The daughter of 'Grateful Dead' devotee Hank Harrison and psychologist Linda Carroll Courtney Love spent her early years in hippy communes and at schools in Europe and New Zealand. As a musician, she played in early incarnations of Babes In Toyland and Faith No More, as well as acting in bit parts for some Alex Cox films. Courtney founded her band HOLE and released "Pretty on the Inside". Originally a fancier of New Wavey pop sounds, she converted to hard-core screaming and began her skyrocket ascent, Courtney cannily contrived what she termed the "kinderwhore" look - ripped-up baby-doll dresses with little-girl plastic ribbons in her hair - which her friend/rival Bjelland claimed to have invented, Love called the pair's fight over true authorship of the style the "war of the schmatte." She knew it would appeal to both the rebel girls and horny boys (including rock critics). Her live rock act fulfilled all the bravado of her pretentious press persona. In 1992, married Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain. After Cobain's suicide in 1994, and the release of Hole's second album "Live Through This", Love continued to thrill and enrage her fans and detractors with her on-stage and off-stage antics. On the Acting side of the house, Courtney won a golden Globe for her role in "The People VS Larry Flynt" and has appeared in "200 Cigarettes" and the soon to be released "Man on the Moon" with Jim Carrey. Hole's latest album, "Celebrity Skin" has gone multi-platinum. One thing about Courtney, she's not bashful about her body, nor does she refrain from displaying it on film as can be noted by the many vidcaps of her concerts where she flashes the audience.