Patti Smith

Known for: Acting
Born: December 30, 1946, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Movies: 88

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.

Upcoming Patti Smith Movies

The Song of Hiawatha

Release date TBA

Best-Known Movies

5.5

Song to Song

2017

6.3

The Rugrats Movie

1998

7.4

West of Memphis

2012

7.0

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

2019

6.1

The Big Empty

2003

6.4

Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

2017

5.9

Film Socialisme

2010

6.9

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

2016

6.6

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

2010

7.0

Burroughs: The Movie

1984

Filmography

2026	Portrait of an Artist: Stephen Curry	Self
2026	Tribeca 25	Self
2026	Nova '78	Self (archive footage)
2026	Oliviero Toscani. Chi mi ama mi segua
2025	Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music	Self (archive footage)
2024	Go to Izzy!	Herself
2024	Turn in the Wound
2024	One-Hit Wonders at the BBC: Volume Two	Self (archive footage)
2023	Ron Delsener Presents	Self
2023	Chornobyl	Self
2022	Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer	Self
2022	Patti Smith: Electric Poet	Self (archive footage)
2021	2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony	Self
2021	Now	Self
2020	Wim Wenders, Desperado	Self
2019	Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal	Self
2019	Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese	The Punk Poet
2019	WBCN and the American Revolution	Self
2018	Film catastrophe	Self
2018	Horses: Patti Smith and Her Band	Herself
2018	Kurt Everywhere
2018	Spheres	Narrator (Voice)
2017	Ex Libris: The New York Public Library	Self
2017	Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives	Self
2017	Song to Song	Patti Smith
2016	I Am La Scala	Self
2016	The Book of Conrad
2016	Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures	Self (voice) (uncredited)
2016	U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris
2015	U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015
2015	Girls in Bands at the BBC	Self (archive footage)
2014	Station to Station
2014	The 8th Floor	Self
2014	Bruce Springsteen A MusiCares Tribute	Self
2014	Three Stones for Jean Genet
2013	Lou Reed - Remembered
2013	Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'	Self
2013	Vivre avec Camus	Patti Smith
2012	West of Memphis	Self – WM3 Supporter
2012	Patti Smith - Live at Montreux 2005	Herself
2011	Sleepless Nights Stories	Self
2010	William S. Burroughs: A Man Within	Self
2010	The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town	Self
2010	Film Socialisme	La chanteuse
2009	The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts	Self
2009	Long for the City (Patti Smith in New York)	herself
2009	Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB	Self
2009	All Tomorrow's Parties	Self
2008	The Passage Clock: For Walter Benjamin	Narrator
2008	New York Rock at the BBC
2008	One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur	Self
2008	Patti Smith: Dream of Life	Self
2007	365 Day Project	Self
2007	NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell
2007	You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson	Self
2007	Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens	Self
2007	Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe	Self
2006	Patti Smith at Anthology Film Archives Febr. 19, 1998	Self
2006	The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder: Punk & New Wave	Self
2003	R.E.M.: In View 1988-2003 (The Best of R.E.M.)
2003	The Big Empty	Traveler
2003	Brian Wilson: On Tour	Self
2002	What the Punk - An MVD Sampler
2002	Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You	Self
2001	Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock	Self
2001	25 Years of Punk	Self (archive footage)
2000	Benjamin Smoke	Herself
2000	Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration	Self
1999	Laboratorium Anthology
1998	John Cale: An Exploration of His Life & Music	Self (archive footage)
1998	The Rugrats Movie	Newborn Baby (singing voice)
1997	The Best of Sessions at West 54th: Vol. 1	Self
1997	Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit	Self
1996	New Adventures in Hi-Fi Stereophonic on Film	Self
1995	Dancing Barefoot	Self
1986	Women in Rock	Self (archive footage)
1984	Burroughs: The Movie	Self
1984	Rock My Religion
1980	No. 18: Mahagonny	Self
1978	Still Moving/Patti Smith	Herself
1977	Patti Smith Live in Stockholm 1976	Self
1976	The Blank Generation	Self
1975	Night Lunch	Self
1971	West Side Stories
1971	Robert Having His Nipple Pierced	Narrator (uncredited)
1970	Chelsea Hotel	Self

Directing, Writing & Producing

2014	Three Stones for Jean Genet	Screenplay
2009	Long for the City (Patti Smith in New York)	Screenplay

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