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Courtney Love 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 ...

is an American musician and

actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

who began her professional career in film in 1986 with a supporting role in

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's ''

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'' (1986); she had prior studied film with experimental director

George Kuchar George Kuchar (August 31, 1942 – September 6, 2011) was an American underground film director and video artist, known for his "low-fi" aesthetic. Early life and career Kuchar trained as a commercial artist at the School of Industrial Art, now k ...

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

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, Love also had intermittent roles in films, most notably receiving critical attention for her performance as

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in Miloš Forman's 1996 biopic ''

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'', 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. She later appeared in several independent films and short subjects as well as the thriller '' Trapped'' (2002) alongside Charlize Theron and

Kevin Bacon Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American actor. His films include the musical-drama film '' Footloose'' (1984), the controversial historical conspiracy legal thriller '' JFK'' (1991), the legal drama '' A Few Good Men'' (1992), t ...

, 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. Subsequent television work included appearances on the ABC-TV nighttime soap '' Revenge'' as well as the hit

Lee Daniels Lee Daniels (born December 24, 1959) is an American film and television producer, director and screenwriter. His first producer credit was ''Monster's Ball'' (2001), for which Halle Berry won the Academy Award for Best Actress, making Daniels ...

drama ''

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''. In 2018, Love made a supporting appearance in director Justin Kelly's '' JT 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); ''

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'' (1995), which focused on women in alternative music; and '' Hit So Hard'' (2011), which documented the life of Love's bandmate, drummer

Patty Schemel Patricia Theresa Schemel (born April 24, 1967) is an American drummer and musician who rose to prominence as the drummer of alternative rock band Hole from 1992 until 1998. Born in Los Angeles, Schemel was raised in rural Marysville, Washington, ...

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