Courtney Love
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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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 13.551 |
Birthday | 1964-07-09 |
Place of Birth | San Francisco, California, USA |
Also Known As | 考特妮·洛夫, |
1996
Basquiat
6.6/267
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.
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The People vs. Larry Flynt
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1999
Man on the Moon
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The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.
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2000
Beat
5/23
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2002
Trapped
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1996
Feeling Minnesota
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1987
Straight to Hell
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1998
Kurt & Courtney
6.018/114
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Sid and Nancy
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1999
200 Cigarettes
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2012
Hit So Hard
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2001
Julie Johnson
5.8/15
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Cobain: Montage of Heck
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2005
Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson
6.452/52
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2006
The Return of Courtney Love
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1992
1991: The Year Punk Broke
6.8/33
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1994
No Alternative Girls
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Bob and the Monster
6/6
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2014
The Young Blood Chronicles
9/4
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The Young Blood Chronicles
2005
Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula
6.1/24
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2021
The Long Home
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2016
Franca: Chaos and Creation
7.4/25
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Tapeheads
5.2/53
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2017
Menendez: Blood Brothers
6.1/7
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2003
Mayor of the Sunset Strip
6.9/27
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2012
Sunset Strip
7.3/28
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Sunset Strip
2010
The Dark Night of the Soul
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2017
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
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Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
2019
J.T. LeRoy
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2016
Author: The JT LeRoy Story
6.5/28
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2001
Bounce: Behind The Velvet Rope
5.2/4
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2018
Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen
10/3
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2004
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
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2017
A Midsummer's Nightmare
10/1
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2017
L7: Pretend We're Dead
6.9/12
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1995
Hole: MTV Unplugged
10/1
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2007
Welcome to My Castle!
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1999
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
7.7/3
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1998
The Righteous Babes
1/1
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1995
Not Bad for a Girl
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Assassination
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Meet Me in the Bathroom
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Club Vatican
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Kalvøyafestivalen - 50 år siden første riff
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1997
Doll Crafting with Dame Darcy and Courtney Love
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Let Dame Darcy and Courtney Love teach you all about making your own dolls in this four part series!!!
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2021
Arianne Phillips: Dressing the Part
10/1
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1998
Inside the Golden Statue
6.3/3
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1995
Hole - Live at The Metro (Chicago, 1994)
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