Alanis Nadine Morissette
(born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian
-American
singer-songwriter,
record producer and occasional
actress. She has won 12
Juno Awards and seven
Grammy Awards. 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 debut album was the
rock-influenced
Jagged Little Pill, which remains
the best-selling debut album by a female artist in the U.S., and
the highest selling debut album worldwide, selling 30 million units
globally. Her following album,
Supposed Former Infatuation
Junkie, was released in 1998 and was a success as well.
Morissette took up producing duties for her subsequent albums,
which include
Under Rug
Swept,
So-Called
Chaos and
Flavors
of Entanglement. Morissette has sold more than 40 million
albums worldwide. In February 2005, Morissette became a
naturalized citizen of the United States
while maintaining her Canadian
citizenship.
Early life
Alanis
Morissette was born in Ottawa
, Ontario
, Canada
, the
daughter of Georgia Mary Ann Feuerstein, a Hungarian-born teacher, and Alan Richard
Morissette, a French-Canadian high
school principal. Alanis has a twin brother,
Wade, and an older brother, Chad. At
six, she began playing the piano. In 1984, Morissette wrote her
first song, "Fate Stay with Me", which she sent to a local folk
singer, Lindsay Morgan, who recruited Morissette as her protégé.
Morissette released "Fate Stay with Me" as a single via a label she
founded with Morgan. A limited number of copies were pressed, and
it received little airplay. In elementary school she was identified
as gifted and attended St. Elizabeth's PGL (program for gifted
learners).
During her high school years, she attended
Immaculata High School and Glebe Collegiate Institute
in Ottawa while continuing to pursue a career in
the arts. In 1986, she was a cast regular on the
CTV/
Nickelodeon show,
You Can't Do That on
Television.
In 1987, Morissette competed in the inaugural
year of the Rising Star Talent Competition, an amateur contest held
in Toronto at the Canadian National Exhibition
.
At a
New York
City
audition, Morissette landed a spot on Star Search, a U.S. talent competition on
which she used the stage name of Alanis Nadine,
her first and middle names. Morissette flew to Los
Angeles
to appear on the show, but lost after one
round. In 1988, Morissette signed a publishing deal with
MCA Publishing, which helped to fund
her record deal with one of its independent subsidiary
labels.
Music career
1990–1992: Alanis and Now Is the Time
MCA Records released Morissette's debut
album,
Alanis, in Canada
only in 1991, and Morissette co-wrote every track on the album with
its producer,
Leslie Howe. By the time
it was released, she had dropped her stage name and was credited
simply as
Alanis. The
dance-pop album went
platinum, and its first single, "
Too Hot", reached the top twenty on the
RPM singles chart. Subsequent singles
"
Walk Away" and
"
Feel Your Love" reached the top
forty. Morissette's popularity, style of music and appearance,
particularly that of her hair, led her to become known as the
Debbie Gibson of Canada; comparisons
to
Tiffany were also common. During
the same period, she was a concert opening act for rapper
Vanilla Ice.Farley, Christopher John.
"You Oughta Know Her".
Time. February 26, 1996. Morissette was
nominated for three 1992
Juno Awards:
Most
Promising Female Vocalist of the Year (which she won),
Single of the Year and
Best Dance
Recording (both for "Too Hot").
In 1992, she released her second album,
Now Is the Time, a
ballad-driven record that featured less
glitzy production than
Alanis and contained more
thoughtful lyrics. Morissette wrote the songs with the album's
producer, Leslie Howe, and Serge Côté. She said of the album,
"people could go, 'Boo, hiss, hiss, this girl's like another
Tiffany or whatever'. But the way I look at it ... people will like
your next album if it's a kick-ass one." As with
Alanis,
Now Is the Time was released only in Canada and produced
three top forty singles—"
An Emotion
Away", the minor
adult
contemporary hit "
No
Apologies", and "(Change Is) Never a Waste of Time". It sold a
little more than half the copies of her first album, however, and
was a commercial failure.Wild, David.
"Adventures Of Miss Thing".
Rolling Stone. November 2, 1995. With her
two-album deal with MCA Canada complete, Morissette was left
without a major label contract.
1993–1997: Move to Los Angeles and Jagged Little
Pill
In 1993,
after graduating from high school, Morissette moved from Ottawa to
Toronto
.
