Alanis Morissette
04/24/2008
Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress
Alanis Nadine Morissette (born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, and occasional actress. She has won twelve Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards, and has sold more than 55 million albums worldwide. She gained an American citizenship in 2005. Morissette began her career in Canada, and as a teenager recorded two dance-pop albums, Alanis and Now Is the Time, under MCA Records. Her international debut album was the rock-influenced Jagged Little Pill, which is the best-selling debut album by a female artist in the U.S., and the highest selling debut album worldwide in music history. According to RIAA and United World Charts, Alanis is defined as the biggest selling female rock artist in music. Morissette took up producing duties for her subsequent albums, which include Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, Under Rug Swept, So-Called Chaos and her upcoming release Flavors of Entanglement.
Discography
Stage, Film, and Television
You Can't Do That on Television, herself (1986)
Just One of the Girls, herself (1993)
Malhação, herself (1996)
Dogma, God (1999)
The Vagina Monologues (1999)
Sex and the City, Dawn (episode "Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl", 1999)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, That Woman (God) (2001)
Class Dismissed, herself (2001)
We're with the Band, herself (2002) ("Hands Clean", "Baba", "You Oughta Know", "Thank U")
Curb Your Enthusiasm, herself (episode "The Terrorist Attack", 2002)
Celebridade, herself (2003)
The Exonerated, Sunny Jacobs (2003)
De-Lovely, unnamed singer (2004) ("Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love")
American Dreams, Singer in the Lair (episode "What Dreams May Come", 2004)
Degrassi: The Next Generation, principal (episode "Goin' down the Road: Part 1", 2005)
Fuck, herself (2005)
Just Friends, herself (deleted scene), (2005)
Lovespring International, Lucinda (2006)
Nip/Tuck, Poppy (2006)
Head-case, herself (2007)
Radio Free Albemuth, Sylvia (TBA)
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