Yoko Ono

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Yoko Ono is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon. Ono brought feminism to the forefront through her music which prefigured New Wave music (whether she was a direct influence is still debated). She is a supporter of gay rights and is known for her philanthropic contributions to the arts, peace and AIDS outreach programs.

Known For

Isle of Dogs

Assistant-Scientist Yoko-ono (voice)

Saturday Night Live

Self

The Beatles: Get Back

Self

Mad About You

Yoko Ono

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Self

Let It Be

Self (uncredited)

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Self - Guest

The View

Self

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2026	Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC MOVIE	Self
2025	The Beatles - Free As A Bird: A Song Reborn MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2025	The Beatles: The Sound of a Revolution MOVIE	Self
2025	Borrowed Time: Lennon's Last Decade MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2025	One to One: John & Yoko MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2024	Beatles '64 MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2024	Elton John: Never Too Late MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2024	Daytime Revolution MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2023	Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2023	Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2023	The Lost Weekend: A Love Story MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2023	Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2022	The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2021	The Beatles: Get Back TV	Self
2021	Parkinson at 50 MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2021	1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything TV	Self (archive footage)
2020	Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2020	Zappa MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2020	Lennon's Last Weekend MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2020	Tapes MOVIE	Self
2019	Other Music MOVIE	Self
2019	The Last 24 Hours: John Lennon MOVIE	Self
2019	Killing John Lennon MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2018	John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky MOVIE	Self
2018	Why Are We Creative? MOVIE	Self
2018	Isle of Dogs MOVIE	Assistant-Scientist Yoko-ono (voice)
2018	George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus MOVIE	Self
2017	How the Beatles Changed the World MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2017	I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance MOVIE	Self
2017	It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2017	Kyoko MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2016	WAR IS OVER! (If You Want It) MOVIE	Self
2016	Deconstructing the Beatles' White Album MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2016	Yoko Ono Lennon's Courage Awards 2016: Laurie Anderson, Mohammad el Gharani, Eileen Boxer, RoseLee Goldberg, LoftOpera MOVIE	Self
2016	Stupor Mundi: Livre 2, Les Hommes qui mangèrent la montagne MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2015	The Last Lennon Interview MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2015	The Beatles 1+ MOVIE	Self
2015	Bad Girls of Japan MOVIE	Self
2015	Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2014	The Term. Beginning of a Big Story MOVIE	Self (uncredited)
2014	The Last Impresario MOVIE	Self
2013	Silver Spoon TV	Aki's Grandmother (voice)
2013	Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2013	Rock 'N' Roll Exposed: The Photography of Bob Gruen MOVIE	Self
2012	Inventing David Geffen MOVIE	Self
2012	Arts & Crafts Spectacular #2 MOVIE	(voice)
2011	Sleepless Nights Stories MOVIE	Self
2011	George Harrison: Living in the Material World TV	Self
2011	Re: Maciunas and Fluxus MOVIE	Self
2010	The Day John Lennon Died MOVIE	Self
2010	Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?) MOVIE	Self
2010	Music MOVIE	Self
2010	LennoNYC MOVIE	Self
2010	John Lennon: Love Is All You Need MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2010	Ugly Beauty MOVIE	Self
2010	The Beatles: The Complete Story MOVIE	Self (Archive Footage)
2008	All Together Now MOVIE	Self
2008	The 60s: The Beatles Decade TV	Self
2008	Classic Albums: John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band MOVIE	Self
2008	The Universe of Keith Haring MOVIE	Self
2007	365 Day Project MOVIE	Self
