Patricia Lee Smith is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and poet who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called the "punk poet laureate," Smith fused rock and poetry in her work.

KNOWN FOR

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2022
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2025
The Mike Douglas Show
1978
Saturday Night Live
1977
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2011
The Colbert Report
2010
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1997
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2007
Later... with Jools Holland
1997
Democracy Now!
2026
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
2015
Kulturplatz
2010

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
108
Writing
2
Producing
4
Sound
3
2026
Nova '78
as Self (archive footage)
2026
Tribeca 25
as Self
2026
Portrait of an Artist: Stephen Curry
as Self · unreleased
2026
Oliviero Toscani. Chi mi ama mi segua
2026
Democracy Now!
as Self
2025
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
as Self (archive footage)
2025
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self -Guest/Musical Guest
2024
Turn in the Wound
2024
One-Hit Wonders at the BBC: Volume Two
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Go to Izzy!
as Herself
2023
Chornobyl
as Self
2023
Ron Delsener Presents
as Self
2022
Patti Smith: Electric Poet
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
as Self
2022
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2021
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
as Self
2021
Now
as Self
2020
Wim Wenders, Desperado
as Self
2020
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
2019
WBCN and the American Revolution
as Self
2019
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
as The Punk Poet
2019
Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal
as Self
2018
Spheres
as Narrator (Voice)
2018
Kurt Everywhere
2018
Horses: Patti Smith and Her Band
as Herself
2018
Film catastrophe
as Self
2017
Song to Song
as Patti Smith
2017
Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives
as Self
2017
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
as Self
2017
Popular Voices at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
2017
The Defiant Ones
as Self
2016
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
as Self (voice) (uncredited)
2016
The Book of Conrad
2016
I Am La Scala
as Self
2016
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris
2015
U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015
2015
Girls in Bands at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
2014
Bruce Springsteen A MusiCares Tribute
as Self
2014
Three Stones for Jean Genet
2014
The 8th Floor
as Self
2014
Station to Station
2013
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
as Self
2013
Lou Reed - Remembered
2013
Sternstunde Musik
as Self
2012
Patti Smith - Live at Montreux 2005
as Herself
2012
West of Memphis
as Self – WM3 Supporter
2011
Sleepless Nights Stories
as Self
2011
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Cleo Alexander
2010
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
as Self
2010
Film Socialisme
as La chanteuse
2010
The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town
as Self
2010
The Colbert Report
2010
Kulturplatz
as Self
2010
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
as Self
2009
The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
as Self
2009
All Tomorrow's Parties
as Self
2009
Long for the City (Patti Smith in New York)
as herself
2009
Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
as Self
2008
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
as Self
2008
One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur
as Self
2008
New York Rock at the BBC
2008
The Passage Clock: For Walter Benjamin
as Narrator
2007
NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell
2007
365 Day Project
as Self
2007
You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson
as Self
2007
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
as Self
2007
Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
as Self
2007
The Early Show
as Self
2007
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2006
The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder: Punk & New Wave
as Self
2006
Patti Smith at Anthology Film Archives Febr. 19, 1998
as Self
2006
The Culture Show
as Self
2005
Rockpolitik
as Self
2003
R.E.M.: In View 1988-2003 (The Best of R.E.M.)
2003
Brian Wilson: On Tour
as Self
2003
The Big Empty
as Traveler
2002
What the Punk - An MVD Sampler
2002
Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You
as Self
2001
Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock
as Self
2001
25 Years of Punk
as Self (archive footage)
2000
Benjamin Smoke
as Herself
2000
Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration
as Self
1999
Laboratorium Anthology
1998
The Rugrats Movie
as Newborn Baby (singing voice)
1998
John Cale: An Exploration of His Life & Music
as Self (archive footage)
1997
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
as Self
1997
The Best of Sessions at West 54th: Vol. 1
as Self
1997
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Musical Guest
1997
Later... with Jools Holland
1996
New Adventures in Hi-Fi Stereophonic on Film
as Self
1996
Saturday Night Special
1996
NeXt
as Self
1995
Dancing Barefoot
as Self
1986
Women in Rock
as Self (archive footage)
1984
Burroughs: The Movie
as Self
1984
Rock My Religion
1980
No. 18: Mahagonny
as Self
1978
Still Moving/Patti Smith
as Herself
1978
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1977
Patti Smith Live in Stockholm 1976
as Self
1977
Saturday Night Live
as Self (uncredited)
1976
The Blank Generation
as Self
1976
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Musical Guest
1975
Night Lunch
as Self
1971
West Side Stories
1971
Robert Having His Nipple Pierced
as Narrator (uncredited)
1970
Chelsea Hotel
as Self
The Song of Hiawatha