Kim Gordon

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

71

Gender

Female

Birthday

1953-04-28 (71 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.

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Known For

Gossip Girl
8.2%

Gossip Girl

Sep 19, 2007

Gilmore Girls
7.9%

Gilmore Girls

Oct 5, 2000

I'm Not There
6.5%

I'm Not There

Oct 1, 2007

Saturday Night Live
6.9%

Saturday Night Live

Oct 11, 1975

Last Days
5.5%

Last Days

Jun 12, 2005

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
5.5%

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Jan 26, 2003

Portlandia
6.9%

Portlandia

Jan 21, 2011

Boarding Gate
5.0%

Boarding Gate

Aug 22, 2007

The Nightmare
6.5%

The Nightmare

Jul 1, 2015

The Punk Singer
7.2%

The Punk Singer

Nov 29, 2013

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Acting

Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
The Chronology of Water
2025
Pavements
2025
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney as Self - Musical Guest
2025
Bad Painter as Interviewer
2025
FireAid Benefit Concert as Self
2024
Picture Window as Kim Gordon
2024
A Proposal for A Dance as Self
2024
12341 Branford St. Sun Valley as Self
2024
Los Angeles June 6 as Self
2024
Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
2021
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr. as herself
2020
Sonic Youth: From The Basement as self
2019
Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
2019
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions as Self
2019
Daydream Nation
2018
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot as Corky
2017
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution as Self
2016
Party Legends
2016
Ed Ruscha: Buildings and Words as Self
2015
Girls in Bands at the BBC as Self (archive footage)
2015
The Nightmare as Teacher
2013
The Punk Singer as Self
2013
Une Danse Des Bouffons as Maria Martins
2013
I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
2012
The Hardcore Collection as (archive footage)
2011
Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
2011
Portlandia as Kim Gordon
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
365 Day Project
2007
I'm Not There as Carla Hendricks
2007
Gossip Girl as Kim Gordon
2007
Boarding Gate as Kay
2007
Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East as Herself
2006
Her Noise - The Making Of
2006
Cut Shorts
2006
Noise as Self
2005
Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
2005
Last Days as Record Executive
2004
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale as Self
2004
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
2003
Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage as Performer
2003
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
2001
Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock as Self
2000
Sonic Youth: Live in Rio 2000
2000
Gilmore Girls as Cool Mom Troubadour
2000
Silver Rockets/Kool Things: 20 Years of Sonic Youth
1998
Free Tibet as Self - Sonic Youth
1996
Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
1995
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special as Self
1995
Blood on the Beach as Self
1995
X-Girl as interviewer
1994
Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos as Self
1994
No Alternative Girls as Herself
1993
Changing Fashions
1993
Grunge Pedal
1992
1991: The Year Punk Broke as Self
1991
Sonic Youth - Goo as Herself
1991
Skeeno H.C. Rules
1991
Goo as Self
1991
Notebook
1989
Weatherman '69 as Bernadine Dohrn
1988
Put More Blood Into the Music as Herself
1988
Lou Believers as Herself
1986
Sublapse Video Mag 1
1986
Submit to Me
1986
Death Valley '69
1975
Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

Directing

2024
Picture Window as Director
2024
12341 Branford St. Sun Valley as Director
2024
Los Angeles June 6 as Director
2003
The Work of Director Spike Jonze as Director
1997
Teenie Weenie Boppie as Director
1985
Making the Nature Scene as Director

Production

1995
X-Girl as Executive Producer

Sound

2010
Lights Out as Music
2009
Massage the History as Music
2004
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things as Music
2003
Me Myself and the Universe as Music
2002
Demonlover as Original Music Composer
2001
Things Behind the Sun as Original Music Composer
1991
Goo as Music
1987
Made in U.S.A. as Original Music Composer
1984
Rock My Religion as Music
1963
Kiss as Music

Writing

1991
Goo as Writer
1984
Rock My Religion as Idea
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