Lydia Lunch

Biography

Lydia Lunch is an American singer, poet, writer, actress and self-empowerment speaker, whose career was spawned by the New York no wave scene. Her work typically features provocative and confrontational noise music delivery, and has maintained an anti-commercial ethic, operating independently of major labels and distributors.

Known For

Herself

Kill Your Idols

Self

Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock

Herself

Lunch on Kern

Angel Powers

Vortex

Fingered

The Right Side of My Brain

Fake Orgasm

Self - Interviewee

Mutantes

Herself

The Wild World of Lydia Lunch

Self

No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York

Herself

Thanatopsis

Herself

Kill Your Idols: More.

Hedda

Kiss Napoleon Goodbye

Herself

Llik Your Idols

She Had Her Gun All Ready

(archive footage)

The Hardcore Collection

Self

Wild Thing

DANCE OF THE DEAD CHILDREN

Death Valley '69

Beauty Becomes the Beast

Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller

The Offenders

Herself

No Age New York

Sitter

Visiting Desire

Lydia Lunch: Malicious Intent

Empress

Rome '78

Submit to Me

Richard Kern - Portrait: Live From New York

Like Dawn to Dust

Submit to Me Now

Self

Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard

Herself

Guerillere Talks

Bub (voice)

Godkiller: Walk Among Us

Herself

The Gun Is Loaded

Black Box

Herself

Barbecue Death Squad From Hell

La chanteuse

Bye Bye Blondie

Prologue

Mondo New York

Herself

NYC Foetus

Za konec časa

Herself

Put More Blood Into the Music

Self

L7: Pretend We're Dead

Self

Blank City

Narrator

Death of the Reel

Narrator

American Fame Pt. 2: Forgetting Jonathan Brandis

Subway Riders

Performer

Baby Trouble Hole

Social Worker #2

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

Night (voice)

The Circular Ruins

Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread

Herself

Lydia Lunch: Video Hysterie: 1978 - 2006

Kill Us All

Saltmaster

Flood Stains

School of Shame

Herself - Interviewee

D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist

Self

Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets

Herself

Punking Out

Spit and Ashes

Self

Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over

Self

Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends

My Lover The Killer

Her Noise - The Making Of

Self

Die Haut - Sweat

Self

No New York Festival - Berlin

Self

Alien Portrait

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

65

Gender

Female

Birthday

1959-06-02

Place of Birth

Rochester, New York, USA

Also Known As

Lydia Anne Koch