Courtney Love
Courtney Michelle Love (née Harrison; born July 9, 1964) is an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actress, and goddess. 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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Photos
Films (62)
Antiheroine
2026 · Self
Broken English
2026 · Self
James Blunt - One Brit Wonder
2023 · Self (archive footage)
I Hate Myself and I Want to Die
2023 · Self (archive footage)
Nos vemos en el baño
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Kalvøyafestivalen - 50 år siden første riff
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Arianne Phillips: Dressing the Part
2021 · Self
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020 · (archive footage)
Le tour d'écrou
2020 · Songs
J.T. LeRoy
2019 · Sasha
Tower of Song : Un hommage commémoratif à Leonard Cohen
2018 · Self - Performer
L7: Pretend We're Dead
2017 · Self
Jim et Andy
2017 · Self
A Midsummer's Nightmare
2017
Les frères meurtriers : L'affaire Menendez
2017 · Kitty Menendez
Franca: Chaos and Creation
2016 · Self
Author: The JT LeRoy Story
2016 · Herself
Cobain: Montage of Heck
2015 · Self
The Young Blood Chronicles
2014 · The Head Bitch In Charge
Hit So Hard
2012 · Self
Sunset Strip
2012 · Self
Bob and the Monster
2011 · Herself
The Dark Night of the Soul
2010
Welcome to My Castle!
2007 · Self
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
2007
The Return of Courtney Love
2006 · Self
Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson
2005 · Self
Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula
2005 · Caligula
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
2004 · Self
Mayor of the Sunset Strip
2003 · Self
Mauvais Piège
2002 · Cheryl
Last Party 2000
2001 · Self
Bounce: Behind The Velvet Rope
2001
Julie Johnson
2001 · Claire
Beat, une génération condamnée à l'enfer
2000 · Joan Vollmer Burroughs
L'homme sur la lune
1999 · Lynne Margulies
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
1999 · Narrator (voice)
Hole: The Electric Factory
1999
200 Cigarettes
1999 · Lucy
Hole: Big Day Out 1999
1999
The Righteous Babes
1998 · Self (archive footage)
Kurt & Courtney
1998 · Self
Inside the Golden Statue
1998 · Self
Doll Crafting with Dame Darcy & Courtney Love
1997
Larry Flynt
1996 · Althea Leasure
Feeling Minnesota
1996 · Rhonda the Waitress
Basquiat
1996 · Big Pink
Hole: MTV Unplugged
1995 · Lead Vocals, Guitar
Not Bad for a Girl
1995 · Self, Co-Producer
Hole: Live at The Metro (Chicago, 1994)
1995
Hole - Live Through This
1994
No Alternative Girls
1994 · Herself
1991: The Year Punk Broke
1992 · Self
Hole: Live at The Lemon Grove (Exeter, 1991)
1991 · Herself, Writer
Hole: Live at Club Lingerie (Hollywood, 1990)
1990 · Herself, Writer
Tapeheads
1988 · Norman's Spanker (uncredited)
Straight to Hell
1987 · Velma
Sid and Nancy
1986 · Gretchen
Club Vatican
1984
The Long Home
· Pearl
Weezer: Security Threat
Hole - Live, at The Astoria
Séries (24)
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
2021 · Self - Guest Team Captain
Empire
2015 · Elle Dallas
Vengeance
2011 · White Gold
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
2009 · Self
RuPaul: Carrera de drags
2009 · Self - Guest Judge
Les Sons of Anarchy
2008 · Ms. Harrison
L'incroyable Famille Kardashian
2007 · Self
El show de Graham Norton
2007 · Self
The Russell Brand Show
2006 · Self
Comedy Central Roasts
2003 · Self
The Osbournes
2002 · Self
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001 · Self - Guest
Storyville
1997
Elle Style Awards
1997 · Self, Self - Winner
Behind the Music
1997 · Self
La Vue
1997 · Self
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
TFI Friday
1996
Late Show with David Letterman
1993 · Self - Guest/Musical Guest
Later... with Jools Holland
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
The Word
1990
MTV Video Music Awards
1984 · Self
The Oscars
1953 · Self