Living alone for the first time in her life, she met with a number
of songwriters, but the results frustrated her.
A visit to Nashville
a few months later also proved fruitless.
In the
hopes of meeting a collaborator, Morissette began making trips to
Los
Angeles
and working with as many musicians as
possible.
During this time, she met producer and songwriter
Glen Ballard. The two wrote and recorded
Morissette's third album,
Jagged Little Pill, and by the
spring of 1995, she had signed a deal with
Maverick Records.
Maverick Records released
Jagged
Little Pill internationally in 1995. The album was
expected only to sell enough for Morissette to make a follow-up,
but the situation changed quickly when a
DJ from
KROQ, an influential
Los Angeles
radio station began
playing "
You Oughta Know," the
album's first single.
The song instantly garnered attention for
its scathing, explicit lyrics, and a subsequent music video went into heavy rotation on MTV and MuchMusic
.
After the success of "
You Oughta
Know," the album's other hit singles helped send
Jagged
Little Pill to the top of the charts. "
All I Really Want" and "
Hand In My Pocket" followed, but the
fourth U.S. single, "
Ironic", became
Morissette's biggest hit. "
You Learn" and
"
Head over Feet", the fifth and sixth
singles, respectively, kept
Jagged Little Pill in the top
twenty on the
Billboard 200
albums chart for more than a year. According to the
RIAA,
Jagged Little Pill is the best-selling
international debut album by a female artist, with more than
sixteen million copies sold in the U.S.; it sold thirty-three
million worldwide, making it the third biggest selling album by a
female artist, and the biggest selling debut album of all time,
even though it was her third album. Morissette's popularity grew
significantly in Canada, where the album was certified twelve times
platinum and produced four
RPM chart-toppers: "Hand In My
Pocket," "Ironic," "You Learn," and "Head over Feet".
The album was also a
bestseller in Australia and the United
Kingdom
.
Morissette's success with
Jagged Little Pill was credited
with leading to the introduction of female singers such as
Shakira,
Tracy Bonham,
Meredith Brooks,
Patti Rothberg and, in the early 2000s,
Pink and fellow Canadian
Avril Lavigne. She was criticised for
collaborating with producer and supposed image-maker Ballard, and
her previous albums also proved a hindrance for her
respectability.Hannaham, James.
"Alanis In Wonderland".
Spin. November 2, 1995. Morissette and
the album won six Juno Awards in 1996:
Album of the Year,
Single of the Year
("
You Oughta Know"),
Female Vocalist of
the Year,
Songwriter of the Year
and
Best Rock Album.
At the 1996
Grammy Awards, she won
Best Female Rock
Vocal Performance,
Best Rock Song
(both for "
You Oughta Know"),
Best Rock Album and
Album of the Year.
Later in 1996, Morissette embarked on an eighteen-month world tour
in support of
Jagged Little Pill, beginning in small clubs
and ending in large venues.
Taylor
Hawkins, who later joined the
Foo
Fighters, was the tour's drummer. "Ironic" was nominated for
two
1997 Grammy Awards—
Record of the Year and
Best Music Video, Short
Form—and won Single of the Year at the
1997 Juno Awards, where Morissette also won
Songwriter of the Year and the International Achievement Award. The
video
Jagged Little Pill,
Live, which was co-directed by Morissette and chronicled
the bulk of her tour, won a
1998
Grammy Award for
Best
Music Video, Long Form.
Following
the stressful tour, Morissette started practicing Iyengar Yoga for balancing, and after the last
December 1996 show, she headed to India
for six
weeks, accompanied by her mother, two aunts and two female
friends.
1998–2000: Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie and
Alanis Unplugged
Morissette was featured as a guest vocalist on
Ringo Starr's cover of "
Drift Away" on his 1998 album,
Vertical Man, and on the songs "
Don't Drink the
Water" and "
Spoon" on the
Dave Matthews Band album
Before These Crowded
Streets. She recorded the song "
Uninvited" for the
soundtrack to the 1998 film
City of Angels. Although the track was
never commercially released as a single, it received widespread
radio airplay in the U.S. At the
1999
Grammy Awards, it won in the categories of Best Rock Song and
Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, and was nominated for
Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual
Media. Later in 1998, Morissette released her fourth album,
Supposed Former
Infatuation Junkie, which she wrote and produced with Glen
Ballard.
