Lee Ranaldo
Acting
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.
As actor 60
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009
Daddy Longlegs
2010
From The Basement
2009
Velvet Suite
2023
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
1995
Free Tibet
1998
Omega
2016
1991: The Year Punk Broke
1992
Submit to Me
1985
Fragments of Paradise
2022
Sonic Youth: 930 Club
1988
365 Day Project
2007
Sex and Broadcasting
2014
From the Basement
2009
Hello Hello Hello: Lee Ranaldo, Electric Trim
2017
Tibetan Freedom Concert
1996
Noise
2006
Record Player: Christian Marclay
2000
New York Rock at the BBC
2008
Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
1995
Sonic Youth: Full Set From The Basement
Kill Your Idols
2004
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
2004
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
2005
Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach
1995
Goo
1991
Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
2019
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
2004
Peas and Carrots
2025
Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
2000
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
2019
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
2019
Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
2003
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2003
Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
2011
Desolation Center
2018
Put More Blood Into the Music
1988
Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
2000
Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
1985
Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
2025
Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
1996
Sublapse Video Mag 1
1986
Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
2005
Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
1986
12 O'Clock High: Volumes 1 & 2
2004
Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio
2014
Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
2019
Don't Bring A Dog
1997
Skeeno H.C. Rules
1991
Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
1998
Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
1993
Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
2011
Vinyl: An Unlikely History
The Hardcore Collection
2012
On the crew 19
Demonlover
2002
SubUrbia
1997
The System
2025
She Put Away Her Heart in the Fridge
2026
Things Behind the Sun
2001
Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
2018
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
2021
Frisk
1996
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost (The Videos: 1990-2002)
2004
1991: The Year Punk Broke
1992
Salt Marsh
2025
The Taxidermist
2019
Made in U.S.A.
1987
DRIFT
2005
We Still Have the Deep Black Night
2019
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010
Goo
1991
Peas and Carrots
2025
Notebook
1991