Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28, 1953) is an American musician, vocalist, artist, record producer, video director and actress. She is lead singer, bass and guitarist in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, and in Free Kitten with Julia Cafritz (of Pussy Galore). Gordon has collaborated with a number of musicians, including Ikue Mori, DJ Olive, William Winant, Lydia Lunch, Courtney Love, Alan Licht and Chris Corsano. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

KNOWN FOR

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2026
Late Show with David Letterman
1994
Saturday Night Live
2013
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2006
Gilmore Girls
2006
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1996
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2004
Gossip Girl
2009
Later... with Jools Holland
1992
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009
Portlandia
2014
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
2025

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
94
Directing
6
Writing
2
Producing
1
Sound
11
2026
The Best Summer
as Self
2026
Marc by Sofia
as Self
2026
Avec Kim
as Kim
2026
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Musical Guest
2025
Bad Painter
as Interviewer
2025
The Chronology of Water
as Photographer
2025
FireAid Benefit Concert
as Self
2025
Pavements
as Self (uncredited)
2025
Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
2025
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
as Self - Musical Guest
2025
The Grammys
as Self
2024
Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
2023
12341 Branford St. Sun Valley
as Self
2022
Picture Window
as Kim Gordon
2022
Women Who Rock
as Self
2021
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
as herself
2020
Los Angeles June 6
as Self
2019
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
2019
Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
2019
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
as Self
2018
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
as Corky
2017
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
as Self
2017
Party Legends
2016
Ed Ruscha: Buildings and Words
as Self
2015
The Nightmare
as Teacher
2015
Girls in Bands at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
2014
Portlandia
as Kim Gordon
2013
The Punk Singer
as Self
2013
Une Danse Des Bouffons
as Maria Martins
2013
I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
2013
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
2012
The Hardcore Collection
as (archive footage)
2012
A Proposal for A Dance
as Self
2011
Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
2011
Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
2010
Rappin' With The Rickster
as Self
2010
Sonic Youth & The Black Keys: Live at Austin City Limits 2011
2009
From the Basement
as Self - Sonic Youth
2009
From The Basement
as Self - Sonic Youth
2009
Gossip Girl
as Kim Gordon
2009
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Musical Guest
2008
New York Rock at the BBC
as Self - Sonic Youth
2007
I'm Not There
as Carla Hendricks
2007
Boarding Gate
as Kay
2007
Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East
as Herself
2007
365 Day Project
as Self
2007
Welcome to My Castle!
as Self
2006
Cut Shorts
2006
Noise
as Self
2006
Her Noise - The Making Of
2006
Gilmore Girls
as Cool Mom Troubadour
2006
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Musical Guest
2005
Last Days
as Record Executive
2005
Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
2004
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
2004
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
as Self
2004
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
as Self - Musical Guest
2003
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2003
Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
as Performer
2001
Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock
as Self
2000
Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
as Self
2000
Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
1998
Free Tibet
as Self - Sonic Youth
1998
Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
1996
Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
1996
Tibetan Freedom Concert
as Self
1996
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Musical Guest
1995
Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach
as Self
1995
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
as Self
1995
X-Girl
as interviewer
1995
Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
1994
No Alternative Girls
as Herself
1994
Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
as Self
1994
Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1994
Late Show with David Letterman
as Self - Musical Guest
1993
Grunge Pedal
1993
Changing Fashions
1993
Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
1992
1991: The Year Punk Broke
as Self
1992
Later... with Jools Holland
1991
Notebook
1991
Goo
as Self
1991
Skeeno H.C. Rules
1989
Weatherman '69
as Bernadine Dohrn
1988
Put More Blood Into the Music
as Herself
1988
Lou Believers
as Herself
1988
Sonic Youth: 930 Club
1986
Sublapse Video Mag 1
1986
Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
1985
Submit to Me
1985
Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
Sonic Youth: Full Set From The Basement
as Self