- Born
- Birth nameCourtney Michelle Harrison
- Nickname
- CLover
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- The daughter of Grateful Dead devotee and first manager Hank Harrison and psychotherapist Linda Caroll, Courtney Love was born Courtney Michelle Harrison in San Francisco, California in 1964. Love spent her early years living in hippie communes in Oregon and at schools in Europe and New Zealand, under the care of her mother and other family members.
By age 16, Love became legally emancipated and traveled throughout Europe, living off of a small trust fund left behind by her grandmother. Love eventually returned to Portland, Oregon, still pursuing music, and then moved around to various locations in the United States before making her break into the industry.
As a musician, she played in early incarnations of Babes In Toyland and Faith No More, as well as acting in bit parts for some Alex Cox films. In 1989, she started her own band, Hole, and in 1992 married Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain, giving birth to their daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, that same year. After Cobain's suicide in 1994, and the release of Hole's second album "Live Through This", Love continued to thrill her fans and enrage her detractors with her on- and off-stage antics.
By 1998, Hole had released their third studio album, "Celebrity Skin", and Love had attracted cinematic notoriety for her performance in The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), which not only garnered her a Golden Globe nomination, but recognition as a serious performer.
Early into the millennium, Hole broke up, and Love took some supporting roles in films such as Trapped (2002), but her rocky past and propensity toward drug addiction eventually caught up with her, sending her through a whirlwind of numerous health and legal issues.
After unsuccessful stints in and out of drug rehabilitation centers, Love was ordered by the L.A. county court to three months in lock down rehab, which came to an end in 2006. Love soon after released a scrapbook-like diary recounting her life, titled "Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love", and continued writing music, testifying her sobriety to the press and public.
In 2009, after losing custody of daughter Frances Bean Cobain for unrelated reasons, Love re-formed Hole with an entirely new lineup, and soon after released the band's first album in ten years, titled "Nobody's Daughter".
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- SpousesKurt Cobain(February 24, 1992 - April 5, 1994) (his death, 1 child)James Moreland(February 14, 1989 - June 15, 1989) (divorced)
- Children
- ParentsLinda Caroll
- RelativesRonin Walker Cobain Hawk(Grandchild)
- Messy blonde hair
- Bright red lipstick
- Deep raw edged vocals
- Different colored blue and green contacts
- Hippie grunge style
- Was rejected from The Mickey Mouse Club at age 12 after reading a Sylvia Plath poem for her audition.
- Godmother of daughter Frances Bean Cobain is Drew Barrymore.
- The songs "Doll Parts", "Best Sunday Dress (1998 version)", "Dying", "Northern Star", "Malibu", "Playing Your Song", "Honey", "Pacific Coast Highway" are about Kurt Cobain, her late husband.
- 11 January 2005 - An LA court ruled she could regain custody of her daughter, Frances Bean Cobain. She lost custody to her mother-in-law in October 2003 as a result of drug charges.
- The Nirvana song "Heart-Shaped Box" is about her.
- I'm not a woman, I'm a force of nature.
- "I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me" --about Dave Grohl in a Howard Stern interview.
- "Cocaine is like really evil coffee." (What she told her daughter about drugs.)
- "You're no one in the rock industry unless you've feuded with me or slept with Winona Ryder.
- "Being famous is just like being in high school. But, I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed. And plenty of you are out there in the smoker shed too. When it comes to rock 'n' roll, it's just like high school" (From an interview in the August 2004 Seventeen magazine).
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