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Courtney Michelle Love (born Courtney Michelle Harrison on July 9, 1964) is an American rock musician and Golden Globe-nominated actress. Love is best known as lead singer, songwriter and lyricist for the now-defunct alternative rock band Hole and for her two-year marriage to late Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain. Rolling Stone has called Love "the most controversial woman in the history of rock".

Life and career

KILLED KURT COBAIN, THAT FAT BITCH

Awards

Discography

Studio albums

• America's Sweetheart (2004)
• Nobody's Daughter (expected 2008)

Filmography

• Sid and Nancy (1986)
• Straight to Hell (1987)
• Tapeheads (1988)
• 1991: The Year Punk Broke (1992/Documentary)
• Tank Girl (1995/Executive Music Producer)
• Basquiat (1996)
• Feeling Minnesota (1996)
• The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
• Not Bad for a Girl (1996/Documentary/Co-Producer)
• Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997/Documentary)
• Kurt & Courtney (1998/Documentary)
• Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl (1999/Documentary/Narrator)
• 200 Cigarettes (1999)
• Man on the Moon (1999)
• Beat (2000)
• Bounce: Behind the Velvet Rope (2000/Documentary)
• Julie Johnson (2001)
• Last Party 2000 (2001/Documentary)
• Trapped (2002)
• Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003/Documentary)
• (This Is Known As) The Blues Scale (2004/Documentary)
• Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula (2005/Short Film)
• Lovelace (2008)

References

1. Although some sources give Love's birth name as "Love Michelle Harrison", her listing on the California Birth Index from the Center for Health Statistics gives a birth name of "Courtney Michelle Harrison". Between adoptions from several stepfathers, she has also gone by the names "Courtney Michelle Rodriguez" and "Courtney Michelle Menely". The name change to "Courtney Michelle Love" happened in early 1990s, in the beginning of her musical career and after the end of her first marriage (of which the legal records still feature the name "Courtney Michelle Menely"). According to the same statistics list above, the birth status of Courtney's 1992 born daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, already include "Love" as the mother's maiden surname.
2. http://music.guardian.co.uk/rock/story/0,,1969245,00.html

External links

• Official Courtney Love Site
• Official Courtney Love Myspace
• Courtney Love at IMDb
• Courtney Love Interview (2006) on her book Dirty Blonde by AOL Books
• Court TV Coverage

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• Living people
• People from San Francisco
• Portland State University alumni
• San Francisco Art Institute alumni
• Soka Gakkai
• Sympathy for the Record Industry
• Taper-friendly musicians