Love attending an event in 2014.
Courtney Love is an American musician and actress who began her professional career in film in 1986 with a supporting role in Alex Cox's Sid and Nancy (1986); she had prior studied film with experimental director George Kuchar at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1984, and appeared in one of Kuchar's short films. After pursuing music and having a successful career as the frontwoman of alternative rock band Hole, Love also had intermittent roles in films, most notably receiving critical attention for her performance as Althea Flynt in Miloš Forman's 1996 biopic The People vs. Larry Flynt, which earned her a Golden Globe Nomination for Best Actress, as well as awards from the Boston, Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles film critics associations. Love later appeared among an ensemble cast in 200 Cigarettes (1998), as well as in a leading role in Man on the Moon (1999) alongside Jim Carrey, for which she received critical recognition.[1] She later appeared in several independent films and short subjects as well as the thriller Trapped (2002) alongside Charlize Theron and Kevin Bacon, and Julie Johnson (2001), for which she received an award for Best Actress at Los Angeles' gay and lesbian Outfest film festival.
In 2014, Love joined the cast of the FX series Sons of Anarchy for the show's seventh and final season in a recurring role; this marked Love's debut role in a television series.[2] Subsequent television work included appearances on the ABC-TV nighttime soap Revenge as well as the hit Lee Daniels drama Empire. Love's acting renaissance is set to continue in 2018, with roles in the James Franco-helmed indie feature The Long Home as well as Justin Kelly's upcoming biopic on J.T. Leroy.
Love has also appeared in a multitude of documentary films as both an interviewee as well as in archival and live footage, including the Sonic Youth documentary subject 1991: The Year Punk Broke (1992); Not Bad for a Girl (1995), which focused on women in alternative music; and Hit So Hard (2011), which documented the life of Love's bandmate, drummer Patty Schemel.
Films
Key
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Denotes films that have not yet been released |
Year |
Title |
Role |
Director |
Notes |
Budget (USD) |
Box office (USD)[lower-roman 1] |
Ref. |
1984 | Club Vatican | Girl | George Kuchar | Short film | Unknown | N/A | [4] |
1986 | Sid and Nancy | Gretchen | Alex Cox | | $4,000,000 | $2,826,523 | |
1987 | Straight to Hell | Velma | | $1,000,000 | $210,200 | |
1988 | Tapeheads | Norman's Spanker | Bill Fishman | Uncredited | $10,000,000 | $343,786 | |
1996 | Basquiat | Big Pink | Julian Schnabel | | $3,300,000 | $3,011,195 | |
Feeling Minnesota | Rhonda | Steven Baigelman | | Unknown | $3,124,440 | |
The People vs. Larry Flynt | Althea Leasure Flynt | Miloš Forman | | $35,000,000 | $20,300,385 | |
1999 | 200 Cigarettes | Lucy | Risa Bramon Garcia | | $6,000,000 | $6,852,450 | |
Man on the Moon | Lynne Margulies | Miloš Forman | | $82,000,000 | $47,434,430 | |
2000 | Beat | Joan Vollmer Burroughs | Gary Walkow | | Unknown | N/A | |
2001 | Julie Johnson | Claire | Bob Gosse | | Unknown | N/A | [7] |
2002 | Trapped | Cheryl | Luis Mandoki | | $30,000,000 | $13,414,416 | |
2005 | Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula | Caligula | Francesco Vezzoli | Short film | Unknown | N/A | [8] |
2011 | Courtney In Wonderland | Herself | Jason Bell | Short film | Unknown | N/A | [9] |
2018 | Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy | TBA | Justin Kelly | | Unknown | N/A | [10] |
2018 | The Long Home | Pearl | James Franco | | Unknown | N/A | [11] |
References
- ↑ Rathe, Adam (November 11, 2013). "Courtney Love in 'Man on the Moon'". Backstage.com. Standing Ovation. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
- 1 2 Johns, Nikara (July 8, 2014). "Courtney Love Joins 'Sons of Anarchy' for Final Season". Variety. Archived from the original on October 10, 2016. Retrieved July 9, 2014.
