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Melissa Auf der Maur
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Melissa Gaboriau Auf der Maur (born March 17, 1972) is a Canadian musician, singer-songwriter, photographer and actress. Auf der Maur began performing in 1993 after forming the in…
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Melissa Gaboriau Auf der Maur (born March 17, 1972) is a Canadian musician, singer-songwriter, photographer and actress. Auf der Maur began performing in 1993 after forming the indie rock band Tinker while she was a student at Concordia University. She was recruited as the bassist for the American alternative rock band Hole in the summer of 1994 and is included on several Hole releases, including the album Celebrity Skin (1998). Following her departure from Hole in 1999, Auf der Maur briefly joined The Smashing Pumpkins as a touring member for its 2000 tour and began her solo career; her debut studio album, Auf der Maur, was released in 2004 on Capitol Records and her second studio album, Out of Our Minds, was released in 2010 on her own independent record label, PHI–MAdM Music. VH1 placed Auf der Maur at number 68 on its list of 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll in 2007. Auf der Maur is also a photographer and occasional actress. Her photographs have been included in National Geographic and exhibited at Sotheby's. She has acted in How to Make the Cruelest Month (1998), Beyond Borders (2003) and Collaborator (2011). As part of her 2009 multidisciplinary project Out of Our Minds—which produced an album, a single, a film and a comic book—Auf der Maur acted as a film and record producer, working alongside her husband and filmmaker Tony Stone. Stone and Auf der Maur are the creative directors and owners of Basilica Hudson, an arts and performance center in Hudson, New York.
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2026
Antiheroine
Movie Self
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2025
Greatest Basslines
TV show Self
- 2023
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2023
Buke & Gase
Movie Self
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2021
Ted K
Movie Executive Producer
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2019
Brainiac: Transmissions After Zero
Movie Self
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2017
Play Your Gender
Movie Self
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2016
Peter and the Farm
Movie Producer
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2015
Rammstein in Amerika
Movie Self
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2015
Cássia
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2012
Hit So Hard
Movie Self
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2011
Collaborator
Movie Alice Longfellow
- 2011
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2009
Out Of Our Minds
Movie Woman With Car / Cloak
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2005
The Zen of Screaming
Movie Herself
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2004
Luck
Movie Original Music Composer
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2003
Beyond Borders
Movie Charity Ball Band Bass Player
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2001
The Smashing Pumpkins - Greatest Hits Video Collection
Movie Herself
- 2001
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2000
The Smashing Pumpkins: Live In Tokyo
Movie Self
- 2000
- 1999
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1999
Hole: Big Day Out 1999
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1998
The Righteous Babes
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1998
How to Make the Cruelest Month
Movie Seven
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1995
Hole: MTV Unplugged
Movie Bass
- 1995
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1993
Late Show with David Letterman
TV show Self - Musical Guest
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1984
MTV Video Music Awards
TV show Self
