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Thurston Moore
Actor, Composer, Director, Producer, WriterBorn July 25, 1958 (67 years)
Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label. Moore was ranked 34th in Rolling Stone's 2004 edition of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time." In May 2012, Spin published a staff-selected top 100 ranking Moore and his Sonic Youth bandmate Lee Ranaldo together on number 1.
Filmography
| 2025 | Broken English · as Self |
| 2025 | |
| 2025 | The Secret Lives of Bill Bartell · as Self |
| 2024 | Pavements · as Self (uncredited) |
| 2023 | Uncropped · as Self |
| 2023 | |
| 2023 | Louder Than You Think · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2021 | Grunge: A Story of Music and Rage · as Self - Sonic Youth |
| 2021 | Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr. · as Himself |
| 2021 | Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2021 | The Sparks Brothers · as Self |
| 2021 | Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché · as Self |
| 2019 | Where Does a Body End? · as Self |
| 2019 | Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over · as Self |
| 2019 | Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine · as Self - Sonic Youth |
| 2019 | Punk (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2019 | |
| 2017 | Teenage Superstars · as Self |
| 2017 | The Public Image is Rotten · as Himself |
| 2016 | |
| 2016 | Borbetomagus: A Pollock of Sound · as Self |
| 2016 | Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape · as Himself |
| 2014 | Salad Days · as Self |
| 2014 | Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2013 | The Punk Singer · as Self |
| 2011 | Ben Lee: Catch My Disease · as Self |
| 2011 | Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard · as Self |
| 2010 | Blank City · as Self |
| 2010 | William S. Burroughs: A Man Within · as Self |
| 2010 | Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child · as Self |
| 2009 | |
| 2009 | Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (TV Series) · as Self - Musical Guest |
| 2008 | New York Rock at the BBC · as Self - Sonic Youth |
| 2008 | |
| 2006 | Noise · as Self |
| 2006 | |
| 2005 | You're Gonna Miss Me · as Self |
| 2005 | Punk: Attitude · as Himself |
| 2005 | Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind · as Self |
| 2005 | All We Are Saying · as Self |
| 2005 | We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen · as Self |
| 2005 | The Devil and Daniel Johnston · as Self |
| 2005 | Cecil Taylor All the Notes · as Himself |
| 2004 | Kill Your Idols · as Self |
| 2003 | Soundstage (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV Series) · as Self - Musical Guest |
| 2003 | End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones · as Self - Sonic Youth |
| 2002 | Pavement: Slow Century · as Self |
| 2002 | Through the Night With... (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2001 | VH1 Presents the 80's (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2001 | 25 Years of Punk · as Self |
| 2000 | Yo Awesome Awesome! (TV Series) · as Self - Sonic Youth |
| 1998 | Free Tibet · as Self - Sonic Youth |
| 1998 | Pop Odyssee 2 - House of the Rising Punk · as Self |
| 1997 | Behind the Music (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1997 | Classic Albums (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1997 | Don't Bring A Dog · as Himself |
| 1996 | E! True Hollywood Story (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1995 | |
| 1995 | |
| 1994 | Hi Octane (TV Series) · as Self (host) |
| 1994 | 1994 MTV Movie Awards · as Self - Backbeat |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien (TV Series) · as Self - Musical Guest |
| 1993 | Late Show with David Letterman (TV Series) · as Self - Musical Guest |
| 1992 | 1991: The Year Punk Broke · as Self |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV Series) · as Self - Musical Guest |
| 1991 | Goo · as Self |
| 1989 | The Simpsons (TV Series) · as Thurston Moore |
| 1987 | Rage (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1986 | 120 Minutes (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1985 | American Masters (TV Series) · as Self |