- ↑ Box office data per Box Office Mojo:
- ↑ Krahn, Angelina (April 8, 2010). "Corruption of the damned: A conversation with George Kuchar". A.V. Club. Archived from the original on November 5, 2013. Retrieved October 31, 2013.
Courtney Love and Devendra Banhart appeared in Kuchar's class pictures before they were famous.
- ↑ Kowalski, Eileen (July 23, 2001). "Outfest fetes 'G-d,' 'L.I.E.'". Variety. Archived from the original on February 2, 2016. Retrieved January 22, 2016.
- ↑ Yablonsky, Linda (February 26, 2006). "'Caligula' Gives a Toga Party (but No One's Really Invited)". The New York Times. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
- ↑ Bell, Jason; Goñi, Ramón. "VANITY FAIR - Courtney in Wonderland". Retrieved April 2, 2018 – via Vimeo.
- ↑ D'Nuka, Amanda (August 1, 2017). "Kelvin Harrison Jr., Courtney Love & James Jagger Board 'JT' Biopic". Deadline. Retrieved October 4, 2017.
- ↑ Maas, Jennifer (May 4, 2015). "Casting Net: Courtney Love, Timothy Hutton, Giancarlo Esposito join James Franco's The Long Home". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
- ↑ Chung, Jen (August 11, 2003). "Courtney Love Trainwrecks it on The Osbournes". Gothamist. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
- ↑ Sanneh, Kelefa (March 20, 2004). "ROCK REVIEW; Love Lives Through This, Rasping 'Take Care of Me'". The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 10, 2017.
- ↑ O'Connell, Michael (October 23, 2014). "Courtney Love Joins Fox's 'Empire'". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on February 1, 2017. Retrieved October 31, 2014.
- ↑ Bricker, Tierney (March 11, 2015). "Courtney Love's TV Takeover Continues on Revenge and You Won't Believe Who She's Playing". E!. Retrieved January 21, 2016.
- ↑ Wagmeister, Elizabeth (February 1, 2017). "Lifetime Orders Menendez Brothers TV Movie Starring Courtney Love". Variety. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
- ↑ Petski, Denise (November 3, 2016). "'A Midsummer's Nightmare': Courtney Love Cast in Lifetime's Shakespearean Pilot". Deadline. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
- ↑ Daw, Stephen (April 2, 2018). "First Look: See Courtney Love Sashay Her Way to the Judges Panel on 'RuPaul's Drag Race'". Billboard. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
- ↑ Hyden, Steve (September 14, 2011). "1991: The Year that Punk Broke". The A.V. Club. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
- ↑ Apramian, Lisa Rose (dir.) (1995). Not Bad for a Girl (VHS). Quantum Productions.
- ↑ "Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's Cast". TV Guide. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
- ↑ Kaufman, Gil (February 27, 1998). "Director Misfires with 'Kurt and Courtney' Documentary". MTV. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
- ↑ Fries, Lisa (June 14, 1999). "Clara Bow: Disovering the It Girl". Variety. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
- ↑ Cantor, Steve (dir.) (2000). Bounce: Behind the Velvet Rope (DVD). Stick Figure Productions.
- ↑ Emina, Peter (dir.) (2001). Eminem: Behind the Mask (DVD). Chrome Dreams Media.
- ↑ "Love Joins the 'Last Party'". NME. August 31, 2000. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
- ↑ Ebert, Roger (April 23, 2004). "Mayor of the Sunset Strip". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
- ↑ Love, Courtney (September 26, 2006). The Return of Courtney Love (Documentary). Los Angeles: Channel 4.
- ↑ Patterson, John (November 9, 2012). "Patty Schemel's story is depressingly familiar. So what? It's a great tale". The Guardian. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
- ↑ DeFore, John (March 15, 2011). "Bob and the Monster: Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
- ↑ "'Sunset Strip' Slash, Johnny Depp star in new rock doc". Rolling Stone. May 13, 2011. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
- ↑ Saul, Heather (April 17, 2015). "Cobain: Montage of Heck: Courtney Love says Kurt Cobain documentary brought her and daughter Frances Bean Cobain closer". The Independent. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
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