Privately, the label hoped to sell a million copies of the album on
initial release; instead, it debuted at number one on the
Billboard 200 chart with first-week sales of 469,000
copies—a record, at the time, for the highest first-week sales of
an album by a female artist. The wordy, personal lyrics on
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie alienated many fans,
and after the album sold considerably less than
Jagged Little
Pill, many labelled it an example of the
sophomore jinx. However, it received positive
reviews, including a four-star review from
Rolling Stone. In Canada, it won the Juno
Award for Best Album and was certified four times platinum.
"2000 30th Juno Awards".
Los Angeles Times. "
Thank U", the album's only major international hit
single, was nominated for the
2000
Grammy Award for
Best Female Pop Vocal
Performance; the music video, which featured Morissette nude,
generated mild controversy.Willman, Chris.
"The Second Coming of Alanis".
Entertainment Weekly. November 6,
1998, iss. 457. Morissette herself directed the videos for "Unsent"
and "
So Pure", which won, respectively, the
MuchMusic Video Award for
Best Director and the
Juno Award for
Video of
the Year. The "So Pure" video features actor
Dash Mihok, with whom Morissette was in a
relationship at the time.
Morissette contributed vocals to "Mercy" and "Innocence", two
tracks on
Jonathan Elias's project
The Prayer Cycle, which
was released in 1999. The same year, she released the live acoustic
album
Alanis Unplugged,
which was recorded during her appearance on the television show
MTV Unplugged. It featured
tracks from her previous two albums alongside four new songs,
including "
King of Pain" (a cover of
The Police song) and "No Pressure over
Cappuccino", which Morissette wrote with her main guitar player,
Nick Lashley. The recording of the
Supposed Former Infatuation
Junkie track "
That I Would Be
Good", released as a single, became a minor hit on
hot adult contemporary radio in
America. Also in 1999, Morissette released a live version of her
song "Are You Still Mad" on the charity album
Live in the
X Lounge II. For her live rendition of "So Pure" at
Woodstock '99, she was nominated for
Best Female Rock Vocal Performance at the
2001 Grammy Awards. During summer 1999,
Alanis toured with singer, songwriter
Tori
Amos on the
5 And A Half
Weeks Tour in support of Amos' album
To Venus And Back.
2001–2003: Under Rug Swept and Feast On
Scraps
In 2001, Morissette was featured with
Stephanie McKay on the
Tricky song "Excess", which is on his album
Blowback. Morissette
released her fifth studio album,
Under Rug Swept, in February 2002. For
the first time in her career, she took on the role of sole writer
and producer of an album. Her band, comprising
Joel Shearer, Nick Lashley, Chris Chaney,
and Gary Novak, played the majority of the instruments; additional
contributions came from
Eric Avery,
Dean DeLeo,
Flea, and
Meshell Ndegeocello. Shortly after
recording the album Morissette essentially fired this whole band by
proposing a huge pay cut (at least 50% for most members) while
offering the drummer, Gary Novak, a slightly smaller pay cut but an
increase in work and responsibility. This effectively ended the
band as it was, and an entirely new band was hired shortly after,
featuring Jason Orme, Zac Rae,
David
Levita, and
Blair Sinta, who have
been with her since.
Under Rug Swept debuted at number one on the
Billboard 200 chart, eventually going platinum in Canada
and selling one million copies in the U.S. It produced the hit
single "
Hands Clean," which topped the
Canadian Singles Chart and
received substantial radio play; for her work on "Hands Clean" and
"
So Unsexy," Morissette won a Juno Award
for
Producer of the
Year. A second single, "
Precious
Illusions," was released, but it did not garner significant
success outside Canada or U.S. hot AC radio.
Later in 2002, Morissette released the combination package
Feast on Scraps, which
includes a DVD of live concert and backstage documentary footage
directed by her and a CD containing eight previously unreleased
songs from the
Under Rug Swept recording sessions.
Preceded by the single "Simple Together," it sold roughly 70,000
copies in the U.S. and was nominated for a Juno Award for
Music DVD of the
Year.
