Melissa Auf der Maur

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

24

Gender

Female

Birthday

1972-03-17 (53 years old)

Place of Birth

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Melissa Auf der Maur

Biography

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.

Known For

  • Saturday Night Live

    Saturday Night Live

  • MTV Video Music Awards

    MTV Video Music Awards

  • How to Make the Cruelest Month

    How to Make the Cruelest Month

  • Beyond Borders

    Beyond Borders

  • Collaborator

    Collaborator

  • Hit So Hard

    Hit So Hard

  • Rammstein in Amerika

    Rammstein in Amerika

  • Out Of Our Minds

    Out Of Our Minds

  • Geddy Lee Asks: Are Bass Players Human Too?

    Geddy Lee Asks: Are Bass Players Human Too?

  • Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind

    Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind

  • Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock

    Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock

  • Hole: MTV Unplugged

    Hole: MTV Unplugged

  • Brainiac: Transmissions After Zero

    Brainiac: Transmissions After Zero

  • Cássia

    Cássia

  • Smashing Pumpkins: Stand Inside Your Love

    Smashing Pumpkins: Stand Inside Your Love

  • The Smashing Pumpkins - Greatest Hits Video Collection

    The Smashing Pumpkins - Greatest Hits Video Collection

  • Hole: Live at The Metro (Chicago, 1994)

    Hole: Live at The Metro (Chicago, 1994)

  • The Righteous Babes

    The Righteous Babes

  • Play Your Gender

    Play Your Gender

  • The Smashing Pumpkins: Live at Vredenburg 2000

    The Smashing Pumpkins: Live at Vredenburg 2000

  • Hole: The Electric Factory

    Hole: The Electric Factory

  • The Smashing Pumpkins: Live In Tokyo

    The Smashing Pumpkins: Live In Tokyo

  • Buke & Gase

    Buke & Gase

  • The Zen of Screaming

    The Zen of Screaming