 - - - - - - - - - - - - -  NAME: Courtney Michelle Harrison Rodriguez Menely Moreland Love-Cobain (born Love Michelle Harrison). Goes by Courtney Love or sometimes Courtney Love-Cobain PLAYED: Vocals, guitar FORMED HOLE IN: 1989, with Eric LEFT IN: May 2002, when the band officially split up. BORN: 9:15 a.m, 9 July 1964 (or 1965), St Frances Memorial Hospital (?), San Francisco. SIGN: Cancer ELEMENT: Water EYES: Blue/green HAIR: Naturally dark brown, mostly bleached/dyed blonde. PARENTS: Linda Carol, new age therapist and father Hank Harrison, ex-Grateful Dead roadie, writer SIBLINGS: At least two half-sisters (Jaimee and Nicole) and one half-brother. FORMER BANDS: Babes In Toyland (bass), Faith No More (keyboard, singer), Sugar Baby Doll, Sugar Babylon, Pagan Babies. OTHER STUFF: She was raised in and has lived in Portland, Oregon, New Zealand, Ireland, Australia and Japan. Has been married twice: First to James Moreland of Leaving Trains (divorced in 1992(?)), and then to Nirvana-singer Kurt Cobain. Married Kurt Cobain on February 24, 1992 on Hawaii. Daughter: Frances Bean Cobain, born 18 August (about 10 days overdue), 1992, at 7:48 a.m. Previous jobs: stripper, sales operator, photographer, actress, at a club for gay people (?). At one point she was working as a stripper in Japan, but got deported for working without a license. She studied at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, but after one semester she dropped out and started working as a photographer. Got caught stealing a KISS T-shirt at the age of 12. Courtney, Kurt and Patty had a "fake" band (where Courtney and Patty pretended to be sisters) called Nighty Nite. Godfather: Phil Lesh, of The Grateful Dead. She has won three awards for her part as Althea Flynt in the movie "The People vs. Larry Flynt": the Chicago Film Critics Association Award, a Golden Satelite Award, and the New York Film Critics Circle Award. She was also nominated at the MTV Movie Awards (for Best Breakthrough Performance), and at the Golden Globe Awards (for Best Actress - Drama). Courtney had to lose weight for this part. Her diet (according to herself) was meat, tomatoes, tuna, egg whites, fruit jello and soya cheese. Other actresses that tried out for the role as Althea were Patricia Arquette, Mira Sorvino, Georgina Cates and Rachel Griffiths. It's said that Courtney wrote a letter to Rachel, apologizing. Courtney used to date Edward Norton (who played the lawyer, Alan Isaacman, in "The People vs. Larry Flynt"), but they broke up, but are still good friends. She's also been romantically linked to Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, Evan Dando of the Lemonheads, and Twiggy Ramirez of Marilyn Manson. She won the 1997 VH1 Fashion Awards for Best Personal Style: Female It's said that in all the movie's she's been in, she says a quote from one of her favorite movies, The Breakfast Club. Wether or not this is correct, I don't know. When she was born she was named Love Michelle Harrison, but when her parents got divorced, her mother changed her name to Courtney, supposedly after a friend she had while pregnant with Courtney. She started out as penpals with Jennifer Finch before forming Sugar Babydoll with her and Kat Bjelland. She is said to have helped to write Babes In Toyland's "Quiet Room" and "Fork Down Throat". It's also said that Babes In Toyland's song "Bruised Violet" is about Courtney. She's part Jewish, and part Irish. She's said she was up for a part in 'Last Exit To Brooklyn'. - - - - - - - - - - - - - |