Courtney Love

Known for ActingBorn 1964-07-09 (age 62)San Francisco, California, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Arianne Phillips: Dressing the Part

Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen

A Midsummer's Nightmare

The Russell Brand Show

Hole: Live at The Metro (Chicago, 1994)

Hole: MTV Unplugged

Hole: Violet

Not Bad for a Girl

Sons of Anarchy

The Young Blood Chronicles

Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl

E! True Hollywood Story

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

Cobain: Montage of Heck

Revenge

MTV Video Music Awards

Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond

RuPaul's Drag Race

Franca: Chaos and Creation

Keeping Up with the Kardashians

No Alternative Girls

Sunset Strip

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

Empire

The Graham Norton Show

Behind the Music

Broken English

James Blunt: One Brit Wonder

Comedy Central Roasts

Man on the Moon

L7: Pretend We're Dead

(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale

Mayor of the Sunset Strip

The People vs. Larry Flynt

Author: The JT LeRoy Story

Last Party 2000

1991: The Year Punk Broke

Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson

Sid and Nancy

Basquiat

The Oscars

Inside the Golden Statue

Bob and the Monster

Late Show with David Letterman

Club Vatican

Trapped

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

The Osbournes