2004–2005: So-Called Chaos, Jagged Little Pill
Acoustic and The Collection
Morissette hosted the
Juno Awards of
2004 dressed in a bathrobe, which she took off to reveal a
flesh-coloured bodysuit, a response to the era of
censorship in the U.S. caused by
Janet Jackson's breast-reveal incident during
the
Super Bowl XXXVIII
halftime show. Morissette released her sixth studio album,
So-Called Chaos, in May
2004. She wrote the songs on her own again, and co-produced the
album with
Tim Thorney and
pop music producer
John
Shanks. The album debuted at number five on the
Billboard 200 chart to generally mixed critical reviews,
and it became Morissette's lowest seller in the U.S. The lead
single, "
Everything", achieved
major success on
adult top 40 radio in
America and was moderately popular elsewhere, particularly in
Canada, although it failed to reach the top forty on the U.S.
Hot 100. Because the first line of
the song includes the word
asshole, American radio
stations refused to play it, and the single version was changed to
include the word
nightmare instead.
"Morissette laughs off her display of
'nudity'".
Canadian Press via
CTV Television Network. April
7, 2004. Two other singles, "
Out Is
Through" and "
Eight Easy
Steps", fared considerably worse commercially than
"Everything", although a dance
mix of "Eight
Easy Steps" was a U.S.
club hit.
Morissette embarked on a U.S. summer tour with long-time friends
and fellow Canadians
Barenaked
Ladies, working with the non-profit environmental organization
Reverb.
To commemorate the tenth anniversary of
Jagged Little
Pill, Morissette released a studio
acoustic version,
Jagged Little Pill
Acoustic, in June 2005. The album was released exclusively
through
Starbucks'
Hear Music retail concept through their coffee
shops for a six-week run. The limited availability led to a dispute
between Maverick Records and
HMV North
America, who retaliated by removing Morissette's other albums from
sale for the duration of Starbucks's exclusive six-week sale.
Jagged Little Pill Acoustic sold around 300,000 copies in
the U.S.,Caulfield, Keith.
"Ask Billboard".
Billboard. January 3, 2006. and a
video for "
Hand in My Pocket"
received rotation on
VH1 in America. The
accompanying tour ran for two months in mid 2005, with Morissette
playing small theatre venues. During the same period, Morissette
was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.
Morissette opened for
The Rolling
Stones for a few dates of their
A
Bigger Bang Tour in the fall of 2005.
Morissette released the
greatest
hits album Alanis Morissette: The
Collection in late 2005. The lead single and only new
track, a cover of
Seal's "
Crazy," was a U.S. adult top 40 and dance
hit, but it achieved only minimal chart success elsewhere, as did
the album. A limited edition of
The Collection features a
DVD including a documentary with videos of two unreleased songs
from Morissette's 1996 Can't Not Tour: "King of Intimidation" and
"Can't Not." (A reworked version of "Can't Not" had also appeared
on
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie.) The DVD also
includes a ninety-second clip of the unreleased video for the
single "
Joining You." Morissette
contributed the song "
Wunderkind"
to the soundtrack of the film
The
Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the
Wardrobe, and it was nominated for a
Golden Globe Award for
Best Original
Song.
Alanis performed two songs with
Avril
Lavigne: Morissette's "
Ironic" and
Lavigne's "
Losing Grip".
2006–present: Flavors of Entanglement
2006 marked the first year in the recorded history of Morissette's
musical career that she had not a single concert appearance
showcasing her own songs, with the exception of an appearance on
The Tonight Show with
Jay Leno in January when she performed "Wunderkind".
On April 1, 2007, Morissette released a tongue-in-cheek cover of
The Black Eyed Peas's selection
"
My Humps," which she recorded in a slow,
mournful voice, accompanied only by a
piano.
The accompanying
YouTube-hosted video, in
which she dances provocatively with a group of men and hits the
ones who attempt to touch her "lady lumps," had received 16,465,653
views on February 15, 2009. Morissette did not take any interviews
for a time to explain the song, and it was theorized that she did
it as an
April Fools' Day
joke.Saxberg, Lynn.
"Bloggers, 'Tubers all atwitter over Morissette's
video parody of the Peas".
The Ottawa Citizen. April 5, 2007.
Black Eyed Peas vocalist
Stacy "Fergie"
Ferguson responded by sending Morissette a buttocks-shaped cake
with an approving note. On the verge of the release of her latest
album, she finally elaborated on how the video came to be, citing
that she became very much emotionally loaded while recording her
new songs one after the other and one day she wished she could do a
simple song like "
My Humps" in a
conversation with Guy Sigsworth and the joke just took a life of
its own when they started working on it.
