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—wh…

Movies & TV Shows

1. Beyond Borders (2003) — Charity Ball Band Bass Player
2. Late Show with David Letterman (1993) — Self - Musical Guest
3. Rammstein in Amerika (2015) — Self
4. MTV Video Music Awards (1984) — Self
5. Hit So Hard (2012) — Self
6. Cássia (2015) — Self (archive footage)
7. Collaborator (2011) — Alice Longfellow
8. The Smashing Pumpkins - Greatest Hits Video Collection (2001) — Herself
9. Brainiac: Transmissions After Zero (2019) — Self
10. Geddy Lee Asks: Are Bass Players Human Too? (2023)
11. How to Make the Cruelest Month (1998) — Seven
12. The Righteous Babes (1998) — Self (archive footage)
13. Play Your Gender (2017) — Self
14. Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock (2001) — Self
15. Hole: Live at The Metro (Chicago, 1994) (1995)
16. The Zen of Screaming (2005) — Herself
17. Hole: MTV Unplugged (1995) — Bass
18. Smashing Pumpkins: Stand Inside Your Love (2000)
19. Hole: Violet (1995) — Herself
20. Greatest Basslines (2025) — Self
21. Out Of Our Minds (2009) — Woman With Car / Cloak
22. Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind (2011) — Self
23. The Smashing Pumpkins: Live at Vredenburg 2000 (2000)
24. Buke & Gase (2023) — Self
25. The Smashing Pumpkins: Live In Tokyo (2000) — Self
26. Hole: The Electric Factory (1999)
27. Antiheroine (2026) — Self

Directed

1. The Smashing Pumpkins: Live In Tokyo (2000) — Director