Lydia Lunch
Acting • Born 1959-06-02
Biography
Lydia Lunch is an American singer, poet, writer, actress and self-empowerment speaker, whose career was spawned by the New York no wave scene. Her work typically features provocative and confrontational noise music delivery, and has maintained an anti-commercial ethic, operating independently of major labels and distributors.
Filmography
69 credits
Kill Your Idols
Movie • 2004
Self
Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock
Movie • 2001
Self
Lunch on Kern
Movie • 1997
Herself
Vortex
Movie • 1982
Angel Powers
Fingered
Movie • 1986
The Right Side of My Brain
Movie • 1984
Narrator
Fake Orgasm
Movie • 2010
Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism
Movie • 2009
Self - Interviewee
The Wild World of Lydia Lunch
Movie • 1983
Herself
No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
Movie • 2009
Self
Thanatopsis
Movie • 1991
Herself
Kill Your Idols: More.
Movie • 2006
Herself
Kiss Napoleon Goodbye
Movie • 1990
Hedda
Llik Your Idols
Movie • 2007
Herself
She Had Her Gun All Ready
Movie • 1978
The Hardcore Collection
Movie • 2012
(archive footage)
Wild Thing
Movie • 2012
Self
DANCE OF THE DEAD CHILDREN
Movie • 1982
Beauty Becomes the Beast
Movie • 1979
Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller
Movie • 1980
The Offenders
Movie • 1980
No Age New York
Movie • 1993
Herself
Visiting Desire
Movie • 1996
Sitter
Lydia Lunch: Malicious Intent
Movie • 1994
Rome '78
Movie • 1978
Empress
Submit to Me
Movie • 1986
Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York
Movie • 1997
Like Dawn to Dust
Movie • 1983
Submit to Me Now
Movie • 1987
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
Movie • 2011
Self
Guerillere Talks
Movie • 1978
Herself
Godkiller: Walk Among Us
Movie • 2010
Bub (voice)
The Gun Is Loaded
Movie • 1989
Herself
Black Box
Movie • 1979
Torturer
Barbecue Death Squad From Hell
Movie • 1986
Herself
Bye Bye Blondie
Movie • 2012
La chanteuse
Mondo New York
Movie • 1988
Prologue
NYC Foetus
Movie • 2009
Herself
For the End of Time
Movie • 2009
Put More Blood Into the Music
Movie • 1988
Herself
L7: Pretend We're Dead
Movie • 2017
Self
Blank City
Movie • 2011
Self
Subway Riders
Movie • 1981
Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread
Movie • 1987
Baby Trouble Hole
Movie • 1996
Performer
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
Movie • 2004
Social Worker #2
American Fame Pt. 2: Forgetting Jonathan Brandis
Movie • 2005
Narrator
Death of the Reel
Movie • 2008
Narrator
Lydia Lunch: Video Hysterie: 1978 - 2006
Movie • 2008
Herself
Flood Stains
Movie • 2010
Saltmaster
Kill Us All
Movie • 2014
The Circular Ruins
Movie • 2014
Night (voice)
School of Shame
Movie • 1984
D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
Movie • 2002
Herself - Interviewee
Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets
Movie • 1989
Self
Punking Out
Movie • 1978
Herself
Spit and Ashes
Movie • 2019
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
Movie • 2019
Self
Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends
Movie • 1987
Self
My Lover The Killer
Movie • 2020
Her Noise - The Making Of
Movie • 2006
Die Haut - Sweat
Movie • 1994
Self
Alien Portrait
Movie • 1979
Self
No New York Festival - Berlin
Movie • 1979
Self
Road Rant: A Week on the Road with Lydia Lunch
Movie • 2012
Self
The Agony Is The Ecstacy
Movie • 1982
Fingered
Movie • 1986
70 Years of Youth Revolt
TV • 2020
Self (archive footage)
The Ripple Effect
TV • 2016
Self