Cast & creator
Lee Ranaldo
Best known for Late Show with David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Late Night with Conan O'Brien
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.
Also known as: Lee Mark Ranaldo, Sonic Youth
72
film credits
5
television credits
59
1985–2026 · acting roles
6.5
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (77)
Showing 77 of 77 credits
Late Show with David Letterman
Self - Musical Guest
1993
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Musical Guest
2003
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Musical Guest
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self - Musical Guest
1992
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Self - Musical Guest
2009
Demonlover
Original Music Composer
2002
Daddy Longlegs
Stepfather
2010
Made in U.S.A.
Original Music Composer
1987
SubUrbia
Musician
1997
Things Behind the Sun
Original Music Composer
2001
The System
Compositor
2025
1991: The Year Punk Broke
Self
19921991: The Year Punk Broke
Additional Director of Photography
1992
Fragments of Paradise
Self
2022
365 Day Project
Self
2007
Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr.
Camera Operator
2021
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
Self
1995
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
Self
2005
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Music
2010
Velvet Suite
himself
2023
Omega
Self
2016
Free Tibet
Self - Sonic Youth
1998
Frisk
Original Music Composer
1996
Swans: Where Does a Body End?
Self
2019
New York Rock at the BBC
Self - Sonic Youth
2008
She Put Away Her Heart in the Fridge
Original Music Composer
2026
Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost
2004
DRIFT
Music
2005
Kill Your Idols
Self
2004
Salt Marsh
Music
2025
Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
Music
2018
Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
1995
Sex and Broadcasting
Self
2014
Hello Hello Hello: Lee Ranaldo, Electric Trim
Self
2017
(This Is Known as) The Blues Scale
Self
2004
Skeeno H.C. Rules
1991
Sonic Youth: Blood on the Beach
Self
1995
Submit to Me
1985
Sonic Youth: Gila Monster Jamboree
1985
From The Basement
Self - Sonic Youth
2009
Sonic Youth: Live in São Paulo 2000
2000
Sonic Youth: Full Set From The Basement
Self
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
2019
SY NYC 12/12/01: The Demonlover Sessions
Self
2019
Sonic Youth: 930 Club
1988
The Taxidermist
Original Music Composer
2019
Tibetan Freedom Concert
Self
1996
Sonic Youth: Live in 1991
2025
Peas and Carrots
Lee
2025Peas and Carrots
Songs
2025
12 O'Clock High: Volumes 1 & 2
2004
Sonic Youth: Live at Eurockéennes
2005
Put More Blood Into the Music
Himself
1988
Silver Rockets Kool Things - 20 Years of Sonic Youth
Self
2000
Noise
Self
2006Sonic Youth: NYC and Beyond
2019
Sublapse Video Mag 1
1986
Sonic Youth: Maquinaria Festival
2011
From the Basement
Self - Sonic Youth
2009
Sonic Youth: Live at Campo Pequeno Lisboa
1993
Sonic Youth: Koncertas Stan Brakhage Prisiminimui (April 12, 2003)
2003
Sonic Youth - Gila Monster Jamboree - January 5, 1985
Don't Bring A Dog
Himself
1997
Sonic Youth: Rocknacht - Live In Dusseldorf 1996
1996
Sonic Youth: Live at Soundstage
Performer
2003
We Still Have the Deep Black Night
Music Producer
2019
Sonic Youth: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
1998
Sonic Youth: Tibetan Freedom Concert 1996
Record Player: Christian Marclay
Himself
2000
Sonic Youth: Mississippi Nights, St. Louis
1986
Vinyl: An Unlikely History
Himself
Sonic Youth: Live at SWU Festival 2011
2011
Goo
Self
1991Goo
Writer
1991Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio
Himself
2014
Desolation Center
2018
Notebook
Director
1991