1. Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canadian and American singer-songwriter and actress.
82 Facts About Alanis Morissette
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Alanis Morissette is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a Brit Award, seven Grammy Awards, fourteen Juno Awards, and nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award.
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Alanis Morissette continued this success with her next album Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, which saw her adapt an experimental sound and was highly anticipated.
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Alanis Morissette served as the sole producer of her fifth album Under Rug Swept, and took on further creative control and production duties.
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Alanis Morissette has continued her career with the subsequent albums So-Called Chaos, Flavors of Entanglement, Havoc and Bright Lights, Such Pretty Forks in the Road, and The Storm Before the Calm.
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Alanis Morissette holds the record for the most number ones on the weekly Billboard Alternative Songs chart among female soloists, group leaders, or duo members.
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Alanis Nadine Morissette was born on June 1,1974, at Riverside Hospital in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, the daughter of Georgia Mary Ann and Alan Richard Morissette.
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In 1977, the family moved to Lahr in what was then West Germany, where Alanis Morissette's parents started working as teachers at the local CAF base.
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Alanis Morissette attended Holy Family Catholic School for elementary school and Immaculata High School for seventh and eighth grades; she appeared on the children's television sketch comedy You Can't Do That on Television for five episodes while attending the former.
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Alanis Morissette is known for her emotive mezzo-soprano voice and confessional songwriting.
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Alanis Morissette recorded her first demo called "Fate Stay with Me", produced by Lindsay Thomas Morgan at Marigold Studios in Toronto, and engineered by Rich Dodson of Canadian classic rock band The Stampeders.
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Alanis Morissette co-wrote every track on the album with its producer, Leslie Howe.
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Alanis Morissette was nominated for three 1992 Juno Awards: Most Promising Female Vocalist of the Year, Single of the Year and Best Dance Recording.
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In 1992, she released her second album, Now Is the Time, a ballad-driven record that featured less glitzy production than Alanis Morissette and contained more thoughtful lyrics.
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Alanis Morissette wrote the songs with the album's producer, Leslie Howe, and Serge Cote.
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Alanis Morissette's publisher funded part of her development and she spent her time there composing and rehearsing with a number of other musicians, looking to find good chemistry with a potential songwriting partner for her next album.
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The album was expected only to sell enough for Alanis Morissette to make a follow-up, but the situation improved quickly when KROQ-FM, an influential Los Angeles modern rock radio station, began playing "You Oughta Know", the album's first single, featuring Flea and Dave Navarro from the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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Alanis Morissette embarked on an 18-month world tour in support of Jagged Little Pill, beginning in small clubs and ending in large venues.
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The video Jagged Little Pill, Live, which was co-directed by Alanis Morissette and is about the bulk of her tour won a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Music Video, Long Form.
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Alanis Morissette recorded the song "Uninvited" for the soundtrack to the 1998 film City of Angels.
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In November 1998, Alanis Morissette released her fourth album, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, which she wrote and produced with Glen Ballard.
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Alanis 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.
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Also in 1999, Alanis Morissette released a live version of her song "Are You Still Mad" on the charity album Live in the X Lounge II.
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In 2001, Alanis Morissette was featured with Stephanie McKay on the Tricky song "Excess", which is on his album Blowback.
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Alanis Morissette released her fifth studio album, Under Rug Swept, in February 2002.
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Alanis Morissette's 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.
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Later in 2002, Alanis 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.
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Alanis Morissette released her sixth studio album, So-Called Chaos, in May 2004.
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Alanis Morissette wrote the songs on her own again, and co-produced the album with Tim Thorney and pop music producer John Shanks.
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Alanis Morissette embarked on a US summer tour with long-time friends and fellow Canadians Barenaked Ladies, working with the non-profit environmental organization Reverb.
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The accompanying tour ran for two months in mid-2005, with Alanis Morissette playing small theatre venues.
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That same year, Alanis Morissette contributed the song "Wunderkind" to the soundtrack of the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.
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Black Eyed Peas vocalist Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson responded by sending Alanis Morissette a buttocks-shaped cake with an approving note.
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In early 2008, Alanis Morissette participated in a tour with Matchbox Twenty and Mutemath as a special guest.
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On October 3,2008, Alanis Morissette released the video for her latest single, "Not as We".
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Alanis Morissette said the album was created out of her grief after splitting up with Ryan Reynolds, and the song "Torch" was written about him.
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Alanis Morissette has recorded a cover of the 1984 Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias hit, "To All the Girls I've Loved Before", re-written as "To All the Boys I've Loved Before".
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On May 26,2010, the season finale of American Idol, Alanis Morissette performed a duet of her song "You Oughta Know" with Runner Up Crystal Bowersox.
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Alanis Morissette left Maverick Records after all promotion for Flavors was completed.
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On November 20,2011, Alanis Morissette appeared at the American Music Awards.
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On December 21,2011, Alanis Morissette performed a duet of "Uninvited" with finalist Josh Krajcik during the performance finale of the X-Factor.
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On May 2,2012, Alanis Morissette revealed through her Facebook account that her eighth studio album, entitled Havoc and Bright Lights, would be released in August 2012, on new label Collective Sounds, distributed by Sony's RED Distribution.
