Courtney Love appeared in a film directed by a man.
Alexander `` Alex '' Cox ( born 15 December 1954 in Bebington , Cheshire ) is a British film director , screenwriter , nonfiction author , broadcaster and sometime actor , notable for his idiosyncratic style and approach to scripts . Courtney Love . She spent her formative years in San Francisco and Portland , Oregon , where she was in a series of short-lived bands before being cast in two films by British director Alex Cox . Love continued to work as an actress into the early 2000s , appearing in big-budget pictures such as Man on the Moon ( 1999 ) and Trapped ( 2002 ) , before releasing her first solo album , America 's Sweetheart , in 2004 .