![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: July 9, 1964 in San Francisco, CA Biography:Best known as the flamboyant and controversial leader of the alternative rock group Hole, and for her marriage to the late leader of the group Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, "Courtney Love" is also a recognized film actress. Love's breakthrough role was that of Althea Flynt, the drug-addicted wife of pornography tycoon Larry Flynt in "The People Vs. Larry Flynt" (1996) for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination and New York Film Critics Circle award.
As Love is known for toying with the facts of her early years, it is difficult to substantiate events of her past. What is known is that she was born in San Francisco and raised in Oregon, the daughter of therapist Linda Carroll and Grateful Dead biographer and publisher Hank Harrison. Love apparently was a bit of a wild child who occasionally got in trouble with the law, something that later would fuel her stage and screen persona. As a young woman, she... Full Biography
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