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Alanis Morissette received the UCLA Spring Sing's George and Ira Gershwin Award on May 16,2014, at Pauley Pavilion.
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On March 16,2018, Alanis Morissette performed a new song called "Ablaze" during her 2018 tour.
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On May 5,2018, Jagged Little Pill, a jukebox musical featuring Alanis Morissette's songs, premiered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the American Repertory Theater.
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Alanis Morissette contributed two new songs to the musical, "Smiling" and "Predator".
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In June 2019, Alanis Morissette went into the studio in Los Angeles.
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On December 1,2019, Alanis Morissette announced her first studio album in eight years, Such Pretty Forks in the Road, set for release on May 1,2020.
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Alanis Morissette was scheduled to embark on a world tour for the 25th anniversary of Jagged Little Pill in June 2020 with Garbage and Liz Phair, both of whom already opened for Alanis Morissette in 1999 during Junkie Tour.
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In November 2023, Alanis Morissette announced The Triple Moon Tour with 33 live dates in the United States for the summer 2024 with the Joan Jett and the Blackhearts as support act, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie album.
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On January 30,2024, Alanis Morissette was awarded with the Luminary of the Year prize for the outstanding contribution to the music, at the 1st annual Resonator Awards, organized by We Are Moving the Needle, a non-profit organization that aims to empower women producers and engineers.
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In 1986, Alanis Morissette had her first stint as an actress in five episodes of the children's television show You Can't Do That on Television.
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Alanis Morissette appeared on stage with the Orpheus Musical Theatre Society in 1985 and 1988.
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In 1999, Alanis Morissette delved into acting again, for the first time since 1993, appearing as God in the Kevin Smith comedy Dogma and contributing the song "Still" to its soundtrack.
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Alanis Morissette reprised her role as God for a post-credits scene in Smith's next film, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, to literally close the book on the View Askewniverse.
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In late 2003, Alanis Morissette appeared in the Off-Broadway play The Exonerated as Sunny Jacobs, a death row inmate freed after proof surfaced that she was innocent.
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Alanis Morissette 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.
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Also in 2005, Alanis Morissette, then engaged to Ryan Reynolds, made a cameo appearance as "herself" as a former client of Reynolds' character in the film Just Friends.
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Alanis Morissette appeared in eight episodes of Weeds, playing Dr Audra Kitson, a "no-nonsense obstetrician" who treats pregnant main character Nancy Botwin.
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In early 2010, Alanis Morissette returned to the stage, performing a one-night engagement in An Oak Tree, an experimental play in Los Angeles.
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Alanis Morissette plays Sylvia, an ordinary woman in unexpected remission from lymphoma.
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Alanis Morissette appeared as Amanda, a former bandmate of main character Ava Alexander, in one episode of NBC's Up All Night on February 16,2012.
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In 2014, Alanis Morissette played the role of Marisa Damia, the lover of architect and designer Eileen Gray, in the film The Price of Desire, directed by Mary McGuckian.
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In 2021, Alanis Morissette was featured as a recurring character on adult-animation show The Great North.
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Alanis Morissette is an advocate and educator in the areas of spiritual, psychological, and physical wholeness, with a focus on addiction recovery, trauma healing, women's empowerment, and holistic education for children.
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Alanis Morissette has facilitated workshops at notable institutions such as UCLA, the Omega Institute, Esalen, and 1440 Multiversity, both in-person and online.
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In 2008 Alanis Morissette contributed a recording of "Versions of Violence" for the album Songs for Tibet: The Art of Peace to promote peace.
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Alanis Morissette contributed to 1 Giant Leap, performing "Arrival" with Zap Mama and she has released an acoustic version of her song "Still" as part of a compilation from Music for Relief in support of the 2010 Haiti earthquake crisis.
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Alanis Morissette was raised in a devout Catholic family in Canada.
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Alanis Morissette became a US citizen in 2005, while retaining her Canadian citizenship.
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Alanis Morissette recovered from them and started to eat a healthier diet.
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Alanis Morissette confessed to doing so in April 2017 and was sentenced to six years in prison.
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On October 22,2019, Alanis Morissette shared her nearly decade-long experience with postpartum depression on CBS This Morning.
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In 1996, Alanis Morissette bought a home in Brentwood, Los Angeles.
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Alanis Morissette had an apartment in Ottawa and a home in Malibu, the latter of which was partially destroyed in the Woolsey Fire.
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Alanis Morissette dated actor and comedian Dave Coulier for a short time in the early 1990s.
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Alanis Morissette met Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds at Drew Barrymore's birthday party in 2002, and they began dating soon afterwards.
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On May 22,2010, Alanis Morissette married rapper Mario "Souleye" Treadway in a private ceremony at their Los Angeles home.
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Alanis Morissette was nominated for Best New Artist at the 38th Grammy Awards, and won Best New Artist at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards for her song, "Ironic"; additionally she was nominated for a Tony Award for the stage adaptation of Jagged Little Pill.
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Alanis Morissette has been nominated four times for Songwriter of the Year at the Juno Awards, winning two in 1996 and 1997.
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Alanis Morissette was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2005.
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Alanis Morissette was honored with the 2023 Carnegie Corporation of New York "Great Immigrants" Awards along with Angelique Kidjo, Ke Huy Quan, and Pedro Pascal.