Patti Smith

Personal Info

Birthday

December 30, 1946

(78 years old)

Place of Birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

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.

Known For

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

The Rugrats Movie

Song to Song

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

The Big Empty

Film Socialisme

Robert Having His Nipple Pierced

Spheres

Filmography

2025
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
as Self
2024
One-Hit Wonders at the BBC: Volume Two
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Ron Delsener Presents
as Self
Chornobyl
as Self
2022
Werner Herzog - Radikaler Träumer
as Self
Patti Smith: Electric Poet
as Self (archive footage)
2021
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
as Self
Now
as Self
2020
Wim Wenders, Desperado
as Self
2019
Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal
as Self
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
as The Punk Poet
WBCN and the American Revolution
as Self
2018
Horses: Patti Smith and Her Band
as Herself
Spheres
as Narrator (Voice)
2017
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
as Self
Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives
as Self
Song to Song
as Patti Smith
2016
I Am La Scala
as Self
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
as Self (voice) (uncredited)
2015
Girls in Bands at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
2014
The 8th Floor
as Self
Bruce Springsteen A MusiCares Tribute
as Self
2013
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
as Self
2012
West of Memphis
as Self – WM3 Supporter
Patti Smith - Live at Montreux 2005
as Herself
2011
Sleepless Nights Stories
as Self
2010
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
as Self
The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town
as Self
Film Socialisme
as La chanteuse
2009
The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
as Self
Long for the City (Patti Smith in New York)
as herself
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
as Self
All Tomorrow's Parties
as Self
2008
The Passage Clock: For Walter Benjamin
as Narrator
One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur
as Self
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
as Self
2007
365 Day Project
as Self
You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson
as Self
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
as Self
Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
as Self
2006
The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder: Punk & New Wave
as Self
2003
The Big Empty
as Traveler
Brian Wilson: On Tour
as Self
2002
Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You
as Self
2001
Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock
as Self
25 Years of Punk
as Self (archive footage)
2000
Benjamin Smoke
as Herself
Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration
as Self
1998
Patti Smith at Anthology Film Archives Febr. 19, 1998
as Self
John Cale: An Exploration of His Life & Music
as Self (archive footage)
The Rugrats Movie
as Newborn Baby (singing voice)
1997
The Best of Sessions at West 54th: Vol. 1
as Self
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
as Self
1996
New Adventures in Hi-Fi Stereophonic on Film
as Self
1995
Dancing Barefoot
as Self
1986
Women in Rock
as Self (archive footage)
1984
Burroughs: The Movie
as Self
1980
No. 18: Mahagonny
as Self
1979
Patti Smith Group: Rockpalast 1979
as Performer
1978
Still Moving/Patti Smith
as Herself
1977
Patti Smith Live in Stockholm 1976
as Self
1976
The Blank Generation
as Self
1975
Night Lunch
as Self
1971
Robert Having His Nipple Pierced
as Narrator (uncredited)
1970
Chelsea Hotel
as Self