Yoko Ono is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon. Ono brought feminism to the forefront through her music which prefigured New Wave music (whether she was a direct influence is still debated). She is a supporter of gay rights and is known for her philanthropic contributions to the arts, peace and AIDS outreach programs.

KNOWN FOR

Saturday Night Live
1981
The View
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
2003
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2003
The South Bank Show
1999
The Dick Cavett Show
1971
Champs-Elysées
1988
Mad About You
1995
Later... with Jools Holland
2009
Intimate Portrait
1995
American Masters
2007

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
166
Directing
24
Writing
9
Producing
16
Camera
1
Editing
1
Sound
6
Crew
8
2026
Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC
as Self
2026
John Lennon: The Last Interview
2025
One to One: John & Yoko
as Self (archive footage)
2025
Borrowed Time: Lennon's Last Decade
as Self (archive footage)
2025
The Beatles - Free As A Bird: A Song Reborn
as Self (archive footage)
2025
The Beatles: The Sound of a Revolution
as Self
2025
David Frost Vs
as self (archive footage)
2024
Daytime Revolution
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Beatles '64
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Elton John: Never Too Late
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
as Self (archive footage)
2023
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World
as Self (archive footage)
2022
The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Infamous Crime Scenes: John Lennon
2021
Parkinson at 50
as Self (archive footage)
2021
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
as Self (archive footage)
2021
The Beatles: Get Back
as Self
2020
Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon
as Self (archive footage)
2020
Zappa
as Self (archive footage)
2020
Tapes
2020
Lennon's Last Weekend
as Self (archive footage)
2019
Other Music
as Self
2019
Killing John Lennon
as Self (archive footage)
2019
The Last 24 Hours: John Lennon
as Self
2018
Isle of Dogs
as Assistant-Scientist Yoko-ono (voice)
2018
George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus
as Self
2018
John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky
as Self
2018
Why Are We Creative?
as Self
2017
I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance
as Self
2017
It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond
as Self (archive footage)
2017
Kyoko
as Self (archive footage)
2017
How the Beatles Changed the World
as Self (archive footage)
2016
Stupor Mundi: Livre 2, Les Hommes qui mangèrent la montagne
as Self (archive footage)
2016
Deconstructing the Beatles' White Album
as Self (archive footage)
2016
Yoko Ono Lennon's Courage Awards 2016: Laurie Anderson, Mohammad el Gharani, Eileen Boxer, RoseLee Goldberg, LoftOpera
2016
WAR IS OVER! (If You Want It)
as Self
2016
Andy Warhol, Fluorescent
as (archive footage)
2015
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
as Self (archive footage)
2015
Bad Girls of Japan
2015
The Last Lennon Interview
as Self (archive footage)
2015
The Beatles 1+
2014
The Term. Beginning of a Big Story
as Self (uncredited)
2014
The Last Impresario
as Self
2013
Rock 'N' Roll Exposed: The Photography of Bob Gruen
as Self
2013
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
as Self (archive footage)
2013
Silver Spoon
as Aki's Grandmother (voice)
2013
Brisant
as Self
2012
Arts & Crafts Spectacular #2
as (voice)
2012
Inventing David Geffen
as Self
2012
John Cage: Journeys in Sound
as Self
2011
Sleepless Nights Stories
as Self
2011
Re: Maciunas and Fluxus
2011
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
as Herself (archive footage)
2011
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
as Self
2010
Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?)
as Self
2010
LennoNYC
as Self
2010
John Lennon: Love Is All You Need
as Self (archive footage)
2010
Ugly Beauty
as Self
2010
Music
as Self
2010
The Day John Lennon Died
as Self
2010
The Beatles: The Complete Story
as Self (Archive Footage)
2009
Project 9: The Making of The Beatles: Rock Band
as Self
2009
Later... with Jools Holland
2008
The Universe of Keith Haring
as Self
2008
Classic Albums: John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
as Self
2008
All Together Now
as Self
2008
