Lee Ranaldo
Acting
1956-02-03 · Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, USA
Lee Mark Ranaldo (born February 3, 1956) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known as a co-founder of the rock band Sonic Youth. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Ranaldo at number 33 on its "Greatest Guitarists of All Time" list. In May 2012, Spin published a staff-selected top 100 guitarist list, ranking Ranaldo and his Sonic Youth bandmate Thurston Moore together at number 1.
Filmography
Peas and Carrots
2025 · Movie
Salt Marsh
2025 · Movie
The System
2025 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
2025 · Movie
Velvet Suite
2023 · Movie
Fragments of Paradise
2022 · Movie
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
2021 · Movie
We Still Have the Deep Black Night
2019 · Movie
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
2019 · Movie
Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
2019 · Movie
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
2019 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
2019 · Movie
The Taxidermist
2019 · Movie
Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
2018 · Movie
Desolation Center
2018 · Movie
Hello Hello Hello: Lee Ranaldo, Electric Trim
2017 · Movie
Omega
2016 · Movie
Sex and Broadcasting
2014 · Movie
Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio
2014 · Movie
The Hardcore Collection
2012 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
2011 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
2011 · Movie
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010 · Movie
Daddy Longlegs
2010 · Movie
From The Basement
2009 · Movie
From the Basement
2009 · Movie
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009 · Series
New York Rock at the BBC
2008 · Movie
365 Day Project
2007 · Movie
Noise
2006 · Movie
DRIFT
2005 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
2005 · Movie
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
2005 · Movie
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
2004 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost (The Videos: 1990-2002)
2004 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
2004 · Movie
12 O'Clock High: Volumes 1 & 2
2004 · Movie
Kill Your Idols
2004 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
2003 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2003 · Movie
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Series
Demonlover
2002 · Movie
Things Behind the Sun
2001 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
2000 · Movie
Record Player: Christian Marclay
2000 · Movie
Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
2000 · Movie
Free Tibet
1998 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
1998 · Movie
SubUrbia
1997 · Movie
Don't Bring A Dog
1997 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
1996 · Movie
Tibetan Freedom Concert
1996 · Movie
Frisk
1996 · Movie
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
1995 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
1995 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach
1995 · Movie
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Series
Late Show with David Letterman
1993 · Series
Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
1993 · Movie
1991: The Year Punk Broke
1992 · Movie
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · Series
Skeeno H.C. Rules
1991 · Movie
Goo
1991 · Movie
Notebook
1991 · Movie
Sonic Youth: 930 Club
1988 · Movie
Put More Blood Into the Music
1988 · Movie
Made in U.S.A.
1987 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
1986 · Movie
Sublapse Video Mag 1
1986 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
1985 · Movie
Submit to Me
1985 · Movie
Sonic Youth: Full Set From The Basement
Movie
Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
Movie
Vinyl: An Unlikely History
Movie
Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
Movie