Kim Gordon

Personal Info

Birthday

April 28, 1953

(72 years old)

Place of Birth

Rochester, New York, USA

Also Known As

Sonic Youth

Kim Gordon

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

Gilmore Girls

Gossip Girl

Portlandia

I'm Not There

Boarding Gate

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

Last Days

Bad Painter

Filmography

2025
Pavements
as Self (uncredited)
Bad Painter
as Interviewer
FireAid Benefit Concert
as Self
2024
Picture Window
as Kim Gordon
12341 Branford St. Sun Valley
as Self
A Proposal for A Dance
as Self
Los Angeles June 6
as Self
2021
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
as herself
2020
Sonic Youth: From The Basement
as self
2019
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
as Self
2018
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
as Corky
2017
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
as Self
2016
Ed Ruscha: Buildings and Words
as Self
2015
Girls in Bands at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
The Nightmare
as Teacher
2013
The Punk Singer
as Self
Une Danse Des Bouffons
as Maria Martins
2012
The Hardcore Collection
as (archive footage)
2010
Rappin' With The Rickster
as Self
2009
From the Basement
as Self - Sonic Youth
2008
New York Rock at the BBC
as Self - Sonic Youth
2007
I'm Not There
as Carla Hendricks
Boarding Gate
as Kay
Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East
as Herself
2006
Noise
as Self
2005
Last Days
as Record Executive
2004
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
as Self
2003
Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
as Performer
2001
Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock
as Self
2000
Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
as Self
1998
Free Tibet
as Self - Sonic Youth
1995
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
as Self
Blood on the Beach
as Self
X-Girl
as interviewer
1994
Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
as Self
No Alternative Girls
as Herself
1992
1991: The Year Punk Broke
as Self
1991
Goo
as Self
1989
Weatherman '69
as Bernadine Dohrn
1988
Put More Blood Into the Music
as Herself
Lou Believers
as Herself