Kim Gordon

ActorDirectorSoundComposerProducer Apr 28 (age 72) Rochester, New York, USA 1959–2025 (66 year career)

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Biography

Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28, 1953) is an American musician, vocalist, artist, record producer, video director and actress. She is lead singer, bass and guitarist in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, and in Free Kitten with Julia Cafritz (of Pussy Galore). Gordon has collaborated with a number of musicians, including Ikue Mori, DJ Olive, William Winant, Lydia Lunch, Courtney Love, Alan Licht and Chris Corsano. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Known For

Film

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot

Corky

Film

I'm Not There

Carla Hendricks

Film

Last Days

Record Executive

Film

The Punk Singer

Self

Film

The Nightmare

Teacher

Film

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

Original Music Composer

Film

Demonlover

Original Music Composer

Film

Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Filmography

Acting (86)

Movies (75)

The Chronology of Water

as Photographer

Pavements

as Self (uncredited)

Sonic Youth: Live in 1991

2025

Bad Painter

2025

as Interviewer

7.0

FireAid Benefit Concert

2025

as Self

8.7

A Proposal for A Dance

2024

as Self

Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story

2024

12341 Branford St. Sun Valley

2024

as Self

Los Angeles June 6

2024

as Self

Picture Window

2024

as Kim Gordon

Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.

2021

as herself

7.8

Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation

2019

SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions

2019

as Self

Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond

2019

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot

2018

as Corky

6.7

Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution

2017

as Self

7.0

Ed Ruscha: Buildings and Words

as Self

The Nightmare

as Teacher

Girls in Bands at the BBC

2015

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

Une Danse Des Bouffons

as Maria Martins

The Punk Singer

as Self

I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney

2013

7.0

Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011

2011

Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival

2011

Rappin' With The Rickster

2010

as Self

2.0

Sonic Youth & The Black Keys: Live at Austin City Limits 2011

2010

From the Basement

2009

as Self - Sonic Youth

6.0

New York Rock at the BBC

2008

as Self - Sonic Youth

I'm Not There

as Carla Hendricks

Boarding Gate

as Kay

365 Day Project

as Self

Welcome to My Castle!

2007

as Self

Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East

2007

as Herself

Noise

as Self

Cut Shorts

Her Noise - The Making Of

2006

Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes

Last Days

as Record Executive

Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost

2004

5.8

(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale

2004

as Self

Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage

2003

as Performer

Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)

2003

5.0

Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 2002

2002

Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock

2001

as Self

Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000

2000

Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth

2000

as Self

Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 1998

1998

Free Tibet

1998

as Self - Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim

1998

Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996

1996

Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach

1995

as Self

The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special

as Self

X-Girl

as interviewer

Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love

1995

Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos

1994

as Self

6.0

Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!

1994

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.5

No Alternative Girls

1994

as Herself

7.0

Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa

1993

Changing Fashions

1993

Grunge Pedal

1993

1991: The Year Punk Broke

as Self

Notebook

Goo

as Self

Skeeno H.C. Rules

Weatherman '69

as Bernadine Dohrn

Lou Believers

1988

as Herself

Sonic Youth: 930 Club

1988

Put More Blood Into the Music

as Herself

Submit to Me

Sublapse Video Mag 1

Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis

1986

Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree

1985

Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985

10.0

Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996

Tibetan Freedom Concert

Television (11)

Everybody's Live with John Mulaney

2025

as Self - Musical Guest

Women Who Rock

as Self

Party Legends

Portlandia

as Kim Gordon

Gossip Girl

as Kim Gordon

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

as Self

Gilmore Girls

as Cool Mom Troubadour

7.9

Late Show with David Letterman

1993

as Self - Musical Guest

6.4

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

1993

as Self - Musical Guest

7.2

Saturday Night Live

1975

as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

7.0

The Grammys

1959

as Self

8.6

Crew (19)

Movies (19)

12341 Branford St. Sun Valley

2024

Director

Los Angeles June 6

2024

Director

Picture Window

2024

Director

Lights Out

Music

Massage the History

Music

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

2004

Original Music Composer

5.8

The Work of Director Spike Jonze

2003

Director

8.0

Me Myself and the Universe

2003

Music

3.0

Demonlover

2002

Original Music Composer

5.7

Things Behind the Sun

2001

Original Music Composer

6.0

Teenie Weenie Boppie

1997

Director

X-Girl

Executive Producer

Goo

Music

Goo

Writer

Made in U.S.A.

Original Music Composer

5.6

Making the Nature Scene

1985

Director

Rock My Religion

1984

Idea

Rock My Religion

1984

Music

Kiss

1963

Music

4.6