Courtney Love turns 60: a look back (20 images)

By Wade Sheridan

Rockstar and actress Courtney Love is best known as the lead singer for Hole, for being married to late rockstar Kurt Cobain, for songs "Celebrity Skin," "Malibu" and "Violet" and her roles in films "Man On The Moon" and "The People Vs. Larry Flynt." Love turns 60 on Tuesday. Here's a look back at her career through the years.

Courtney Love and her child, Frances Bean Cobain, attend the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles on September 2, 1993. Love shares Frances Bean Cobain with her late husband, Kurt Cobain, who died by suicide on April 5, 1994. Photo by UPI

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Love (L) and Drew Barrymore attend the premeire of Barrymore's film "Home Fries" in Los Angeles on November 16, 1998. Barrymore, in 2020, discussed her friendship with Love on her daytime talk show stating that she loved Love's "raw" persona. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI

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Love and her band Hole plays Vancouver's Coliseum on a double bill with headliner Marilyn Manson on March 2, 1999. Photo by H. Ruckemann/UPI

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Love (L) strikes a pose with her bandmates backstage during the MTV Movie Awards in Santa Monica, Calif., on June 5, 1999. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI

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