Personal Info
Birthday
July 25, 1958
Place of Birth
Coral Gables, Florida, USA
Known For
Acting
Thurston Moore
Biography
Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label. Moore was ranked 34th in Rolling Stone's 2004 edition of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time." In May 2012, Spin published a staff-selected top 100 ranking Moore and his Sonic Youth bandmate Lee Ranaldo together on number 1.
Acting Filmography (109)
No Backdrop
0.0
The Last Critic
Movie2026
0.0
The Best Summer
Movie2026
7.3
Broken English
Movie2026
6.5
The Wizard of the Kremlin
Movie2026
0.0
Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
Movie2025
6.8
Pavements
Movie2025
0.0
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
Movie2025
0.0
The Road to Ruane
Movie2024
8.3
Uncropped
Movie2024
0.0
Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
Movie2024
7.8
Scala!!!
Movie2024
No Backdrop
6.0
Louder Than You Think
Movie2023
7.8
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
Movie2021
7.4
Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson
TV Series2021
7.4
The Sparks Brothers
Movie2021
6.6
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
Movie2021
6.8
Thick Air
Movie2020
7.9
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
Movie2019
7.0
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
Movie2019
No Backdrop
10.0
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
Movie2019
6.7
Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
Movie2019
7.8
Punk
TV Series2019
0.0
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
Movie2019
9.3
Desolation Center
Movie2018
7.5
Teenage Superstars
Movie2017
7.4
The Public Image Is Rotten
Movie2017
6.3
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
Movie2016
7.0
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
Movie2015
No Backdrop
6.8
Station to Station
Movie2014
No Backdrop
0.0
It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline
Movie2014
No Backdrop
6.5
Lou Reed - Remembered
Movie2013
No Backdrop
7.0
I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
Movie2013
2.0
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
Movie2012
7.7
The Hardcore Collection
Movie2012
0.0
Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
Movie2011
0.0
Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
Movie2011
7.5
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
Movie2011
6.8
Blank City
Movie2011
7.3
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
Movie2010
No Backdrop
8.0
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
Movie2009
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
No Backdrop
6.5
I Need That Record!
Movie2008
10.0
365 Day Project
Movie2007
No Backdrop
0.0
Welcome to My Castle!
Movie2007
No Backdrop
4.0
Llik Your Idols
Movie2007
6.4
You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson
Movie2007
0.0
Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East
Movie2007
No Backdrop
8.0
Cut Shorts
Movie2006
No Backdrop
4.8
Noise
Movie2006
7.7
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Movie2006
7.1
Punk: Attitude
Movie2005
4.5
Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
Movie2005
7.0
Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind
Movie2005
6.7
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
Movie2005
No Backdrop
0.0
Day Trip Maryanne
Movie2005
No Backdrop
0.0
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
Movie2005
7.0
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
Movie2004
6.2
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
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
7.6
Pavement: Slow Century
Movie2002
No Backdrop
7.0
25 Years of Punk
Movie2001
No Backdrop
0.0
Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music
Movie2001
0.0
Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
Movie2000
7.9
Gilmore Girls
TV Series2000
No Backdrop
0.0
Record Player: Christian Marclay
Movie2000
0.0
The Hardcore Collection
Movie2000
0.0
Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
Movie2000
No Backdrop
0.0
David S. Ware
Movie1999
No Backdrop
0.0
Turn of the Century
Movie1999
8.0
Free Tibet
Movie1998
0.0
Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
Movie1998
7.7
Classic Albums
TV Series1997
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
7.0
Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
Movie1995
0.0
Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
Movie1995
0.0
Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach
Movie1995
7.6
Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!
Movie1994
No Backdrop
7.5
Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
Movie1994
8.3
Hi Octane
TV Series1994
7.8
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
TV Series1994
7.3
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV Series1993
6.4
Late Show with David Letterman
TV Series1993
0.0
Changing Fashions
Movie1993
0.0
Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
Movie1993
No Backdrop
0.0
Grunge Pedal
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
No Backdrop
0.0
Rap Damage
Movie1991
No Backdrop
0.0
Notebook
Movie1991
10.0
Weatherman '69
Movie1989
0.0
Sonic Youth: 930 Club
Movie1988
No Backdrop
7.8
Put More Blood Into the Music
Movie1988
No Backdrop
0.0
Lou Believers
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
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