Patricia Lee Smith is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and poet who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called the "punk poet laureate," Smith fused rock and poetry in her work.
2026Portrait of an Artist: Stephen CurryMovieas Self
2026Tribeca 25Movieas Self
2026Nova '78Movieas Self (archive footage)
2026Little, Big, and FarMovieExecutive Producer
2026Oliviero Toscani. Chi mi ama mi seguaMovie
2025Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL MusicMovieas Self (archive footage)
2024Go to Izzy!Movieas Herself
2024Turn in the WoundMovieOriginal Music Composer
2024One-Hit Wonders at the BBC: Volume TwoMovieas Self (archive footage)
2023Joan Baez: I Am a NoiseMovieExecutive Producer
2023Ron Delsener PresentsMovieas Self
2023ChornobylMovieas Self
2022Werner Herzog: Radical DreamerMovieas Self
2022Patti Smith: Electric PoetMovieas Self (archive footage)
20212021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction CeremonyMovieas Self
2021NowMovieas Self
2020Wim Wenders, DesperadoMovieas Self
2019Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll AnimalMovieas Self2019Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin ScorseseMovieas The Punk Poet
2019WBCN and the American RevolutionMovieas Self
2018Film catastropheMovieas Self
2018Horses: Patti Smith and Her BandMovieas Herself
2018Kurt EverywhereMovie
2018SpheresMovieas Narrator (Voice)
2017Popular Voices at the BBCTV showas Self (archive footage) · 3 episodes2017Ex Libris: The New York Public LibraryMovieas Self2017The Defiant OnesTV showas Self · 2 episodes2017Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our LivesMovieas Self2017Song to SongMovieas Patti Smith
2016I Am La ScalaMovieas Self
2016The Book of ConradMovie2016Mapplethorpe: Look at the PicturesMovieas Self (voice) (uncredited)
2016U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in ParisMovie
2015U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015Movie
2015Girls in Bands at the BBCMovieas Self (archive footage)2015The Late Show with Stephen ColbertTV showas Self -Guest/Musical Guest · 1 episodes
2015CountingMovieExecutive Producer
2014Station to StationMovie
2014The 8th FloorMovieas Self
2014Bruce Springsteen A MusiCares TributeMovieas Self
2014NoahMovieSongs2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonTV showas Self - Guest · 3 episodes
2014Three Stones for Jean GenetMovieScreenplay
2013Lou Reed - RememberedMovie
2013Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'Movieas Self
2013Vivre avec CamusMovieas Patti Smith2012West of MemphisMovieas Self – WM3 Supporter
2012Patti Smith - Live at Montreux 2005Movieas Herself
2012Museum HoursMovieExecutive Producer
2011Sleepless Nights StoriesMovieas Self2010William S. Burroughs: A Man WithinMovieas Self
2010The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of TownMovieas Self2010Film SocialismeMovieas La chanteuse
2009The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ConcertsMovieas Self
2009Long for the City (Patti Smith in New York)Movieas herself · Screenplay
2009Burning Down the House: The Story of CBGBMovieas Self
2009All Tomorrow's PartiesMovieas Self
2008The Passage Clock: For Walter BenjaminMovieas Narrator
2008New York Rock at the BBCMovie
2008One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big SurMovieas Self
2008Patti Smith: Dream of LifeMovieas Self
2008The African Twin TowersMovieas Self
2007365 Day ProjectMovieas Self
2007NY77: The Coolest Year in HellMovie
2007You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky EricksonMovieas Self2007Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a LensMovieas Self
2007Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert MapplethorpeMovieas Self
2006Patti Smith at Anthology Film Archives Febr. 19, 1998Movieas Self
2006The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder: Punk & New WaveMovieas Self
2005RockpolitikTV showas Self · 1 episodes2005The Colbert ReportTV show1 episodes
2004The Culture ShowTV showas Self · 1 episodes
2004KulturplatzTV showas Self · 1 episodes
2003R.E.M.: In View 1988-2003 (The Best of R.E.M.)Movie2003The Big EmptyMovieas Traveler
2003Brian Wilson: On TourMovieas Self
2002What the Punk - An MVD SamplerMovie
2002Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants YouMovieas Self2001Law & Order: Criminal IntentTV showas Cleo Alexander · 1 episodes
200125 Years of PunkMovieas Self (archive footage)
2001Democracy Now!TV showas Self · 3 episodes
2000Aqua Teen Hunger ForceTV showSongs · 1 episodes
2000Benjamin SmokeMovieas Herself
2000Arista Records' 25th Anniversary CelebrationMovieas Self
1999The Early ShowTV showas Self · 1 episodes
1998John Cale: An Exploration of His Life & MusicMovieas Self (archive footage)1998The Rugrats MovieMovieas Newborn Baby (singing voice)
1997The Best of Sessions at West 54th: Vol. 1Movieas Self
1997Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a SpiritMovieas Self
1996New Adventures in Hi-Fi Stereophonic on FilmMovieas Self1993Late Night with Conan O'BrienTV showas Self - Musical Guest · 3 episodes
1992Later... with Jools HollandTV show3 episodes1992The Tonight Show with Jay LenoTV show1 episodes
1986Women in RockMovieas Self (archive footage)1984Burroughs: The MovieMovieas Self
1984Rock My ReligionMovie
1978Still Moving/Patti SmithMovieas Herself
1977Patti Smith Live in Stockholm 1976Movieas Self
1976The Blank GenerationMovieas Self
1975Night LunchMovieas Self1975Saturday Night LiveTV showas Self (uncredited) · as Self - Musical Guest · 1 episodes
1971West Side StoriesMovie
1970Chelsea HotelMovieas Self
1961The Mike Douglas ShowTV showas Self · 1 episodes
—The Song of HiawathaMovie