Morissette performed at a gig for
The
Nightwatchman, a.k.a.
Tom Morello of
Rage Against the Machine
and
Audioslave fame, at the Hotel Café in
Los Angeles in April 2007.
The following June, she performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" and
"O Canada", the American
and Canadian
national anthems,
in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup
Finals between the Ottawa
Senators and the Anaheim Ducks in
Ottawa
, Ontario
. "Alanis Morissette to sing national anthems at Game 4 of
Stanley Cup final". Canadian
Press via Maclean's. June 1,
2007. In early 2008, Morissette participated in a tour with
Matchbox Twenty and
Mute Math as a special guest.
Morissette's seventh studio album,
Flavors of Entanglement, which
was produced by
Guy Sigsworth, was
released in mid 2008. She has stated that in late 2008, she would
embark on a North American headlining tour, but in the meantime she
would be promoting the album internationally by performing at shows
and festivals and making television and radio appearances. The
album's first single was "
Underneath", a video for which was
submitted to the 2007 Elevate Film Festival, the purpose of which
festival was to create documentaries, music videos, narratives and
shorts regarding subjects to raise the level of human consciousness
on the earth.
"Official Elevate Film Festival Website". September
15, 2007. On October 3, 2008, Morissette released the video for her
latest single, "
Not as We".
Alanis Morissette performed at the 11th Annual Power to the
Peaceful Festival in San Francisco on September 12, 2009 headlined
and produced by activist and artist, Michael Franti of Spearhead.
Morissette's acoustic set was very well received by a crowd
estimated at over 60,000 people.
Morissette also performed the "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Game 5
of the 2009 World Series at
Citizens
Bank Park
in Philadelphia
, Pennsylvania
.
Acting career
In 1986, Morissette had her first stint as an actress: eighteen
episodes of the children's television show
You Can't Do That on
Television. She appeared on stage with the
Orpheus Musical Theatre
Society in 1985 and 1988.
In 1993, she appeared in the film
Just One of the Girls starring
Corey Haim, which she described as
"horrible".
In 1999, Morissette delved into acting again, for the first time
since 1993, appearing as
God in the
Kevin Smith film
Dogma and contributing the song "Still" to
its soundtrack. She also appeared in the hit
HBO comedies
Sex and the City and
Curb Your Enthusiasm, and appeared
in the play
The Vagina
Monologues.
In late 2003, Morissette appeared in the
off-Broadway play
The Exonerated as
Sunny Jacobs, a
death row inmate freed
after proof surfaced that she was innocent.
In April 2006,
MTV News reported that Morissette would
reprise her role in The Exonerated in London
from May 23
through May 28.
She expanded her acting credentials with the July 2004 release of
the
Cole Porter biographical film De-Lovely, in which she performed the song
"
Let's Do It " and
had a brief role as an anonymous stage performer. In February 2005,
she made a guest appearance on the Canadian television show
Degrassi: The Next
Generation with
Dogma co-star
Jason Mewes and director Kevin Smith.
In 2006, she guest starred in an episode of
Lifetime's
Lovespring International as a
homeless woman named Lucinda, and three episodes of
FX's
Nip/Tuck,
playing a
lesbian named Poppy.
It was announced on Morissette's website that she will be starring
in a film adaptation of
Philip K.
Dick's novel
Radio Free Albemuth.
Morissette will play Sylvia, an ordinary woman in unexpected
remission from
lymphoma. She said she was a
"big fan" of Dick's books, which she called "poetic and expansively
imaginative", and said she "feel[s] blessed to portray Sylvia, and
to be part of this story being told in film" .
It was announced in May 2009 that Morissette had been cast in at
least seven episodes of
Weeds, playing Dr. Audra Kitson, a
"no-nonsense obstetrician" who treats pregnant main character
Nancy Botwin. These episodes aired from
June to
August
2009.
Morissette has also confirmed that she is now focusing on acting
for the time being, after a split from her record label, Maverick
Records.
Personal life
During 1993, Morissette dated
Dave
Coulier of television's
Full
House fame. Apparently the relationship became strained
because of the couple's work schedules. Dave Coulier became
disillusioned withMorrissette's brief affair with Shawn Pierce, the
drummer from Madison, WI band
ZEBRAS..
