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Courtney Love

Courtney Love

Sound · b. 1964 · San Francisco, California, USA

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Courtney Love, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. (the goddess part wasnt from wikipedia im sorry lolol, follow me on letterboxd @courtneyluvvver)

Movies22

  • Movie7.2

    Man on the Moon

    1999 · 2K votes

  • Movie7.0

    The People vs. Larry Flynt

    1996 · 1.3K votes

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    Sid and Nancy

    1986 · 589 votes

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    Trapped

    2002 · 632 votes

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    200 Cigarettes

    1999 · 184 votes

  • Movie7.6

    Cobain: Montage of Heck

    2015 · 763 votes

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    Feeling Minnesota

    1996 · 185 votes

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    Basquiat

    1996 · 324 votes

  • Movie5.2

    Beat

    2000 · 32 votes

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    J.T. LeRoy

    2019 · 101 votes

  • Movie9.0

    Not Bad for a Girl

    1995 · 1 votes

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    Tapeheads

    1988 · 64 votes

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    Broken English

    2026 · 5 votes

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  • Movie5.5

    Straight to Hell

    1987 · 48 votes

Series21

  • TV6.4
  • TV4.3

    The View

    1997 · 113 votes

  • TV7.2

    The Graham Norton Show

    2007 · 290 votes

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    Sons of Anarchy

    2008 · 3.4K votes

  • TV7.5

    RuPaul's Drag Race

    2009 · 292 votes

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  • TV7.1

    Empire

    2015 · 763 votes

  • TV7.3

    Behind the Music

    1997 · 17 votes

  • TV7.6

    Revenge

    2011 · 856 votes

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    MTV Video Music Awards

    1984 · 24 votes

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    The Oscars

    1953 · 84 votes

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    TFI Friday

    1996 · 10 votes

  • TV7.2

    Comedy Central Roasts

    2003 · 5 votes

  • TV5.2

    Alan Carr: Chatty Man

    2009 · 16 votes

  • TV6.0

    The Word

    1990 · 6 votes

  • TV6.1

    The Osbournes

    2002 · 59 votes

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  • TV8.1

    E! True Hollywood Story

    1996 · 81 votes

  • TV10.0

    The Russell Brand Show

    2006 · 1 votes