Courtney Love

Courtney Love's star rose as much for her outlandish public behavior and turbulent marriage to Nirvana's Kurt Cobain as for her brash alternative rock. Geffen Records released her band Hole's ironically titled and successful Live Through This exactly one week after Cobain's death.

Fast Facts

1. Birth name: Courtney Michelle Harrison
2. Born: July 9, 1964
3. Record label: Custard Records
4. Daughter: Frances Bean Cobain
5. Celebrity Skin, the follow-up album to Live Through This, reached No. 9 on the Billboard' charts

Courtney on Film

Love has received favorable reviews for a number of her film appearances, most notably The People vs. Larry Flynt for which she was nominated for a number of major critics' awards. She's also appeared in Man on the Moon with Jim Carrey, Feeling Minnesota with Keanu Reeves, and in Sid and Nancy, the story of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen.

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