Between the ages of fourteen and eighteen, Morissette suffered from
anorexia and
bulimia nervosa, which were catalysed by
"hardcore" professional pressure and managerial demands from her
work towards making her first album. She recalled returning to the
studio to re-record some vocals, only to be told that the person
who summoned her there wanted to discuss her weight, and that she
couldn't be successful if she was fat. She lived on a diet of
carrots,
black
coffee and
Melba toast, and her
weight fluctuated by fifteen to twenty pounds. She subsequently
began therapy, which she called "a long process to un-program [my
brain]. I try to remember, whatever my body is, it's perfect the
way it is" .
By mid 2004, Morissette had become an ordained minister with the
Universal Life Church, a
religious organization that offers anyone semi-immediate ordination
as a minister free of charge .
In 2002 she began dating
actor Ryan Reynolds . In June 2004, Morissette
announced her engagement . In June 2006,
People magazine reported that
Morissette and Reynolds had split, but neither party confirmed the
report . The following month, a source said that they were together
. Contact Music reported that their split was a "rumour" and they
were pictured holding hands in Los Angeles. In February 2007,
representatives for Morissette and Reynolds announced that they had
mutually decided to end their engagement .
In her May 2004 interview to the British newspaper
The Mirror she discussed her past
relationships, having dated a twenty-nine year-old man at age
fourteen and, briefly, her experiences with drugs. In the article,
she was quoted as saying: "My addictions were work and food. I
smoked
pot once in a while, but I'm
too much of a control freak to be a drug person" .
In February 2005, Morissette became a
naturalized citizen of the United States
while maintaining her Canadian
citizenship. Morissette refers to herself as a
Canadian-American
"Alanis Morissette becomes U.S. citizen".
Associated Press via
MSNBC. February 17, 2005..
In a
Rolling Stone interview she revealed that she was
going to spend 2006 working on a memoir. She said of her book, "it
will be all the wisdom I've accrued in the thirty-one years of my
life [...] A lot about relationships, fame, travel, body-image
issues, spirit — with a lot of self-deprecating humor peppered
throughout, 'cause I just can't help it" Baltin, Steve.
"Alanis Writing Memoir, Album".
Rolling Stone. January 13, 2006. . As of
May 2008, Morissette was halfway through writing this
memoir that will focus on women's issues. It will
have chapters on sexuality, beauty, relationships and work and was
partially inspired by young women who regularly come up to her and
tell her their stories of personal pain.
In June 2008, when asked about some revealing songs on her new
album, she responded, "I’ve had so many rock bottom moments in my
life. I’ve hit rock bottom, but I didn’t necessarily bounce up as
high right after. This one was the biggest bounce" . Since July
2007, she has been dating environmental lawyer Tom Ballanco .
In early 2009, after reading
Dr. Joel
Fuhrman’s book
Eat to Live, Morissette adopted a
vegan diet which helped her lose weight and
get healthy .
In the fall of 2009, Morissette ran the Bizz Johnson Trail Marathon
(October 11, 2009) in 4:17:03. She raised over $3,000 for the
National Eating
Disorders Association (NEDA) for this race . Three weeks later,
she ran the
New York City
Marathon (November 1, 2009) in 4:28:45 .
Discography
Stage, film, and television
- You Can't Do
That on Television, herself (1986)
- Just One of the
Girls, herself (1993)
- Music Works, herself
(1994)
- Malhação, herself
(1996)
- Dogma, God (1999)
- The Vagina
Monologues (1999)
- Sex and the City, Dawn
(episode "Boy, Girl, Boy,
Girl", 1999)
- 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)
- 14 Women, herself (2007)
- Radio Free
Albemuth, Sylvia (TBA)
- Rosie Live (2008) - sang "Not as We"
- Weeds , Dr. Audra
Kitson (2009)
- My Mother's Red
Hat , herself (2009)
- Sit Down, Shut Up,
herself (2009)
Videography
Tours
Awards and nominations
See also
Notes and references
- Alanis Morissette Biography (1974-)
- "Transcript: Profiles of Alanis Morissette,
Margaret Cho". CNN
People in the News. January 4,
2003.
- "Search Certification Database". Canadian Recording
Industry Association.
- "1992 22nd Juno Awards". Los Angeles
Times.
- Kawashima, Dale. "Great Publishing Story: John Alexander & Alanis
Morissette". Songwriter Universe Magazine. Retrieved
November 16, 2006.
