Courtney Love Brief Biography

Courtney Michelle Love (born Courtney Michelle Harrison; 9 July 1964) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, actress and artist. Love initially gained notoriety in the Los Angeles indie rock scene as vocalist and rhythm guitarist of alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989, later receiving international critical and commercial acclaim for their albums Live Through This (1994) and Celebrity Skin (1998). Love had a brief solo career and then re-formed Hole with new members in 2010, a decade after the original band had broken up, and released Nobody's Daughter (2010). Love also had an intermittent acting career, debuting in Alex Cox's Sid and Nancy (1986) and later receiving a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of Althea Flynt in Milo? Forman's The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996).

Love, who grew up primarily in Oregon, is the daughter of psychotherapist Linda Carroll, and writer and ex-Grateful Dead manager Hank Harrison. 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."

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