Patti Smith

Dec 30, 1946 (78 years old) in Chicago, Illinois, USA

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

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Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Cleo Alexander

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Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

Self

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Song to Song

Patti Smith

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2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Self

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Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens

Self

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Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration

Self

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The Rugrats Movie

Newborn Baby (singing voice)

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The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts

Self

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The Defiant Ones

Self

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Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives

Self

Credits

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music 2025

Self

★ 8.1
Turn in the Wound 2024

★ NR
One-Hit Wonders at the BBC: Volume Two 2024

Self (archive footage)

★ 6.5
Ron Delsener Presents 2023

Self

★ NR
Chornobyl 2023

Self

★ NR
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer 2022

Self

★ 7.6
Patti Smith: Electric Poet 2022

Self (archive footage)

★ 8
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony 2021

Self

★ 7
Now 2021

Self

★ 8.8
Wim Wenders, Desperado 2020

Self

★ 7.7
Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal 2019

Self

★ NR
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese 2019

The Punk Poet

★ 7.1
WBCN and the American Revolution 2019

Self

★ 5
Film catastrophe 2018

★ 5.7
Horses: Patti Smith and Her Band 2018

Herself

★ 5.2
Kurt Everywhere 2018

★ NR
Spheres 2018

Narrator (Voice)

★ NR
Popular Voices at the BBC 2017

Self (archive footage)

★ NR
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 2017

Self

★ 6.4
The Defiant Ones 2017

Self

★ 7.8
Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives 2017

Self

★ 6.5
Song to Song 2017

Patti Smith

★ 5.5
Uncle Howard 2017

Self (archive footage)

★ 6.5
I Am La Scala 2016

Self

★ NR
The Book of Conrad 2016

★ NR
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures 2016

Self (voice) (uncredited)

★ 7
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015 2015

★ 7
Girls in Bands at the BBC 2015

Self (archive footage)

★ 7
The 8th Floor 2014

Self

★ NR
Bruce Springsteen A MusiCares Tribute 2014

Self

★ 7.2
Three Stones for Jean Genet 2014

★ 5.6
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis' 2013

Self

★ 8
Sternstunde Musik 2013

Self

★ NR
West of Memphis 2012

Self – WM3 Supporter

★ 7.4
Sleepless Nights Stories 2011

Self

★ 5.7
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within 2010

Self

★ 6.6
The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town 2010

Self

★ 6.6
Film Socialisme 2010

La chanteuse

★ 6
The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts 2009

Self

★ 8.1
Long for the City (Patti Smith in New York) 2009

herself

★ NR
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB 2009

Self

★ 8
All Tomorrow's Parties 2009

Self

★ 6.5
New York Rock at the BBC 2008

★ 6.5
One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur 2008

Self

★ 6.8
Patti Smith: Dream of Life 2008

Self

★ 6
365 Day Project 2007

Self

★ 10
NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell 2007

★ 7.5
You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson 2007

Self

★ 6.4
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens 2007

Self

★ 7.7
Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe 2007

Self

★ 5.2
The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder: Punk & New Wave 2006

Self

★ NR
Patti Smith - Live at Montreux 2005 2005

Herself

★ 7.8
Rockpolitik 2005

Self

★ NR
R.E.M.: In View 1988-2003 (The Best of R.E.M.) 2003

★ 3
The Big Empty 2003

Traveler

★ 6.2
Brian Wilson: On Tour 2003

Self

★ NR
What the Punk - An MVD Sampler 2002

★ 5
Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You 2002

Self

★ 6
Law & Order: Criminal Intent 2001

Cleo Alexander

★ 7.6
Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock 2001

Self

★ NR
25 Years of Punk 2001

Self (archive footage)

★ 6
Benjamin Smoke 2000

Herself

★ 4.2
Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration 2000

Self

★ 6.3
Patti Smith at Anthology Film Archives Febr. 19, 1998 1998

Self

★ NR
John Cale: An Exploration of His Life & Music 1998

Self (archive footage)

★ NR
The Rugrats Movie 1998

Newborn Baby (singing voice)

★ 6.2
The Best of Sessions at West 54th: Vol. 1 1997

Self

★ 8
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit 1997

Self

★ 5.2
New Adventures in Hi-Fi Stereophonic on Film 1996

Self

★ 7
Saturday Night Special 1996

★ 5
Dancing Barefoot 1995

Self

★ 5.7
Women in Rock 1986

Self (archive footage)

★ NR
Burroughs: The Movie 1984

Self

★ 7.1
Rock My Religion 1984

★ NR
No. 18: Mahagonny 1980

Self

★ 5.5
Patti Smith Group: Live on Rockpalast 1979

Performer

★ NR
Still Moving/Patti Smith 1978

Herself

★ NR
Patti Smith Live in Stockholm 1976 1977

Self

★ NR
The Blank Generation 1976

Self

★ 5.8
Night Lunch 1975

Self

★ 5
West Side Stories 1971

★ NR
Robert Having His Nipple Pierced 1971

Narrator (uncredited)

★ 1.5
Chelsea Hotel 1970

Self

★ NR