Foto Courtney Love

Courtney Love


Biografi

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.

Dikenal sebagai

Acting

Tanggal Lahir

09 July 1964 di San Francisco, California, USA

Filmografi

Trapped

Trapped

sebagai Cheryl

200 Cigarettes

200 Cigarettes

sebagai Lucy

Feeling Minnesota

Feeling Minnesota

sebagai Rhonda the Waitress

The Return of Courtney Love

The Return of Courtney Love

sebagai Self

L7: Pretend We're Dead

L7: Pretend We're Dead

sebagai Self

The People vs. Larry Flynt

The People vs. Larry Flynt

sebagai Althea Leasure

Man on the Moon

Man on the Moon

sebagai Lynne Margulies

Arianne Phillips: Dressing the Part

Arianne Phillips: Dressing the Part

sebagai Self

The Long Home

The Long Home

sebagai Pearl

Sunset Strip

Sunset Strip

sebagai Self

Beat

Beat

sebagai Joan Vollmer Burroughs

Kurt & Courtney

Kurt & Courtney

sebagai Self

Tapeheads

Tapeheads

sebagai Norman's Spanker (uncredited)

Hole: The Electric Factory

Hole: The Electric Factory

sebagai

Sid and Nancy

Sid and Nancy

sebagai Gretchen

James Blunt: One Brit Wonder

James Blunt: One Brit Wonder

sebagai Self (archive footage)

Cobain: Montage of Heck

Cobain: Montage of Heck

sebagai Self

J.T. LeRoy

J.T. LeRoy

sebagai Sasha