Classic Albums
as Self
2008
The 60s: The Beatles Decade
2007
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
as Self
2007
365 Day Project
as Self
2007
American Masters
as Self
2006
John Lennon & Yoko Ono: Give Peace A Song
as as Herself
2006
Torino 2006 Olympic Opening Ceremony
2006
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
as Self
2006
To John With Love
as Self
2006
John & Yoko Bed-In
as Self
2006
Warhol and Maciunas
as Self
2006
Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master
as Self
2006
Follow My Voice: With the Music of Hedwig
as Self
2006
Greasy Rider
2005
Pink Floyd London '66-'67
as Self (uncredited)
2005
Girls and Boys - Sex and British Pop
as Self
2005
Kulturplatz
as Self
2004
Art & the 60s
2004
Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair
as Self (archive footage)
2004
Beatles Biggest Secrets
as Self
2003
Inside John Lennon - Unauthorized
as Self (archive footage)
2003
Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon
as Self (archive footage)
2003
Beatles: The Journey
as Self (archive footage)
2003
Imagine Imagine
as Self
2003
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
as Self
2003
The View
as Self
2003
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2003
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2002
Hanratty: The Whole Truth
as Self (archive footage)
2001
Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock
as Self
2001
Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words & Music
2001
Wingspan
as Self (archive footage)
2001
Sternstunde Kunst
as Self
2000
Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album
as Self
2000
John & Yoko's Year of Peace
as Self
2000
Behind the Music
as Self
1999
The South Bank Show
1997
Happy Birthday to John
as Self
1996
The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
as Self - Vocal
1995
An Introduction to Harmolodics
1995
"Topless Cellist" Charlotte Moorman
1995
Intimate Portrait
as Self (archive footage)
1995
Mad About You
as Yoko Ono
1994
Jonas in the Desert
as Self
1993
The Revenge of the Dead Indians
as Herself
1993
The Misfits - 30 Years of Fluxus
as Self
1992
The John Lennon Video Collection
1992
Rolling Stone 25: The MTV Special
as Self
1992
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 2: Assassination in the 20th Century
1990
John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It
as Self
1990
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1990
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections
as Self
1990
Lennon: A Tribute
1990
The Word
1988
Imagine: John Lennon
as Self
1988
Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues
as Self
1988
Champs-Elysées
as Self
1987
I Am Not a Freak
as Self
1986
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
as Self (archive footage)
1986
The John Lennon Sketchbook
as Self
1986
John Lennon: One to One Concert Live in New York
as Self (archive footage)
1986
Vain Glory
as Yōko Ono
1986
An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
1984
Yoko Ono: Then and Now
as Self
1981
The Killing of America
as Self (archive footage)
1981
Saturday Night Live
as Self
1979
Flux-Concert
as Self
1977
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
as Self
1976
Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol
1972
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
as Self
1972
Imagine
as Self
1972
John Lennon - Imagine
1972
The One to One Concert
as Self
1971
Sweet Toronto
as Self
1971
Brazil in Cannes
1971
Up Your Legs Forever
as Self - Last Legs(uncredited)
1971
Frank Zappa, John Lennon & Yoko Ono: At Fillmore East
1971
Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally
as Self
1971
Dynamite Chicken
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1971
Yoko and John Party
as Self
1971
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1970
Apotheosis
1970
Freedom
as Woman
1970
Rome Is Burning: Portrait of Shirley Clarke
as Yoko Ono
1970
Let It Be
as Self (uncredited)
1969
The Beatles: Something
as Self
1969
24 Hours: The World of John and Yoko
as Self
1969
Bed Peace
as Self
1968
Two Virgins
1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self
1966
No. 4
as Self
1966
Eyeblink
as Self
1965
Satan's Bed
as Ito
1965
Cut Piece
as Herself
1965
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
as Self
1964
Some Young People
as herself
1964
Hi-Red Centre Shelter Plan