Personal Info
Birthday
February 3, 1956
Place of Birth
Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, USA
Known For
Acting
Lee Ranaldo
Biography
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.
Directed Movies (2)
Acting Filmography (56)
0.0
Peas and Carrots
Movie2025
0.0
Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
Movie2025
No Backdrop
5.0
Velvet Suite
Movie2023
6.5
Fragments of Paradise
Movie2022
7.9
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
Movie2019
No Backdrop
10.0
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
Movie2019
0.0
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
Movie2019
9.3
Desolation Center
Movie2018
6.7
Hello Hello Hello: Lee Ranaldo, Electric Trim
Movie2017
6.3
Omega
Movie2016
6.0
Sex and Broadcasting
Movie2014
7.7
The Hardcore Collection
Movie2012
0.0
Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
Movie2011
0.0
Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
Movie2011
6.6
Daddy Longlegs
Movie2010
No Backdrop
6.0
From the Basement
Movie2009
6.0
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
TV Series2009
No Backdrop
6.5
New York Rock at the BBC
Movie2008
10.0
365 Day Project
Movie2007
No Backdrop
4.8
Noise
Movie2006
4.5
Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
Movie2005
6.7
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
Movie2005
7.0
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
Movie2004
6.2
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
Movie2004
No Backdrop
0.0
12 O'Clock High: Volumes 1 & 2
Movie2004
7.5
Kill Your Idols
Movie2004
0.0
Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
Movie2003
No Backdrop
5.0
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
Movie2003
5.3
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV Series2003
0.0
Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
Movie2000
No Backdrop
0.0
Record Player: Christian Marclay
Movie2000
0.0
Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
Movie2000
8.0
Free Tibet
Movie1998
0.0
Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
Movie1998
0.0
Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
Movie1996
0.0
Tibetan Freedom Concert
Movie1996
No Backdrop
4.0
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
Movie1995
0.0
Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
Movie1995
0.0
Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach
Movie1995
7.3
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV Series1993
6.4
Late Show with David Letterman
TV Series1993
0.0
Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
Movie1993
6.8
1991: The Year Punk Broke
Movie1992
5.4
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV Series1992
No Backdrop
0.0
Skeeno H.C. Rules
Movie1991
5.7
Goo
Movie1991
0.0
Sonic Youth: 930 Club
Movie1988
No Backdrop
7.8
Put More Blood Into the Music
Movie1988
0.0
Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
Movie1986
No Backdrop
8.0
Sublapse Video Mag 1
Movie1986
5.1
Submit to Me
Movie1986
0.0
Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
Movie1985
No Backdrop
0.0
Vinyl: An Unlikely History
MovieN/A
No Backdrop
10.0
Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
MovieN/A
0.0
Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
MovieN/A
No Backdrop
0.0
Sonic Youth Full Set From The Basement
MovieN/A