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Courtney Love

Courtney Love (Courtney Michelle Harrison), American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actress, born 1964 in San Francisco; frontwoman of Hole (Pretty on the Inside, Live Through This, Celebrity Skin), widow of Kurt Cobain, Golden Globe-nominated actress, subject of the 2026 documentary Antiheroine.

Courtney Pine

Courtney Pine, born 1964 in London, is a British jazz saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist whose 1986 debut Journey to the Urge Within was the first serious jazz album in the UK Top 40; he co-founded the Jazz Warriors, fused jazz with reggae, hip-hop, and drum'n'bass, and holds an OBE and CBE.

Courtney Stodden

Courtney Stodden (Courtney Alexis Stodden), American media personality, model, and singer born 1994 in Tacoma, Washington, who married actor Doug Hutchison at 16 in 2011, later came out as non-binary, and advocates against child marriage.

Courtney Storer

Courtney "Coco" Storer is an American chef and the culinary producer (and co-executive producer) of FX's The Bear, sister of creator Christopher Storer; ex-culinary director of Jon & Vinny's, trained the cast, runs Coco's to Go-Go catering.

Courtney Taylor-Taylor

Courtney Taylor-Taylor (born 1967, born Courtney Alan Taylor) is the American singer-guitarist and songwriter who co-founded The Dandy Warhols in Portland, Oregon in 1994, known for "Bohemian Like You" and the Odditorium studio.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

Courtney Thorne-Smith (born 1967) is an American actress known for Alison Parker on Melrose Place, Georgia Thomas on Ally McBeal, and Cheryl on According to Jim, plus Emma Fielding Hallmark films.

Courtney Whitmore

Courtney Whitmore, also the Star-Spangled Kid and Stargirl, is a DC Comics superheroine created by Geoff Johns and Lee Moder in 1999, stepdaughter of Pat Dugan, wielder of the Cosmic Staff, JSA and Justice League member, and star of the 2020 Stargirl TV series.

Couscous

Couscous (seksu; kuskus) is a Maghrebi grain product of rolled durum wheat semolina granules steamed in a couscoussier, staple of North Africa, inscribed on UNESCO's 2020 Intangible Cultural Heritage list.

Cousin Bette

Cousin Bette (La Cousine Bette) is an 1846 novel by Honoré de Balzac, in which the poor, resentful Lisbeth Fischer plots the destruction of her Paris relatives.

Cousin Itt

Cousin Itt (also spelled Cousin It) is the hair-covered, sunglasses-wearing Addams Family relative created for the 1964 ABC sitcom at David Levy's suggestion, debuting February 5, 1965 as played by Felix Silla, later portrayed by John Franklin, Roger Arroyo, Phil Fondacaro, and voiced by Snoop Dogg.

Cousin Skeeter

Cousin Skeeter is a Nickelodeon live-action sitcom (1998-2001, 52 episodes, 3 seasons) about teenager Bobby Walker and his cousin Skeeter, a hand puppet voiced by Bill Bellamy whom nobody acknowledges as a puppet.

Cousins (Kanye West song)

"Cousins" (COUSINS), 2025 hip-hop single by Ye (Kanye West), intended second single from unreleased album Cuck; released April 21, 2025 on X, streamed April 23; lyrics by Dave Blunts about West's stated childhood incestuous acts with a jailed cousin; removed from streaming November 2025.

Couture (film)

Couture (Coutures) is Alice Winocour's 2025 French-American drama starring Angelina Jolie as a filmmaker diagnosed with breast cancer during Paris Fashion Week; first fictional film shot inside Chanel's atelier, premiered at TIFF 2025.

Coven (band)

Coven is an American occult rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, fronted by Jinx Dawson. Its 1969 debut Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls introduced devil horns, inverted crosses, and "Hail Satan!" to rock, predating Black Sabbath.

