Patti Smith
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
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
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self -Guest/Musical Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
Saturday Night Live
Self (uncredited)
Saturday Night Live
Self - Musical Guest
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Cleo Alexander
The Colbert Report
Filmography
Nova '78
2026
as Self (archive footage)
Tribeca 25
2026
as Self
Portrait of an Artist: Stephen Curry
2026
as Self
Oliviero Toscani. Chi mi ama mi segua
2026
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025
as Self (archive footage)
Turn in the Wound
2024
One-Hit Wonders at the BBC: Volume Two
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Go to Izzy!
2024
as Herself
Chornobyl
2023
as Self
Ron Delsener Presents
2023
as Self
Patti Smith: Electric Poet
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
as Self
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2021
as Self
Now
2021
as Self
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020
as Self
WBCN and the American Revolution
2019
as Self
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019
as The Punk Poet
Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal
2019
as Self
Spheres
2018
as Narrator (Voice)
Kurt Everywhere
2018
Horses: Patti Smith and Her Band
2018
as Herself
Film catastrophe
2018
as Self
Song to Song
2017
as Patti Smith
Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives
2017
as Self
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
2017
as Self
Popular Voices at the BBC
2017
as Self (archive footage)
The Defiant Ones
2017
as Self
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
2016
as Self (voice) (uncredited)
The Book of Conrad
2016
I Am La Scala
2016
as Self
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris
2016
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015
2015
Girls in Bands at the BBC
2015
as Self (archive footage)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self -Guest/Musical Guest
Bruce Springsteen A MusiCares Tribute
2014
as Self
Three Stones for Jean Genet
2014
The 8th Floor
2014
as Self
Station to Station
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self - Guest
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
2013
as Self
Lou Reed - Remembered
2013
Sternstunde Musik
2013
as Self
Patti Smith - Live at Montreux 2005
2012
as Herself
West of Memphis
2012
as Self – WM3 Supporter
Sleepless Nights Stories
2011
as Self
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010
as Self
Film Socialisme
2010
as La chanteuse
The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town
2010
as Self
The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
2009
as Self
All Tomorrow's Parties
2009
as Self
Long for the City (Patti Smith in New York)
2009
as herself
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
2009
as Self
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
2008
as Self
One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur
2008
as Self
New York Rock at the BBC
2008
The Passage Clock: For Walter Benjamin
2008
as Narrator
NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell
2007
365 Day Project
2007
as Self
You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson
2007
as Self
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
2007
as Self
Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
2007
as Self
The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder: Punk & New Wave
2006
as Self
The Colbert Report
2005
Rockpolitik
2005
as Self
The Culture Show
2004
as Self
Kulturplatz
2004
as Self
R.E.M.: In View 1988-2003 (The Best of R.E.M.)
2003
Brian Wilson: On Tour
2003
as Self
The Big Empty
2003
as Traveler
What the Punk - An MVD Sampler
2002
Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You
2002
as Self
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
2002
as Self
Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock
2001
as Self
25 Years of Punk
2001
as Self (archive footage)
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
as Cleo Alexander
Democracy Now!
2001
as Self
Benjamin Smoke
2000
as Herself
Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration
2000
as Self
The Early Show
1999
as Self
The Rugrats Movie
1998
as Newborn Baby (singing voice)
John Cale: An Exploration of His Life & Music
1998
as Self (archive footage)
Patti Smith at Anthology Film Archives Febr. 19, 1998
1998
as Self
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
1997
as Self
The Best of Sessions at West 54th: Vol. 1
1997
as Self
New Adventures in Hi-Fi Stereophonic on Film
1996
as Self
Saturday Night Special
1996
Dancing Barefoot
1995
as Self
NeXt
1994
as Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Musical Guest
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Women in Rock
1986
as Self (archive footage)
Burroughs: The Movie
1984
as Self
Rock My Religion
1984
No. 18: Mahagonny
1980
as Self
Still Moving/Patti Smith
1978
as Herself
Patti Smith Live in Stockholm 1976
1977
as Self
The Blank Generation
1976
as Self
Night Lunch
1975
as Self
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self (uncredited)
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Musical Guest
West Side Stories
1971
Robert Having His Nipple Pierced
1971
as Narrator (uncredited)
Chelsea Hotel
1970
as Self
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self