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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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Filmography
all 66
Movies 48
self 37
TV Shows 18
Meet Me in the Bathroom (2022)
Kalvøyafestivalen - 50 år siden første riff (2021)
Arianne Phillips: Dressing the Part (2021)
The Long Home (2021)
J.T. LeRoy (2019)
Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen (2018)
L7: Pretend We're Dead (2017)
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (2017)
A Midsummer's Nightmare (2017)
A Midsummer's Nightmare (2017)
Menendez: Blood Brothers (2017)
Franca: Chaos and Creation (2016)
Author: The JT LeRoy Story (2016)
Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015)
Empire (2015)
The Young Blood Chronicles (2014)
Hit So Hard (2012)
Sunset Strip (2012)
Bob and the Monster (2011)
Revenge (2011)
The Dark Night of the Soul (2010)
Alan Carr: Chatty Man (2009)
RuPaul's Drag Race (2009)
Sons of Anarchy (2008)
Welcome to My Castle! (2007)
Keeping Up with the Kardashians (2007)
The Graham Norton Show (2007)
The Russell Brand Show (2006)
The Return of Courtney Love (2006)
Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson (2005)
Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula (2005)
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale (2004)
One Life (2003)
Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003)
Trapped (2002)
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (2001)
Bounce: Behind The Velvet Rope (2001)
Julie Johnson (2001)
Beat (2000)
Man on the Moon (1999)
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl (1999)
200 Cigarettes (1999)
The Righteous Babes (1998)
Kurt & Courtney (1998)
Inside the Golden Statue (1998)
Behind the Music (1997)
The View (1997)
Doll Crafting with Dame Darcy and Courtney Love (1997)
The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
Feeling Minnesota (1996)
E! True Hollywood Story (1996)
Basquiat (1996)
Hole Unplugged (1995)
Not Bad for a Girl (1995)
Hole - Live at The Metro (Chicago, 1994) (1995)
No Alternative Girls (1994)
1991: The Year Punk Broke (1992)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)
Tapeheads (1988)
Straight to Hell (1987)
Sid and Nancy (1986)
MTV Video Music Awards (1984)
Club Vatican (1984)
Saturday Night Live (1975)
The Oscars (1953)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1964-07-09
Deathday2022-06-20 (57 years old)
Birth NameCourtney Michelle Harrison
Birth PlaceSan Francisco, United States
Height
RelationshipsKurt Cobain (1991-01-01 - 1994-04-05), James Moreland (1989-01-01 - 1989-01-01)
ChildrenFrances Bean Cobain
FatherHank Harrison
MotherLinda Carroll
RelativesElsie Fox, Paul Hervey Fox, Paula Fox
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
ResidencesLos Angeles, United States of America
Also Known As考特妮·洛夫
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