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.

Filmography

• Geddy Lee Asks: Are Bass Players Human Too?
• 2021Ted K — Executive Producer
• 2016Peter and the Farm — Producer
• 2011Collaborator — Alice Longfellow
• 2009Out Of Our Minds — Woman With Car / Cloak, Story, Producer
• 2004Luck — Original Music Composer
• 2003Beyond Borders — Charity Ball Band Bass Player
• 2000The Smashing Pumpkins: Live In Tokyo — Self, Director
• 2000The Smashing Pumpkins: Live at Vredenburg 2000
• 1999Hole: Big Day Out 1999
• 1999Hole: The Electric Factory
• 1998How to Make the Cruelest Month — Seven
• 1995Hole: Live at The Metro (Chicago, 1994)
• 1995Hole: MTV Unplugged — Bass

Appearances as themselves (15)

• 2026Antiheroine — Self
• Greatest Basslines — Self
• 2023Buke & Gase — Self
• 2019Brainiac: Transmissions After Zero — Self
• 2017Play Your Gender — Self
• 2015Cássia — Self (archive footage)
• 2015Rammstein in Amerika — Self
• 2012Hit So Hard — Self
• 2011Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind — Self
• 2005The Zen of Screaming — Herself
• 2001Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock — Self
• 2001The Smashing Pumpkins - Greatest Hits Video Collection — Herself
• 1998The Righteous Babes — Self (archive footage)
• Late Show with David Letterman — Self - Musical Guest
• MTV Video Music Awards — Self