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Thurston Moore
Thurston Moore

Thurston Moore

Acting•Born July 25, 1958 (age 68)•Coral Gables, Florida, USA

Biography

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.

Known For

Late Show with David Letterman
6.4

Late Show with David Letterman

TV Series1993
Gilmore Girls
7.9

Gilmore Girls

TV Series2000
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
5.3

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

TV Series2003
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
5.4

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

TV Series1992
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
7.3

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

TV Series1993
Classic Albums
7.7

Classic Albums

TV Series1997
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
6.0

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

TV Series2009
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
7.8

Space Ghost Coast to Coast

TV Series1994

Filmography

2026
The Last Critic
Movie
2026
The Best Summer

as Self

Movie
2026
Broken English

as Self

Movie
2026
The Wizard of the Kremlin

as Synthesizer Player

Movie
2025
Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
Movie
2025
Pavements

as Self (uncredited)

Movie
2025
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt

as Self

Movie
2024
The Road to Ruane

as Self

Movie
2024
Uncropped

as Self

Movie
2024
Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
Movie
2024
Scala!!!

as Self

Movie
2023
Louder Than You Think

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2021
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.

as himself

Movie
2021
Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson

as Self

TV
2021
The Sparks Brothers

as Self

Movie
2021
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché

as Self

Movie
2020
Thick Air

as Himself

Movie
2019
Swans: Where Does a Body End?

as Self

Movie
2019
Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
Movie
2019
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over

as Self

Movie
2019
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions

as Self

Movie
2019
Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine

as Self - Sonic Youth

Movie
2019
Punk

as Self

TV
2019
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
Movie
2018
Desolation Center
Movie
2017
Teenage Superstars

as Self

Movie
2017
The Public Image Is Rotten

as Himself

Movie
2016
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape

as Himself

Movie
2015
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)

as Self

Movie
2014
Station to Station
Movie
2014
It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline

as Himself

Movie
2013
Lou Reed - Remembered
Movie
2013
I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
Movie
2012
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease

as Self

Movie
2012
The Hardcore Collection

as (archive footage)

Movie
2011
Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
Movie
2011
Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
Movie
2011
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard

as Self

Movie
2011
Blank City

as Self

Movie
2010
Sonic Youth & The Black Keys: Live at Austin City Limits 2011
Movie
2010
Ecstatic Peace Archives
Movie
2010
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

as Self

Movie
2009
No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York

as Self

Movie
2009
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB

as Self

Movie
2009
From the Basement

as Self - Sonic Youth

Movie
2009
From The Basement

as Self - Sonic Youth

Movie
2009
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

as Self - Musical Guest

TV
2008
New York Rock at the BBC

as Self - Sonic Youth

Movie
2008
I Need That Record!

as Himself

Movie
2007
365 Day Project

as Self

Movie
2007
Welcome to My Castle!

as Self

Movie
2007
Llik Your Idols

as Himself

Movie
2007
You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson

as Self

Movie
2007
Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East

as Himself

Movie
2006
Cut Shorts
Movie
2006
Kill Your Idols: More.

as Self

Movie
2006
Noise

as Self

Movie
2006
The Devil and Daniel Johnston

as Self

Movie
2005
Punk: Attitude

as Himself

Movie
2005
Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
Movie
2005
Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind

as Self

Movie
2005
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen

as Self

Movie
2005
Day Trip Maryanne
Movie
2005
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes

as Himself

Movie
2005
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet

as Self

Movie
2004
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale

as Self

Movie
2004
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
Movie
2004
Kill Your Idols

as Self

Movie
2003
Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage

as Performer

Movie
2003
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
Movie
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!

as Self - Musical Guest

TV
2002
Pavement: Slow Century

as Self

Movie
2001
25 Years of Punk

as Self

Movie
2001
Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Movie
2000
Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
Movie
2000
Gilmore Girls

as Cool Dad Troubadour

TV
2000
Record Player: Christian Marclay

as Himself

Movie
2000
The Hardcore Collection
Movie
2000
Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth

as Self

Movie
1999
David S. Ware

as Himself

Movie
1999
Turn of the Century

as Himself

Movie
1998
Free Tibet

as Self - Sonic Youth

Movie
1998
Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
Movie
1997
Classic Albums

as Self

TV
1997
Don't Bring A Dog

as Himself

Movie
1996
Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
Movie
1996
Tibetan Freedom Concert

as Self

Movie
1995
An Introduction to Harmolodics
Movie
1995
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special

as Self

Movie
1995
Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times

as Self

Movie
1995
Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
Movie
1995
Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach

as Self

Movie
1994
Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!
Movie
1994
Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos

as Self

Movie
1994
Hi Octane

as Self (Host)

TV
1994
Space Ghost Coast to Coast

as Fred Cracklin

TV
1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien

as Self - Musical Guest

TV
1993
Late Show with David Letterman

as Self - Musical Guest

TV
1993
Changing Fashions
Movie
1993
Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
Movie
1993
Grunge Pedal
Movie
1992
1991: The Year Punk Broke

as Self

Movie
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

as Self - Musical Guest

TV
1991
Skeeno H.C. Rules
Movie
1991
Goo

as Self

Movie
1991
Rap Damage
Movie
1991
Notebook
Movie
1989
Weatherman '69

as Jeff Jones

Movie
1988
Sonic Youth: 930 Club
Movie
1988
Put More Blood Into the Music

as Himself

Movie
1988
Lou Believers

as Himself

Movie
1986
Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
Movie
1986
Sublapse Video Mag 1
Movie
1986
Submit to Me
Movie
1985
Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
Movie
—
Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
Movie
—
Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
Movie
—
Sonic Youth Full Set From The Basement

as Self

Movie

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayJuly 25, 1958
Place of BirthCoral Gables, Florida, USA
Popularity0.8