
Kalvøyafestivalen - 50 år siden første riff
(Self (archive footage))
Arianne Phillips: Dressing the Part
(Self)
Inside the Golden Statue
(Self)
Cobain: Montage of Heck
(Self)
Hole - Live at The Metro (Chicago, 1994)
1991: The Year Punk Broke
(Self)
Bob and the Monster
(Herself)
The Young Blood Chronicles
(The Head Bitch In Charge)
Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula
(Caligula)
No Alternative Girls
(Herself)
The Return of Courtney Love
(Self)
Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson
(Self)
The Long Home
(Pearl)
Franca: Chaos and Creation
(Self)
Tapeheads
(Norman's Spanker (uncredited))
Menendez: Blood Brothers
(Kitty Menendez)
Mayor of the Sunset Strip
(Self)
Sunset Strip
(Self)
The Dark Night of the Soul
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
(Self)
J.T. LeRoy
(Sasha)
Author: The JT LeRoy Story
(Herself)
Bounce: Behind The Velvet Rope
Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen
(Self - Performer)
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
(Self)
A Midsummer's Nightmare
L7: Pretend We're Dead
(Self)
Hole: MTV Unplugged
(Lead Vocals, Guitar)
Welcome to My Castle!
(Self)
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
(Narrator (voice))
Especial Courtney Love PT1: A Infância e a Adolescência da Cantora Autista
(Courtney Love)
Last Party 2000
(Self)
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
(Self - Guest)
The View
(Self)
E! True Hollywood Story
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
(Self)
The Oscars
(Self)
Empire
(Elle Dallas)
Behind the Music
(Self)
The Graham Norton Show
(Self)
Revenge
(White Gold)
Sons of Anarchy
(Ms. Harrison)
MTV Video Music Awards
(Self)
Saturday Night Live
(Self - Musical Guest)
RuPaul's Drag Race
(Self - Judge)
The Russell Brand Show
(Self)
Comedy Central Roasts
(Self)
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
(Self)
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
(Self - Guest Team Captain)