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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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Films Featuring Courtney Love

Basquiat

19966.6

The People vs. Larry Flynt

19967.0

Beat

20005.2

Man on the Moon

19997.2

Trapped

20026.2

Feeling Minnesota

19965.4

Straight to Hell

19875.5

Kurt & Courtney

19986.0

Sid and Nancy

19866.7

200 Cigarettes

19995.8

The Righteous Babes

19983.3

Not Bad for a Girl

19959.0

Meet Me in the Bathroom

20225.4

Hit So Hard

20125.0

Club Vatican

19846.5

Julie Johnson

20015.5

Kalvøyafestivalen - 50 år siden første riff

2021

Arianne Phillips: Dressing the Part

202110.0

Inside the Golden Statue

19986.5

Cobain: Montage of Heck

20157.6

Hole: Live at The Metro (Chicago, 1994)

199510.0

1991: The Year Punk Broke

19926.8

Bob and the Monster

20116.3

The Young Blood Chronicles

20148.3

Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula

20055.8

No Alternative Girls

No Alternative Girls

19947.5

The Return of Courtney Love

2006

Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson

20056.6

The Long Home

The Long Home

Franca: Chaos and Creation

20167.4

Tapeheads

19885.4

Menendez: Blood Brothers

20175.1

Mayor of the Sunset Strip

20036.9

Sunset Strip

20127.3

The Dark Night of the Soul

2010

Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond

20177.5

J.T. LeRoy

20195.5

Author: The JT LeRoy Story

20166.6

Bounce: Behind The Velvet Rope

20015.6

Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen

201810.0

(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale

20047.0

A Midsummer's Nightmare

201710.0

L7: Pretend We're Dead

20177.0

Hole: MTV Unplugged

199510.0

Welcome to My Castle!

2007

Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl

19998.3

Last Party 2000

20016.8

James Blunt: One Brit Wonder

20237.0

Hole - Live Through This

1994

I Hate Myself and I Want to Die

2023

The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault

2020

Hole: The Electric Factory

1999

Broken English

20267.6

Hole: Garbadge Man

1992

Hole: Live at Club Lingerie (Hollywood, 1990)

1990

Hole: Live at The Lemon Grove (Exeter, 1991)

1991

Hole: Miss World

1994

Hole: Doll Parts

1994

Hole: Violet

199510.0

Antiheroine

2026

Doll Crafting with Dame Darcy & Courtney Love

1997

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

20077.3

Weezer: Security Threat

Weezer: Security Threat

Hole - Live, at The Astoria

Hole - Live, at The Astoria

Hole - Live, at The Astoria