Kathleen Hanna

Biography

Kathleen Hanna is an American musician, artist, feminist activist, and punk zine writer. In the early-to mid-1990s she was the lead singer of feminist punk band Bikini Kill, before fronting Le Tigre in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In 1998, Hanna released a lo-fi solo album under the name Julie Ruin and since 2010, has been working on a project called The Julie Ruin.

Known For

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson

Punk

King of Drag

The Best Summer

2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Women Who Rock

Maggie's Plan

All Movies (31)

• The Best Summer2026 · as Self
• LOUDER: The Soundtrack of Change2024 · as Self
• Punk Girls - Die weibliche Geschichte des britischen Punk2024 · as Self
• Nothing Compares2022 · as Self
• 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony2021 · as Self
• You Don't Own Me2021 · as Self
• The Go-Go's2021 · as Self - Bikini Kill
• Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché2021 · as Self
• Bad Reputation2018 · as Self
• Tour Without End2018
• Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution2017 · as Self
• Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk2017 · as Self
• Maggie's Plan2016 · as Québécois Female Singer
• Myrna the Monster2015 · as Myrna (voice)
• Positive Force: More Than a Witness - 30 Years of Punk Politics in Action2014 · as self
• Revolution, Riot Grrrl Style2014 · as Herself
• The Punk Singer2013 · as Self
• She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column2012 · as herself
• Wonder Women!: The Untold Story of American Superheroines2012 · as Self
• Kill All Redneck Pricks: A Documentary Film about a Band Called KARP2011 · as Self
• From the Back of the Room2011 · as Herself
• Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre on Tour2010 · as Herself
• The Gits2008 · as Self
• Don't Need You - The Herstory of Riot Grrrl2005 · as Herself
• Sonic Youth: Corporate Ghost2004
• Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music2001 · as Self
• Radical Act1996
• In Search of Margo-go1995
• The Judy Spots1995 · as Judy
• No Alternative Girls1994 · as Herself
• It Changed My Life: Bikini Kill in the UK1993 · as Herself

All TV Shows (5)

• King of Drag2025 · as Guest Judge
• Women Who Rock2022 · as Self
• Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson2021 · as Self
• Punk2019 · as Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert2015 · as Self -Musical Guest