Coven Academy

Coven Academy (Coven Academy: El hechizo de las brujas) is a 2026 supernatural teen drama created by Tim Federle, set at the Crescent Veil magic boarding school in New Orleans, premiering October 1, 2026 on Freeform and Disney+, with 21 short chapters and a 100% Rotten Tomatoes critic score.

Coven of the Chicken Foot

Coven of the Chicken Foot is an upcoming single-player puzzle-platformer adventure by Wildflower Interactive, the studio of former The Last of Us co-director Bruce Straley. Revealed at The Game Awards 2025 for PC via Steam, it stars the elderly chicken-footed witch Gertie and a learning creature companion in a wordless, hand-drawn post-adventure fantasy world.

Coventry Patmore

Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) was an English poet best known for The Angel in the House, whose title named the Victorian ideal of the devoted wife.

Cover Girl

Cover Girl (1944) is a Columbia Pictures Technicolor musical directed by Charles Vidor, starring Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly, with a Jerome Kern-Ira Gershwin score, Kelly's first film choreography with Stanley Donen, and the famous Alter Ego dance.

Cover Up (TV series)

Cover Up is an American action-adventure series on CBS, created by Glen A. Larson, about a fashion photographer and her model working as secret agents.

Cover version

Cover version: a new recording or performance of a song by an artist other than the original performer or composer; also called a cover. Term coined 1965-70; covers may out-chart originals (Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You) and fall under compulsory mechanical licensing in the US.

Cover-Up (2025 film)

Cover-Up (2025) is a 117-minute American documentary by Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus about investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, from My Lai to Abu Ghraib; released theatrically December 5, 2025 and on Netflix December 26, 2025.

Covert Affairs

Covert Affairs is a USA Network spy drama (2010–2014) created by Matt Corman and Chris Ord, starring Piper Perabo as CIA operative Annie Walker and Christopher Gorham as Auggie Anderson, running 75 episodes over five seasons before cancellation in 2015.

Covet

Covet: American instrumental math rock band formed 2014 in the San Francisco Bay Area, led by guitarist Yvette Young. Also tagged post-rock; albums Effloresce (2018), Technicolor (2020), catharsis (2023) on Triple Crown Records; not the word or other bands named Covet.

Cow (斗牛) (2009 film)

Cow (斗牛, Dou niu) is Guan Hu's 2009 Chinese black-comedy war film starring Huang Bo and Yan Ni, about a Shandong farmer guarding a Dutch dairy cow in 1940; it premiered at Venice's Orizzonti and won Huang Bo the Golden Horse Best Actor award.

Cow and Chicken

Cow and Chicken is a 1997-1999 Cartoon Network animated comedy by David Feiss and Hanna-Barbera about a cow and chicken siblings tormented by the Red Guy, voiced with them by Charlie Adler, with the I Am Weasel segment.

Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue

Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue is a 1931 oil painting by Georgia O'Keeffe of a cow's skull on red, white, blue, and black bands.

Coward (2026 film)

Coward (2026) is Lukas Dhont's third feature, a Belgian-French-Dutch WWI drama about soldiers Pierre and Francis behind the Belgian front in 1916; it won shared Best Actor at Cannes 2026 and is Belgium's entry for the 2027 Oscars.

Cowardly Lion

The Cowardly Lion is L. Frank Baum's talking African lion from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), a self-described coward who acts bravely; also Brrr in Maguire's Wicked and the Courageous Lion in Volkov's Magic Land.

Cowboy Bebop (2021 TV series)

Cowboy Bebop (2021) is Netflix's live-action adaptation of the 1998 anime, starring John Cho, Mustafa Shakir, and Daniella Pineda, showrun by André Nemec, with Yoko Kanno scoring. Premiered November 19, 2021; canceled after one 10-episode season in December 2021.

Cowboy Bebop (カウボーイビバップ)

Cowboy Bebop (カウボーイビバップ) is Sunrise's 1998 space-western noir anime directed by Shinichirō Watanabe, set in 2071 aboard the bounty-hunting ship Bebop, with Yoko Kanno's Seatbelts jazz score, a 2001 film, and a 2021 Netflix live-action remake.