Courtney Love is reportedly joining the television show Sons of Anarchy for its seventh and final season.

TvLine reported that Love will play a "pivotal" role in season seven as Ms Harrison, the "straight-shooting pre-school teacher" of the eldest son of the show's protagonist, Jax Teller.

Sons of Anarchy, which will return to FX in September, tells the story of motorcycle gangs in California that take on rival gangs, politicians and the authorities. The show premiered in September 2008.

TvLine says Ms Harrison will appear in multiple episodes. The teacher will reportedly take a special interest in Jax's son Abel that will spark an "interesting" reaction" from the boy's mother, who is played by Drea de Matteo.

While Love, 50, is never far from the public spotlight, this will be her first major acting role in more than a decade.

Love's acting career began in the mid-80s when she was an art student in San Francisco. She was given the lead role in an Alex Cox film, which caught the attention of Andy Warhol, and she later appeared on an episode of Warhol's Fifteen Minutes. By the end of the decade, Love put acting on hold to pursue her music career.

She returned to acting several years later, taking on small roles before co-starring in the 1996 film The People vs Larry Flynt. Love earned a Golden Globe nomination for her role as Larry Flynt's wife.

She went on to star in Man on the Moon alongside Jim Carrey, and Beat with Kiefer Sutherland. Most recently, in 2002, she starred alongside Kevin Bacon and Charlize Theron in the poorly received crime thriller Trapped.

Love will not be the only singer to appear in the show's seventh season. Marilyn Manson has also signed on to play a reoccurring role as a powerful white supremacist in prison. Manson has acted previously in movies and TV shows including Jawbreaker, Eastbound & Down and Party Monster.