Patti Smith
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.
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Known For
Acting History
2025
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music as Self
2024Turn in the Wound
2024One-Hit Wonders at the BBC: Volume Two as Self (archive footage)
2023Ron Delsener Presents as Self
2023Chornobyl as Self
2022Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer as Self
2022Patti Smith: Electric Poet as Self (archive footage)
20212021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony as Self
2021Now as Self
2020Wim Wenders, Desperado as Self
2019Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal as Self
2019Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese as The Punk Poet
2019WBCN and the American Revolution as Self
2018Film catastrophe as Self
2018Horses: Patti Smith and Her Band as Herself
2018Kurt Everywhere
2018Spheres as Narrator (Voice)
2017Popular Voices at the BBC as Self (archive footage)
2017Ex Libris: The New York Public Library as Self
2017The Defiant Ones as Self
2017Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives as Self
2017Song to Song as Patti Smith
2016I Am La Scala as Self
2016The Book of Conrad
2016Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures as Self (voice) (uncredited)
2016U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris
2015U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015
2015Girls in Bands at the BBC as Self (archive footage)
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self -Guest
2014The 8th Floor as Self
2014Bruce Springsteen A MusiCares Tribute as Self
2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
2014Three Stones for Jean Genet
2013Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis' as Self
2013Sternstunde Musik as Self
2012West of Memphis as Self – WM3 Supporter
2012Patti Smith - Live at Montreux 2005 as Herself
2011Sleepless Nights Stories as Self
2010William S. Burroughs: A Man Within as Self
2010The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town as Self
2010Film Socialisme as La chanteuse
2009The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts as Self
2009Long for the City (Patti Smith in New York) as herself
2009Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB as Self
2009All Tomorrow's Parties as Self
2008The Passage Clock: For Walter Benjamin as Narrator
2008New York Rock at the BBC
2008One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur as Self
2008Patti Smith: Dream of Life as Self
2007365 Day Project as Self
2007NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell
2007You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson as Self
2007Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens as Self
2007Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe as Self
2006The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder: Punk & New Wave as Self
2005Rockpolitik as Self
2005The Colbert Report
2004The Culture Show as Self
2004Kulturplatz as Self
2003R.E.M.: In View 1988-2003 (The Best of R.E.M.)
2003The Big Empty as Traveler
2003Brian Wilson: On Tour as Self
2002What the Punk - An MVD Sampler
2002Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You as Self
2002Gero von Boehm begegnet... as Self
2001Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Cleo Alexander
2001Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock as Self
200125 Years of Punk as Self (archive footage)
2000Benjamin Smoke as Herself
2000Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration as Self
1999The Early Show as Self
1998Patti Smith at Anthology Film Archives Febr. 19, 1998 as Self
1998John Cale: An Exploration of His Life & Music as Self (archive footage)
1998The Rugrats Movie as Newborn Baby (singing voice)
1997The Best of Sessions at West 54th: Vol. 1 as Self
1997Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit as Self
1996New Adventures in Hi-Fi Stereophonic on Film as Self
1996Saturday Night Special
1995Dancing Barefoot as Self
1994NeXt as Self
1993Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Musical Guest
1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1986Women in Rock as Self (archive footage)
1984Burroughs: The Movie as Self
1984Rock My Religion
1980No. 18: Mahagonny as Self
1979Patti Smith Group: Rockpalast 1979 as Performer
1978Still Moving/Patti Smith as Herself
1977Patti Smith Live in Stockholm 1976 as Self
1976The Blank Generation as Self
1975Night Lunch as Self
1975Saturday Night Live as Self (uncredited)
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Musical Guest
1971West Side Stories
1971Robert Having His Nipple Pierced as Narrator (uncredited)
1970Chelsea Hotel as Self
1961The Mike Douglas Show as Self