Courtney Love

Biography of Courtney Love

Courtney Love was born on July 9, 1964 in San Francisco, United States.

She is the daughter of psychotherapist Linda Carroll Risi and Hank Harrison, editor. Her mother was the daughter of novelist Paula Fox and her father was unidentified, it was rumored that she could be Marlon Brando.

Her parents divorced in 1969 and her father's custody was withdrawn after her mother alleged that she had supplied him with LSD.

In 1970, she and her mother moved to the rural community of Marcola, Oregon, where they lived in a commune.

She was legally adopted by her stepfather, Frank Rodriguez, with whom her mother had two daughters and she adopted a boy who died in infancy of a heart defect when Courtney was ten years old. At nine, she was diagnosed with mild autism.

She studied in Eugene, Oregon, and in New Zealand. When she was 12 years old she returned to Oregon. During adolescence she moved to Japan, Taiwan and England, as well as traveling around the United States.

She made her film ut in the Milos Forman film The People vs. Larry Flynt, playing Althea Flynt, Flynt's wife. Thanks to this performance, she won the New York Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Boston Critics Award in the same category, and the Chicago Critics Award for Most Promising Actress. In addition, she was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Actress. She later participated in the feature film directed by Risa Bramon García, 200 Cigarettes.

In 1989, she founded the rock group, Hole. Her first album, Pretty On The Inside, was praised by critics.

Her next album, LiveThrough This, topped most critics' list of the best albums of 1994 and went platinum in April 1995.

Her third album, Celebrity Skin, came out in September 1998 and garnered three Grammy nominations.

As a solo artist, she released America's Sweetheart in 2004. In 2009, she reformed Hole with new members, they recorded a fourth album, Nobody's Daughter in 2010.

She had drug problems and in 2006, she was sentenced to six months of rehab.

In 2014, she was chosen to participate in television series such as: Sons of Anarchy, 101? Revenge, or Empire. She also participated in the James Franco film The Long Home.

In January 2016, she launched a clothing collection called "Love, Courtney".

She is a practitioner of different religions, including Catholicism and Episcopalianism, although she said that Buddhism was the most important path for her.

She was married on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii, on February 24, 1992, to late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. They were the parents of Frances Bean Cobain

She had previously married the transvestite Fallin James Moreland, lead singer of The Leaving Trains, in Las Vegas (1989).

Between 1996 and 1999, she was associated with actor Edward Norton, and later with fellow actor Steve Coogan.