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 59
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009
Daddy Longlegs
2010
Omega
2016
Hello Hello Hello: Lee Ranaldo, Electric Trim
2017
1991: The Year Punk Broke
1992
Sex and Broadcasting
2014
Velvet Suite
2023
Submit to Me
1986
Tibetan Freedom Concert
1996
Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
1995
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
2019
365 Day Project
2007
Free Tibet
1998
Peas and Carrots
2025
Fragments of Paradise
2022
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
2004
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
2005
Goo
1991
Sonic Youth Full Set From The Basement
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
2019
Record Player: Christian Marclay
2000
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
1995
Kill Your Idols
2004
Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
1985
Desolation Center
2018
Sonic Youth: 930 Club
1988
Noise
2006
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
2004
Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
2011
From the Basement
2009
New York Rock at the BBC
2008
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
2019
Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
2005
Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
1996
Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach
1995
Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
1986
Put More Blood Into the Music
1988
Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
2000
Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio
2014
Skeeno H.C. Rules
1991
Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
2000
Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
2025
Sublapse Video Mag 1
1986
Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
2003
Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
Vinyl: An Unlikely History
12 O'Clock High: Volumes 1 & 2
2004
Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
1993
Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
2019
Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
2011
Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
1998
Don't Bring A Dog
1997
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2003
Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
The Hardcore Collection
2012
On the crew 18
SubUrbia
1997
The System
2025
Demonlover
2002
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010
The Taxidermist
2019
1991: The Year Punk Broke
1992
Things Behind the Sun
2001
DRIFT
2005
Frisk
1996
Made in U.S.A.
1987
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
2021
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost (The Videos: 1990-2002)
2004
Salt Marsh
2025
Peas and Carrots
2025
Goo
1991
We Still Have the Deep Black Night
2019
Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
2018
Notebook
1991