Courtney Michelle Love (born Courtney Michelle Harrison; July 9, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Love is the lead vocalist, lyricist, and rhythm guitarist for alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989, and is also an actress who moved from bit parts in Alex Cox films to significant and acclaimed roles in The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) and Man on the Moon (1999). Love was married to Kurt Cobain, frontman of the gr...
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Courtney Michelle Love (born Courtney Michelle Harrison; July 9, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Love is the lead vocalist, lyricist, and rhythm guitarist for alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989, and is also an actress who moved from bit parts in Alex Cox films to significant and acclaimed roles in The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) and Man on the Moon (1999). Love was married to Kurt Cobain, frontman of the grunge band Nirvana, with whom she has a daughter, Frances Bean Cobain. Throughout her career, Love's wild stage antics and subversive feminist attitude have polarized audiences and critics, with Rolling Stone once calling her "the most controversial woman in the history of rock."
Love was born in San Francisco, California, to Linda Carroll, a psychotherapist, and Hank Harrison, a publisher and brief road manager for The Grateful Dead. Love had a nomadic childhood, and as a teenager was sent to a youth correctional facility after being caught...
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