Patti Smith

Actor · Born December 30, 1946 · 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.

Acted in 26

2020s

2026
Oliviero Toscani. Chi mi ama mi segua
Movie
2024
Turn in the Wound
Movie

2010s

2019
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
The Punk Poet
80
2018
Kurt Everywhere
Movie
2017
Song to Song
Patti Smith
53
2016
The Book of Conrad
Movie
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris
Movie
2015
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015
Movie
2014
Station to Station
Movie
Three Stones for Jean Genet
Movie
2013
Lou Reed - Remembered
Movie
Vivre avec Camus
Patti Smith
2010
Film Socialisme
La chanteuse

2000s

2008
New York Rock at the BBC
Movie
2007
NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell
Movie
2005
The Colbert Report
TV · 11 Seasons · Documentary · Comedy
80
2003
R.E.M.: In View 1988-2003 (The Best of R.E.M.)
Movie
The Big Empty
Traveler
62
2002
What the Punk - An MVD Sampler
Movie
2001
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Cleo Alexander · 1 episode
76

1990s

1980s

1984
Rock My Religion
Movie

1970s

1971
West Side Stories
Movie

No release date

The Song of Hiawatha
Movie

Produced 4

2020s

2026
Little, Big, and Far
Executive Producer
2023
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
Executive Producer
76

2010s

2015
Counting
Executive Producer
2012
Museum Hours
Executive Producer

Sound 3

2020s

2024
Turn in the Wound
Original Music Composer

2010s

2014
Noah
Songs
63

2000s

2000
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Songs
76

Wrote 2

2010s

2014
Three Stones for Jean Genet
Screenplay

2000s

2009
Long for the City (Patti Smith in New York)
Screenplay

Appearances73

2020s

2026
Portrait of an Artist: Stephen Curry
Self
Tribeca 25
Self
Nova '78
Self (archive footage)
2025
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Self (archive footage)
85
2024
Go to Izzy!
Herself
One-Hit Wonders at the BBC: Volume Two
Self (archive footage)
2023
Ron Delsener Presents
Self
Chornobyl
Self
2022
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Self
77
Patti Smith: Electric Poet
Self (archive footage)
2021
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Self
Now
Self
2020
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Self

2010s

2019
Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal
Self
WBCN and the American Revolution
Self
2018
Film catastrophe
Self
Horses: Patti Smith and Her Band
Herself
Spheres
Narrator (Voice)
2017
Popular Voices at the BBC
Self (archive footage) · 3 episodes
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
Self
The Defiant Ones
Self · 2 episodes
83
Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives
Self
2016
I Am La Scala
Self
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
Self (voice) (uncredited)
79
2015
Girls in Bands at the BBC
Self (archive footage)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self -Guest/Musical Guest · 1 episode
69
2014
The 8th Floor
Self
Bruce Springsteen A MusiCares Tribute
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest · 3 episodes
67
2013
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
Self
2012
West of Memphis
Self – WM3 Supporter
Patti Smith - Live at Montreux 2005
Herself
2011
Sleepless Nights Stories
Self
2010
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Self
The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town
Self