2007	Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens MOVIE	Self
2006	To John With Love MOVIE	Self
2006	John & Yoko Bed-In MOVIE	Self
2006	Warhol and Maciunas MOVIE	Self
2006	Greasy Rider MOVIE	Self
2006	John Lennon & Yoko Ono: Give Peace A Song MOVIE	as Herself
2006	The U.S. vs. John Lennon MOVIE	Self
2006	Follow My Voice: With the Music of Hedwig MOVIE	Self
2006	Torino 2006 Olympic Opening Ceremony MOVIE	Self
2006	Nam June Paik: Lessons from the Video Master MOVIE	Self
2005	Girls and Boys - Sex and British Pop TV	Self
2005	Pink Floyd London '66-'67 MOVIE	Self (uncredited)
2004	Beatles Biggest Secrets MOVIE	Self
2004	Kulturplatz TV	Self
2004	Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2004	Art & the 60s MOVIE	Self
2003	Inside John Lennon - Unauthorized MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2003	Imagine Imagine MOVIE	Self
2003	Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2003	Beatles: The Journey MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2003	Jimmy Kimmel Live! TV	Self
2002	Hanratty: The Whole Truth MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2001	Friday Night with Jonathan Ross TV	Self
2001	Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words & Music MOVIE	Self
2001	Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock MOVIE	Self
2001	Wingspan MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2000	Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album MOVIE	Self
2000	John & Yoko's Year of Peace MOVIE	Self
1997	Happy Birthday to John MOVIE	Self
1997	Behind the Music TV	Self
1997	The View TV	Self
1997	Classic Albums TV	Self
1996	The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus MOVIE	Self - Vocal
1995	An Introduction to Harmolodics MOVIE	Self
1995	"Topless Cellist" Charlotte Moorman MOVIE	Self
1994	Brisant TV	Self
1994	Jonas in the Desert MOVIE	Self
1993	Intimate Portrait TV	Self (archive footage)
1993	Late Night with Conan O'Brien TV	Self - Guest
1993	The Revenge of the Dead Indians MOVIE	Herself
1992	Rolling Stone 25: The MTV Special MOVIE	Self
1992	The John Lennon Video Collection MOVIE	Self
1992	Mad About You TV	Yoko Ono
1992	The Tonight Show with Jay Leno TV	Self
1992	Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 2: Assassination in the 20th Century MOVIE	Self
1990	John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It MOVIE	Self
1990	Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol MOVIE	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1990	Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections MOVIE	Self
1988	Imagine: John Lennon MOVIE	Self
1988	Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues MOVIE	Self
1987	I Am Not a Freak MOVIE	Self
1986	American Masters TV	Self
1986	The John Lennon Sketchbook MOVIE	Self
1986	He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1986	Vain Glory MOVIE	Yōko Ono
1986	John Lennon: One to One Concert Live in New York MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1984	Yoko Ono: Then and Now MOVIE	Self
1982	Champs-Elysées TV	Self
1981	The Killing of America MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1979	Flux-Concert MOVIE	Self
1977	Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante MOVIE	Self
1976	Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol MOVIE	Self
1975	Saturday Night Live TV	Self
1972	Imagine MOVIE	Self
1972	The One to One Concert MOVIE	Self
1972	John Lennon - Imagine MOVIE	Self
1972	Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here MOVIE	Self
1971	Yoko and John Party MOVIE	Self
1971	Brazil in Cannes MOVIE	Self
1971	Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally MOVIE	Self
1971	Sweet Toronto MOVIE	Self
1971	Up Your Legs Forever MOVIE	Self
1971	Frank Zappa, John Lennon & Yoko Ono: At Fillmore East MOVIE	Self
1971	Dynamite Chicken MOVIE	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1970	Apotheosis MOVIE	Self
1970	Freedom MOVIE	Woman
1970	Rome Is Burning: Portrait of Shirley Clarke MOVIE	Yoko Ono
1970	Let It Be MOVIE	Self (uncredited)
1969	24 Hours: The World of John and Yoko MOVIE	Self
1969	The Beatles: Something MOVIE	Self
1969	Bed Peace MOVIE	Self
1968	Two Virgins MOVIE	Self
1968	The Dick Cavett Show TV	Self - Guest
1968	Diaries, Notes, and Sketches MOVIE	Self
1966	Eyeblink MOVIE	Self
1966	No. 4 MOVIE	Self
1966	Eyeblink MOVIE	Self
1965	Andy Warhol Screen Tests MOVIE	Self
1965	Satan's Bed MOVIE	Ito
1965	Cut Piece MOVIE	Herself
1964	Hi-Red Centre Shelter Plan MOVIE	Self
1964	Some Young People MOVIE	herself
	The Misfits - 30 Years of Fluxus MOVIE	Self

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