Acting credits
52
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Lee Ranaldo
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
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Movies: 66Series: 0Crew credits: 17
TMDB ID: 101843
IMDb ID: nm0007145
Known for: Acting
Born: February 3, 1956
Age: 70
Place of birth: Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1985 - 2025
Years active: 41
Average TMDB rating: 6.12
Wikidata: Q352087
Also known as
Lee Mark Ranaldo • Sonic Youth
Other jobs
Original Music Composer (5)Music (4)Additional Director of Photography (1)Camera Operator (1)Compositor (1)Director (1)Music Producer (1)Musician (1)
Biography
Lee Mark Ranaldo (born February 3, 1956) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known as a co-founder of the rock band Sonic Youth. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Ranaldo at number 33 on its "Greatest Guitarists of All Time" list. In May 2012, Spin published a staff-selected top 100 guitarist list, ranking Ranaldo and his Sonic Youth bandmate Thurston Moore together at number 1.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Lee Ranaldo.
Peas and Carrots
as Lee
2025 Movie
Salt Marsh
Music
2025 Movie
7.0
The System
Compositor
2025 Movie
Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
2025 Movie
5.0
Velvet Suite
as himself
2023 Movie
6.5
Fragments of Paradise
as Self
2022 Movie
7.8
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
Camera Operator
2021 Movie
5.1
We Still Have the Deep Black Night
Music Producer
2019 Movie
7.9
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
as Self
2019 Movie
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
as Self
2019 Movie
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
2019 Movie
The Taxidermist
Original Music Composer
2019 Movie
Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
Music
2018 Movie
9.3
Desolation Center
2018 Movie
6.7
Hello Hello Hello: Lee Ranaldo, Electric Trim
as Self
2017 Movie
6.3
Omega
as Self
2016 Movie
6.0
Sex and Broadcasting
as Self
2014 Movie
7.7
The Hardcore Collection
as (archive footage)
2012 Movie
Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
2011 Movie
Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
2011 Movie
6.5
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Music
2010 Movie
6.6
Daddy Longlegs
as Stepfather
2010 Movie
6.0
From the Basement
as Self - Sonic Youth
2009 Movie
6.5
New York Rock at the BBC
as Self - Sonic Youth
2008 Movie