Person
Patti Smith
Acting · Born 1946-12-30 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography
Patricia Lee Smith is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and poet who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called the "punk poet laureate," Smith fused rock and poetry in her work.
Known for
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self -Guest/Musical Guest
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Cleo Alexander
The Colbert Report
2005
Saturday Night Live
Self (uncredited)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Musical Guest
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Songs
Kulturplatz
Self
Filmography
- 2026Little, Big, and FarExecutive Producer
- 2025Nova '78Self (archive footage)
- 2025Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL MusicSelf (archive footage)
- 2024Go to Izzy!Herself
- 2024Turn in the Wound
- 2024One-Hit Wonders at the BBC: Volume TwoSelf (archive footage)
- 2023Joan Baez: I Am a NoiseExecutive Producer
- 2023Ron Delsener PresentsSelf
- 2023ChornobylSelf
- 2022Werner Herzog: Radical DreamerSelf
- 2022Patti Smith: Electric PoetSelf (archive footage)
- 20212021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction CeremonySelf
- 2021NowSelf
- 2020Wim Wenders, DesperadoSelf
- 2019Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll AnimalSelf
- 2019Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin ScorseseThe Punk Poet
- 2019WBCN and the American RevolutionSelf
- 2018Film catastropheSelf
- 2018Horses: Patti Smith and Her BandHerself
- 2018Kurt Everywhere
- 2018SpheresNarrator (Voice)
- 2017Popular Voices at the BBCSelf (archive footage)
- 2017Ex Libris: The New York Public LibrarySelf
- 2017The Defiant OnesSelf
- 2017Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our LivesSelf
- 2017Song to SongPatti Smith
- 2016I Am La ScalaSelf
- 2016The Book of Conrad
- 2016Mapplethorpe: Look at the PicturesSelf (voice) (uncredited)
- 2016U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris
- 2015U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015
- 2015Girls in Bands at the BBCSelf (archive footage)
- 2015The Late Show with Stephen ColbertSelf -Guest/Musical Guest
- 2015CountingExecutive Producer
- 2014Station to Station
- 2014The 8th FloorSelf
- 2014Bruce Springsteen A MusiCares TributeSelf
- 2014NoahSongs
- 2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonSelf
- 2014Three Stones for Jean Genet
- 2013Lou Reed - Remembered
- 2013Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'Self
- 2013Sternstunde MusikSelf
- 2012West of MemphisSelf – WM3 Supporter
- 2012Patti Smith - Live at Montreux 2005Herself
- 2012Museum HoursExecutive Producer
- 2011Sleepless Nights StoriesSelf
- 2010William S. Burroughs: A Man WithinSelf
- 2010The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of TownSelf
- 2010Film SocialismeLa chanteuse
- 2009The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ConcertsSelf
- 2009Long for the City (Patti Smith in New York)herself
- 2009Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGBSelf
- 2009All Tomorrow's PartiesSelf
- 2008The Passage Clock: For Walter BenjaminNarrator
- 2008New York Rock at the BBC
- 2008One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big SurSelf
- 2008Patti Smith: Dream of LifeSelf
- 2007365 Day ProjectSelf
- 2007NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell
- 2007You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky EricksonSelf
- 2007Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a LensSelf
- 2007Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert MapplethorpeSelf
- 2006The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder: Punk & New WaveSelf
- 2005RockpolitikSelf
- 2005The Colbert Report
- 2004The Culture ShowSelf
- 2004KulturplatzSelf
- 2003R.E.M.: In View 1988-2003 (The Best of R.E.M.)
- 2003The Big EmptyTraveler
- 2003Brian Wilson: On TourSelf
- 2002What the Punk - An MVD Sampler
- 2002Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants YouSelf
- 2002Gero von Boehm begegnet...Self
- 2001Law & Order: Criminal IntentCleo Alexander
- 2001Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard RockSelf
- 200125 Years of PunkSelf (archive footage)
- 2000Aqua Teen Hunger ForceSongs
- 2000Benjamin SmokeHerself
- 2000Arista Records' 25th Anniversary CelebrationSelf
- 1999The Early ShowSelf
- 1998Patti Smith at Anthology Film Archives Febr. 19, 1998Self
- 1998John Cale: An Exploration of His Life & MusicSelf (archive footage)
- 1998The Rugrats MovieNewborn Baby (singing voice)
- 1997The Best of Sessions at West 54th: Vol. 1Self
- 1997Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a SpiritSelf
- 1996New Adventures in Hi-Fi Stereophonic on FilmSelf
- 1996Saturday Night Special
- 1995Dancing BarefootSelf
- 1994NeXtSelf
- 1993Late Night with Conan O'BrienSelf - Musical Guest
- 1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
- 1986Women in RockSelf (archive footage)
- 1984Burroughs: The MovieSelf
- 1984Rock My Religion
- 1980No. 18: MahagonnySelf
- 1978Still Moving/Patti SmithHerself
- 1977Patti Smith Live in Stockholm 1976Self
- 1976The Blank GenerationSelf
- 1975Night LunchSelf
- 1975Saturday Night LiveSelf (uncredited)
- 1971West Side Stories
- 1971Robert Having His Nipple PiercedNarrator (uncredited)
- 1970Chelsea HotelSelf
- 1961The Mike Douglas ShowSelf
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