Courtney Love (born 1964) is an American singer and actress. Combining uninhibited live performances with confrontational lyrics, she was prolific in the
punk and
grunge scenes of the 1990s as the frontwoman of the alternative rock band
Hole, which she formed in 1989. She was married to
Kurt Cobain, frontman for
Nirvana, until his suicide in 1994. Hole's second release,
Live Through This (1994), achieved critical accolades and multi-
platinum sales. In 1995, Love earned a
Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance in
The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996). Hole's third album,
Celebrity Skin (1998), was nominated for multiple
Grammy Awards. After roles in the big-budget pictures
Man on the Moon (1999) and
Trapped (2002), she released her first solo album,
America's Sweetheart (2004). She was sentenced to a rehabilitation facility in 2005 on drug charges. She returned to the music industry with
Nobody's Daughter (2010), a Hole album, but without any members of the original lineup. In 2014 and 2015, she released two solo singles and returned to acting in the network series
Empire and
Sons of Anarchy. (
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