Laurie Anderson

Biography

Laura Phillips Anderson is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects.

Known For

Saturday Night Live

Self - Musical Guest

John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It

Self

Space Ghost Coast to Coast

Classic Albums

Self

Home of the Brave: A Film by Laurie Anderson

Self - Keyboards, Vocals / Fenway Bergamot / The Voice of Reason

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

Self

Free for All: The Public Library

Self

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2025	Thank You Very Much	Self
2025	Free for All: The Public Library	Self
2025	Why I Love The Stars	Self
2025	Laurie Anderson Saint Joan of Arc Basilica, Paris
2024	Eno	Self
2023	Garland Jeffreys: The King of in Between	Self
2023	Buke & Gase	Self
2021	Sisters with Transistors	Narrator (voice)
2020	The Business of Thought: A Recorded History of Artists Space	Self
2020	Symphony Of The Invisible	Self (voice)
2018	Feminists: What Were They Thinking?	Self
2018	Call Us Ishmael	Herself
2017	Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait	Self
2016	Yoko Ono Lennon's Courage Awards 2016: Laurie Anderson, Mohammad el Gharani, Eileen Boxer, RoseLee Goldberg, LoftOpera
2015	Heart of a Dog	Narrator
2012	BAM150	Self
2012	Classic Albums: Peter Gabriel - So	Self
2011	Brainwave	Self
2010	William S. Burroughs: A Man Within	Self
2010	Homeland: The Story of the Lark
2010	Music	Self
2008	A Not So Silent Night	Self
2007	Why Birds Sing	Herself
2006	Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film	Narrator
2005	John Peel's Record Box	Self
2002	McLuhan's Wake	Narrator
2002	The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'	Self
1998	The Rugrats Movie	Newborn Baby (singing voice)
1993	The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros	Herself
1991	Sphinxes Without Secrets
1991	Laurie Anderson: The Collected Videos	The Clones
1991	The Human Face	Presenter
1990	One World, One Voice	Self
1990	John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It	Self
1989	Heavy Petting	Self
1989	Talk Normal	Herself
1986	The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July
1986	Home of the Brave: A Film by Laurie Anderson	Self - Keyboards, Vocals / Fenway Bergamot / The Voice of Reason
1986	What You Mean We?	Herself
1985	All Star Video	Self (archive footage)
1984	Good Morning, Mr. Orwell	Self
1983	System Without Shadow	Sängerin
1981	14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s	Herself
1977	Songs for Lines/Songs for Waves

Year	TV Show	Role
2015	Track Stories	Self
2011	TITANIC 4DVD
1997	Classic Albums	Self
1994	Space Ghost Coast to Coast
1985	Alive from Off Center	Host
1985	Alive from Off Center	Laurie Anderson & Clones
1983	Bei Bio	Self
1979	Okay	Self
1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Musical Guest