Lydia Lunch
Biography
Lydia Lunch is an American singer, poet, writer, actress and self-empowerment speaker, whose career was spawned by the New York no wave scene. Her work typically features provocative and confrontational noise music delivery, and has maintained an anti-commercial ethic, operating independently of major labels and distributors.
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Known For
Acting History
2020
70 Years of Youth Revolt as Self (archive footage)
2020My Lover The Killer
2019Spit and Ashes
2019Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over as Self
2017L7: Pretend We're Dead as Self
2016The Ripple Effect as Self
2014The Circular Ruins as Night (voice)
2014Kill Us All
2012Wild Thing as Self
2012Bye Bye Blondie as La chanteuse
2012The Hardcore Collection as (archive footage)
2012Road Rant: A Week on the Road with Lydia Lunch as Self
2011Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard as Self
2011Blank City as Self
2010Fake Orgasm
2010Flood Stains as Saltmaster
2010Godkiller: Walk Among Us as Bub (voice)
2009Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism as Self - Interviewee
2009No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York as Self
2009NYC Foetus as Herself
2009For the End of Time
2008Death of the Reel as Narrator
2008Lydia Lunch: Video Hysterie: 1978 - 2006 as Herself
2007Llik Your Idols as Herself
2006Her Noise - The Making Of
2006Kill Your Idols: More. as Herself
2005American Fame Pt. 2: Forgetting Jonathan Brandis as Narrator
2004The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things as Social Worker #2
2004Kill Your Idols as Self
2002D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist as Herself - Interviewee
2001Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock as Self
1997Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York
1997Lunch on Kern as Herself
1996Visiting Desire as Sitter
1996Baby Trouble Hole as Performer
1994Lydia Lunch: Malicious Intent
1994Die Haut - Sweat as Self
1993No Age New York as Herself
1991Thanatopsis as Herself
1990Kiss Napoleon Goodbye as Hedda
1989The Gun Is Loaded as Herself
1989Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets as Self
1988Put More Blood Into the Music as Herself
1988Mondo New York as Prologue
1987Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread
1987Submit to Me Now
1987Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends as Self
1986Fingered
1986Barbecue Death Squad From Hell as Herself
1986Submit to Me
1984School of Shame
1984The Right Side of My Brain as Narrator
1983The Wild World of Lydia Lunch as Herself
1983Like Dawn to Dust
1982Vortex as Angel Powers
1982DANCE OF THE DEAD CHILDREN
1981Subway Riders
1980Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller
1980The Offenders
1979Black Box as Torturer
1979No New York Festival - Berlin as Self
1979Beauty Becomes the Beast
1979Alien Portrait as Self
1978Rome '78 as Empress
1978Punking Out as Herself
1978She Had Her Gun All Ready
1978Guerillere Talks as Herself