--- name: "Janis Joplin" canonical: "https://film.one/person/janis-joplin" fi1m_id: "janis-joplin" imdb_id: "nm0429767" tmdb_id: 86395 wikidata_id: "Q1514" roles: [] born: "19 January 1943" died: "4 October 1970" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_fi1m_score: 68 average_over: 2 updated: "2026-10-02T22:46:58.439386+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Janis Joplin ## Identity Janis Joplin - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/janis-joplin - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** janis-joplin - **IMDb ID:** nm0429767 - **TMDB ID:** 86395 - **Wikidata ID:** Q1514 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janis_Joplin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1514, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0429767/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/86395 Actor. Born 19 January 1943 in Port Arthur, Texas, USA. Died 4 October 1970. ## Details - **Born:** 19 January 1943, Port Arthur, Texas, USA - **Died:** 4 October 1970 - **Also known as:** Janis Lyn Joplin - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 80 (1), 2010s 55 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janis_Joplin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1514, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0429767/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/86395 ## Streaming the US now - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*When You're Strange*](https://film.one/film/when-youre-strange.md) (55) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Janis Joplin was an American singer who appeared in several music documentaries and feature films, usually credited as herself or via archive footage. Born Janis Lyn Joplin in Port Arthur, Texas, on 19 January 1943, she died in Hollywood, California, on 4 October 1970. Her film credits include appearances in *Monterey Pop* (1968), *Petulia* (1968, uncredited), *Woodstock* (1970) and *When You're Strange* (2010). *Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.* ## On Fi1m (2) - *When You're Strange* (2010), Fi1m 55, as Self (archive footage) — [page](https://film.one/film/when-youre-strange.md) - *Woodstock* (1970), Fi1m 80, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/woodstock.md) ## Complete filmography (11) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *The Summer of Love* (2017), Actor - *Janis Joplin - The way she was Janis* (2007), Actor - *Ed Sullivan's Rock 'N' Roll Classics: Rockin' the Sixties* (2005), Actor - *Monterey Pop - The Outtake Performances* (2002), as Big Brother and the Holding Company - *Janis Joplin Slept Here* (1994), Actor - *Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company* (1986), Music - *Women Prison: Vigilante Justice* (1978), Music - *Baby Variations* (1974), Music - *Got No Shoes, Got No Blues: the Texas International Pop Festival* (1969), Actor - *Janis Joplin - Live*, Actor - *Janis Joplin: In Woodstock*, as as Herself ## Gallery - ![Janis Joplin](https://film.one/media/person/571029/gallery-5b3d46d9c60f.jpg) Janis Joplin — Grossman Glotzer Management Corporation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Janis_Joplin_1970.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Cover: Progress' (Sky River Rock Festival poster on reverse), by Walt Crowley. Pages 2 and 24 advertise the Sky River Rock Festival. Page 3 article discusses Se](https://film.one/media/person/571029/gallery-e5a068883b1c.jpg) Cover: Progress' (Sky River Rock Festival poster on reverse), by Walt Crowley. Pages 2 and 24 advertise the Sky River Rock Festival. Page 3 article discusses Se — Dorpat, Paul, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Helix%2C_v.4%2C_no.4%2C_Aug._15%2C_1968_-_DPLA_-_ed4ee91948fc8a79b182fdeb295370d3_%28page_19%29.jpg/1280px-Helix%2C_v.4%2C_no.4%2C_Aug._15%2C_1968_-_DPLA_-_ed4ee91948fc8a79b182fdeb295370d3_%28page_19%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Cover: 'Christ is Coming', by Paul Dorpat](https://film.one/media/person/571029/gallery-23838e7695e6.jpg) Cover: 'Christ is Coming', by Paul Dorpat — Dorpat, Paul, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Helix%2C_v.4%2C_no.7%2C_Sep._12%2C_1968_-_DPLA_-_feeee1d59fc70ba359e15965679dafbf_%28page_15%29.jpg/1280px-Helix%2C_v.4%2C_no.7%2C_Sep._12%2C_1968_-_DPLA_-_feeee1d59fc70ba359e15965679dafbf_%28page_15%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Newspaper article in the wake of Elvis' passing referencing Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison. (1977)](https://film.one/media/person/571029/gallery-e906a7a8140e.jpg) Newspaper article in the wake of Elvis' passing referencing Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison. (1977) — The Atlanta Constitution, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Hendrix%2C_Joplin_and_Morrison_-_The_Atlanta_Constitution_%281977%29.jpg/1280px-Hendrix%2C_Joplin_and_Morrison_-_The_Atlanta_Constitution_%281977%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Newspaper article in the wake of Elvis' passing referencing Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison. (1977)](https://film.one/media/person/571029/gallery-474600369a39.jpg) Newspaper article in the wake of Elvis' passing referencing Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison. (1977) — The Atlanta Constitution, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Hendrix%2C_Joplin_and_Morrison_-_The_Atlanta_Constitution_%281977%29_%28HendrixAgeFix%29.jpg/1280px-Hendrix%2C_Joplin_and_Morrison_-_The_Atlanta_Constitution_%281977%29_%28HendrixAgeFix%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Other awards — 3 won - star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 2013: star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (won) - Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 2005: Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (won) - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1995: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/janis-joplin