Lee Ranaldo
Acting • Born 1956-02-03
Biography
Lee Mark Ranaldo (born February 3, 1956) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known as a co-founder of the rock band Sonic Youth. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Ranaldo at number 33 on its "Greatest Guitarists of All Time" list. In May 2012, Spin published a staff-selected top 100 guitarist list, ranking Ranaldo and his Sonic Youth bandmate Thurston Moore together at number 1.
Filmography
55 credits
Velvet Suite
Movie • 2023
himself
1991: The Year Punk Broke
Movie • 1992
Self
Kill Your Idols
Movie • 2004
Self
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
Movie • 2004
Omega
Movie • 2016
Self
Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
Movie • 2000
Self
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
Movie • 2003
Record Player: Christian Marclay
Movie • 2000
Himself
Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
Movie • 1996
Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
Movie • 2005
Fragments of Paradise
Movie • 2022
Self
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
Movie • 2005
Self
From the Basement
Movie • 2009
Self - Sonic Youth
Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio
Movie • 2014
Himself
Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach
Movie • 1995
Self
Don't Bring A Dog
Movie • 1997
Himself
Goo
Movie • 1991
Self
The Hardcore Collection
Movie • 2012
(archive footage)
Sublapse Video Mag 1
Movie • 1986
365 Day Project
Movie • 2007
Self
Daddy Longlegs
Movie • 2010
Stepfather
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
Movie • 2004
Self
Desolation Center
Movie • 2018
Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
Movie • 2003
Performer
Vinyl: An Unlikely History
Movie
Himself
Put More Blood Into the Music
Movie • 1988
Himself
Sex and Broadcasting
Movie • 2014
Self
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
Movie • 2019
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
Movie • 2019
Self
12 O'Clock High: Volumes 1 & 2
Movie • 2004
Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
Movie • 2019
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
Movie • 2019
Self
Noise
Movie • 2006
Self
Hello Hello Hello: Lee Ranaldo, Electric Trim
Movie • 2017
Self
Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
Movie
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
Movie • 1995
Self
Submit to Me
Movie • 1986
New York Rock at the BBC
Movie • 2008
Self - Sonic Youth
Skeeno H.C. Rules
Movie • 1991
Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
Movie • 2011
Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
Movie • 2000
Free Tibet
Movie • 1998
Self - Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
Movie • 1985
Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 1998
Movie • 1998
Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 2002
Movie • 2002
Peas and Carrots
Movie • 2025
Lee
Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
Movie • 2025
Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
Movie • 1993
Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
Movie • 1998
Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
Movie • 2011
Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
Movie • 1995
Sonic Youth: 930 Club
Movie • 1988
Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
Movie • 1986
Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
Movie
Tibetan Freedom Concert
Movie
Self