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Courtney Love
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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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Courtney Love arrives at the Elle Style Awards at Big Sky London on Feb. 9, 2009.
Courtney Love attends the premiere of "Barbershop" at ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood, Calif., on Aug....
Courtney Love and daughter Frances Bean Cobain attend the "American Idol" Season 4 Finale at the...
Courtney Love photographed in 2002
Courtney Love attends a New York Fashion Week after party at Lotus on Sept. 19, 2002.
Courtney Love attends the 46th Annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Feb. 8,...
After cabin crew reported she had abused them during a flight, Courtney Love gets taken away by...
News
Dec. 15, 2009, 3:55 AM EST
Kurt Cobain's daughter placed in guardianship with mother, sister of 'grunge' rocker
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