- Newman, Melinda. "10 Years On, Alanis Unplugs 'Little
Pill'"Billboard. March 4, 2005.
Retrieved November 16, 2006.
- Walker, Steven. "The Sound Of A Decade". The Age Blog. August 24,
2007.
- Dale, David. "The top-selling albums and musicians in
Australia". The Sydney Morning Herald.
July 12, 2005.
- Harris, Bill. "Queen rules - in album sales".
Toronto
Sun. November 17, 2006.
- Mayer, Andre. "What a
Pill". CBC Arts.
June 13, 2005.
- "1996 26th Juno Awards". Los Angeles
Times.
- "1995 38th Grammy Awards". Los Angeles
Times.
- "1996 39th Grammy Awards". Los Angeles
Times.
- "1997 27th Juno Awards". Los Angeles
Times.
- "1997 40th Grammy Awards". Los Angeles
Times.
- Morissette, Alanis
- "1998 41st Grammy Awards". Los Angeles
Times.
- "'Oops!' Britney breaks record".
Chicago Sun-Times. May 25, 2000.
- Lynskey, Dorian. "Are you suffering from DSAS?".
The
Guardian. September 19, 2003.
- Sheffield, Rob. "Album Reviews - Alanis Morissette - Supposed
Former Infatuation Junkie ". Rolling Stone. December 10,
1998.
- "1999 42nd Grammy Awards". Los Angeles
Times.
- Ramirez, Maurice. "Morissette To Release 'Unplugged' Album".
VH1.com. October 4,
1999.
- "2000 43rd Grammy Awards". Los Angeles
Times.
- "2002 33rd Juno Awards". Los Angeles
Times.
- "2003 34th Juno Awards". Los Angeles
Times.
- R E V
E R B |
- "Morissette in Starbucks album row".
BBC News. June 15,
2005.
- "HMV pulls Alanis product to protest Starbucks
deal". CBC Arts.
June 14, 2005.
- "Alanis Morissette - 2005 Inductee".
Canada's Walk of Fame.
- The Celebrity Truth. "PLW Live - Alanis Morisette Finally Explains My
Humps". Undercover.com.au. June 7, 2008.
- Herndon, Jessica. "Fergie Sends Alanis 'Derriere' Cake for 'Humps'
Video". People. April 11, 2007.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB_gbWUWIuQ
- "Where Are They Now?". Orpheus Musical Theatre
Society.
- Staff. "For The Record: Quick News On Nick Lachey, Mariah
Carey, LL Cool J, Paris Hilton, Velvet Revolver & More".
MTV News. April 19,
2006.
- "You Oughta Know". Urban Legends Reference Pages.
January 10, 2000.
- McQueen, Ann Marie. "Alanis battled anorexia, bulimia". Ottawa Sun. June 29, 2005.
Retrieved November 16, 2006.
- Oppenheimer, Mark. "Yes, Minister". The Wall
Street Journal. June 2, 2004.
- Ali, Lorraine. "Q&A: Alanis Morissette". Newsweek via MSNBC. May 24, 2004.
- http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,653651,00.html
- Silverman, Stephen M. and Midler, Caryn. "Alanis Morissette, Ryan Reynolds Engaged".
People. June 16, 2004.
- Silverman, Stephen M. "Alanis Morissette, Ryan Reynolds Split".
People. June 7, 2006.
- "Ryan Reynolds & Alanis Morrissette:
reunited". LaineyGossip.com. July 20, 2006.
- "Morissette + Ex Back Together?".
contactmusic.com. July 28, 2006.
- Finn, Natalie. "Alanis & Ryan: Former Infatuation
Junkies". E!
Online. February 2, 2007.
- Martin, Gavin. "Tangled Love Life of Alanis Morissette".
The
Mirror. May 13, 2004.
- I've been a thorn in people's sides just by
existing The Guardian Unlimited May 21, 2008
- "Morissette On Life After Rock Bottom".
AOL June 2008
- "Howard Stern Show". youtube.com June 11, 2008.
- http://www.okmagazine.com/news/view/11045/
- http://blog.peta.org/archives/alanis_morissette/
- http://www.firstgiving.com/alanismorissette
-
http://wsxnyc.org/results-1.0-SNAPSHOT/results/results/showme.jsp?first=Alanis&last=Morissette
External links