Thurston Moore

Career Overview

Thurston Moore has 131 screen credits in a career dating back to 1984. Signature works include Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music, Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985, Thick Air. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For: Acting
Gender: male
Known Credits: 131
Birth Date: 1958-07-25
Birth Place: Coral Gables, Florida, USA

Known For

Frequent Collaborators

Kim Gordon (3 collaborations)
Lee Ranaldo (3 collaborations)
Steve Shelley (2 collaborations)
Mark Ibold (2 collaborations)
Chuck D (1 collaborations)
Ani DiFranco (1 collaborations)
Michael Franti (1 collaborations)
Kathleen Hanna (1 collaborations)
Reebee Garafolo (1 collaborations)
Dave Marsh (1 collaborations)

Credits

actors (113 credits)
- The One. For New York.
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2026
- Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2026
- Sonic Youth: Full Set From The Basement
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2026
- Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2026
- Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2026
- The Last Critic
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2026
- The Best Summer
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2026
- Broken English
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2026
- The Wizard of the Kremlin
  Synthesizer Player
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2026
- Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2025
- Pavements
  Self (uncredited)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2025
- The Road to Ruane
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2024
- Uncropped
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2024
- Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2024
- Scala!!!
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2024
- Louder Than You Think
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2023
- Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2021
- The Sparks Brothers
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2021
- Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2021
- Thick Air
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2020
- Swans: Where Does a Body End?
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2019
- Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2019
- Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2019
- SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2019
- Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
  Self - Sonic Youth
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2019
- Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2019
- Desolation Center
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2018
- Teenage Superstars
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2017
- The Public Image Is Rotten
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2017
- Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2016
- Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2015
- Station to Station
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2014
- It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2014
- Lou Reed - Remembered
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2013
- I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2013
- Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2012
- Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2011
- Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2011
- Blank City
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2011
- Sonic Youth & The Black Keys: Live at Austin City Limits 2011
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2010
- Ecstatic Peace Archives
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2010
- Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2010
- No Wave - Underground '80: Berlin - New York
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2009
- Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGB
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2009
- From the Basement
  Self - Sonic Youth
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2009
- From The Basement
  Self - Sonic Youth
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2009
- New York Rock at the BBC
  Self - Sonic Youth
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2008
- I Need That Record!
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2008
- 365 Day Project
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2007
- Welcome to My Castle!
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2007
- Llik Your Idols
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2007
- You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2007
- Dinosaur Jr: Live in the Middle East
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2007
- Cut Shorts
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2006
- Kill Your Idols: More.
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2006
- Noise
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2006
- The Devil and Daniel Johnston
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2006
- Punk: Attitude
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2005
- Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2005
- Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2005
- We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2005
- Day Trip Maryanne
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2005
- Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2005
- Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2005
- (This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2004
- Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2004
- Kill Your Idols
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2004
- Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
  Performer
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2003
- Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2003
- Jimmy Kimmel Live!
  
  - Tracy Morgan, Shaun Alexander, Sonic Youth (2006) ... Self - Musical Guest actor actors
  
  2003
- Pavement: Slow Century
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2002
- Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 2002
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2002
- 25 Years of Punk
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2001
- Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music
  Self - Narrator (voice)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2001
- Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2000
- Record Player: Christian Marclay
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2000
- The Hardcore Collection
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2000
- Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2000
- Gilmore Girls
  
  - Partings (2006) ... Cool Dad Troubadour actor actors
  
  2000
- David S. Ware
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1999
- Turn of the Century
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1999
- Free Tibet
  Self - Sonic Youth
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1998
- Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1998
- Sonic Youth: Rockpalast 1998
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1998
- Don't Bring A Dog
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1997
- Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1996
- Tibetan Freedom Concert
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1996
- An Introduction to Harmolodics
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1995
- The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1995
- Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1995
- Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1995
- Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1995
- Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1994
- Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1994
- Changing Fashions
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1993
- Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1993
- Grunge Pedal
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1993
- Late Show with David Letterman
  
  - David Arquette, Aubrey Plaza, Thurston Moore (2011) ... Self - Musical Guest actor actors
  
  - Kathy Griffin, Stupid Human Tricks, Sonic Youth, an NBA Finals report by Phoenix Suns' Steve Nash (2009) ... Self - Musical Guest actor actors
  
  1993
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien
  
  - Heidi Klum, Justin Long, Sonic Youth (2006) ... Self - Musical Guest actor actors
  
  - Christina Applegate, Marc Maron, Sonic Youth (2004) ... Self - Musical Guest actor actors
  
  - Rich Hall, William Shatner, Sonic Youth (2000) ... Self - Musical Guest actor actors
  
  - Chris Penn, Colin Quinn, Sonic Youth (1996) ... Self - Musical Guest actor actors
  
  1993
- 1991: The Year Punk Broke
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1992
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
  
  - Show #2724 (2004) ... Self - Musical Guest actor actors
  
  1992
- Skeeno H.C. Rules
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1991
- Goo
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1991
- Rap Damage
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1991
- Notebook
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1991
- Weatherman '69
  Jeff Jones
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1989
- Sonic Youth: 930 Club
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1988
- Put More Blood Into the Music
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1988
- Lou Believers
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1988
- Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1986
- Sublapse Video Mag 1
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1986
- Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1985
- Submit to Me
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1985
production (2 credits)
- Black Lodge
  executive producer
  
  production
  
  2022
- Fire Music
  executive producer
  
  production
  
  2021
sound (11 credits)
- 2020
  music
  
  sound
  
  2021
- Street
  music
  
  sound
  
  2011
- Clean
  original music composer
  
  sound
  
  2011
- William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
  music
  
  sound
  
  2010
- I Was Jack Goldstein
  music
  
  sound
  
  2010
- Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
  music
  
  sound
  
  2007
- Things Behind the Sun
  original music composer
  
  sound
  
  2001
- Heavy
  original music composer
  
  sound
  
  1995
- Hippy Porn
  original music composer
  
  sound
  
  1991
- Made in U.S.A.
  original music composer
  
  sound
  
  1987
- Submit to Me Now
  music
  
  sound
  
  1987
directing (2 credits)
- Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost (The Videos: 1990-2002)
  director
  
  directing
  
  2004
- Goo
  director
  
  directing
  
  1991
art (1 credits)
- 1991: The Year Punk Broke
  title designer
  
  art
  
  1992
writing (2 credits)
- Goo
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1991
- Rock My Religion
  idea
  
  writing
  
  1984