---
name: "Laurie Anderson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/laurie-anderson"
fi1m_id: "laurie-anderson"
imdb_id: "nm0002173"
tmdb_id: 68929
wikidata_id: "Q235066"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "5 June 1947"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:43:34.526426+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."
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# Laurie Anderson

## Identity

Laurie Anderson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/laurie-anderson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** laurie-anderson
- **IMDb ID:** nm0002173
- **TMDB ID:** 68929
- **Wikidata ID:** Q235066
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Anderson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q235066, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002173/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/68929

Composer. Born 5 June 1947 in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 5 June 1947, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, USA
- **Also known as:** Laura Phillips Anderson
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Anderson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q235066, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002173/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/68929

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Something Wild*](https://film.one/film/something-wild.md) (82)

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## Biography

Laurie Anderson, also credited as Laura Phillips Anderson, is an American performance artist, composer, musician and filmmaker. Born on 5 June 1947 in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, she studied at Barnard College and Columbia University before beginning performance art projects in New York in the 1970s.

She is known for multimedia works including the performance *United States I–IV* and the 1986 concert film *Home of the Brave*, which she directed and starred in. Anderson composed the score for Jonathan Demme’s *Something Wild* (1986) with John Cale. Her film credits include narration, direction and writing on *Heart of a Dog* (2015) and a singing voice role in *The Rugrats Movie* (1998). She has also appeared as herself in documentaries such as *Feminists: What Were They Thinking?* (2018).

Anderson was married to musician Lou Reed from 2008 until his death in 2013.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, criterion.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Something Wild* (1986), Fi1m 82, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/something-wild.md)

## Complete filmography (39)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Laurie Anderson Saint Joan of Arc Basilica, Paris* (2025), Actor
- *Own Forest* (2023), Music
- *Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds - The City* (2021), Director
- *Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds - The Road* (2021), Director
- *Sisters with Transistors* (2021), as Narrator (voice)
- *Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds - Rocks* (2021), Director
- *Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds - The Forest* (2021), Director
- *Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds - The River* (2021), Director
- *Walking While Falling* (2020), Music
- *To the Moon* (2018), Director
- *aloft* (2017), Director
- *La Camera Insabbiata* (2017), Director
- *Yoko Ono Lennon's Courage Awards 2016: Laurie Anderson, Mohammad el Gharani, Eileen Boxer, RoseLee Goldberg, LoftOpera* (2016), Actor
- *Heart of a Dog* (2015), Narrator, Director, Writer, Producer, Animation, Draughtsman, Camera Operator, Original Music Composer
- *Miral* (2010), as Songs
- *Homeland: The Story of the Lark* (2010), Actor
- *Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film* (2006), as Narrator
- *McLuhan's Wake* (2002), as Narrator
- *The Rugrats Movie* (1998), as Newborn Baby (singing voice)
- *Monster in a Box* (1992), Original Music Composer
- *Sphinxes Without Secrets* (1991), Actor
- *Laurie Anderson: The Collected Videos* (1991), as The Clones · Producer, Director, Art Direction
- *The Human Face* (1991), as Presenter
- *Carmen* (1991), Director
- *Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton* (1989), series, Music
- *Talk Normal* (1989), Writer, Producer
- *Swimming to Cambodia* (1987), Original Music Composer
- *Something Wild* (1986), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/something-wild.md)
- *What You Mean We?* (1986), Director, Writer
- *The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July* (1986), as Music
- *The World beyond the World* (1986), Music
- *Home of the Brave: A Film by Laurie Anderson* (1986), Director, Visual Effects, Music Producer, Writer
- *Alive from Off Center* (1985), series, as Host, Laurie Anderson & Clones · Writer, Director
- *Or D'Ur* (1984), Music
- *Set and Reset* (1983), Music
- *Closed Circuit* (1983), as Sängerin
- *No York City* (1983), Music
- *Supermann* (1982), Music
- *Songs for Lines/Songs for Waves* (1977), Director, Music, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Laurie Anderson](https://film.one/media/person/118809/gallery-c1601f0c92e8.png) Laurie Anderson — Studio Harcourt., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/LaurieAnderson-StudioHarcourt-1987.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Dame Patsy addresses the guests (2020)](https://film.one/media/person/118809/gallery-152b6c79b15f.jpg) Dame Patsy addresses the guests (2020) — New Zealand Government, Office of the Governor-General, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Gg-mar20-artsfestivalluncheon_008-2.jpg/1280px-Gg-mar20-artsfestivalluncheon_008-2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Laurie Anderson at Donaufestival, Krems, Austria (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/118809/gallery-3a4fa8e1ca59.jpg) Laurie Anderson at Donaufestival, Krems, Austria (2012) — Jeroen Komen from Utrecht, Netherlands, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Laura_Anderson_at_Donaufestival%2C_Krems%2C_Austria_%289450538781%29.jpg/1280px-Laura_Anderson_at_Donaufestival%2C_Krems%2C_Austria_%289450538781%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Laurie Anderson, avant-garde, experimental music composer, performance artist](https://film.one/media/person/118809/gallery-8a8a51afb8f4.jpg) Laurie Anderson, avant-garde, experimental music composer, performance artist — Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Laurie_Anderson%2C_avant-garde%2C_experimental_music_composer%2C_performance_artist_00163.jpg/1280px-Laurie_Anderson%2C_avant-garde%2C_experimental_music_composer%2C_performance_artist_00163.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Laurie Anderson performs "Homeland" in Milano, 2007](https://film.one/media/person/118809/gallery-9459872b13d2.jpg) Laurie Anderson performs "Homeland" in Milano, 2007 — vanz, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Laurie_Anderson_Homeland_3.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Laurie Anderson amidst the Kronos Quartet in Chicago after performing LANDFALL w:oratorio at the Harris Theater for the Arts located underneath the downtown/off (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/118809/gallery-dacb6932f0ef.jpg) Laurie Anderson amidst the Kronos Quartet in Chicago after performing LANDFALL w:oratorio at the Harris Theater for the Arts located underneath the downtown/off (2015) — mareklug Marek Wojciech Ługowski / User:mareklug, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Laurie_Anderson_amidst_the_Kronos_Quartet_in_Chicago_after_performing_LANDFALL_2015-03-17_20.53.41_%2816851029595%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Wolf Prize in Arts 2017: Wolf Prize in Arts (won)
- Guggenheim Fellowship 1982: Guggenheim Fellowship (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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