Melissa Auf der Maur
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 | Acting |
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Most Rating | 4.225 |
Birthday | 1972-03-17 |
Place of Birth | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
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2001
The Smashing Pumpkins - Greatest Hits Video Collection
8.3/6
Released alongside The Smashing Pumpkins greatest hits CD "Rotten Apples", this video collection comes with all of the Pumpkins music videos (excludin...
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2011
Collaborator
4.7/14
A playwright whose marriage and career are in a free fall has an explosive run-in with his former neighbor, a right-wing ex-con.
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2005
The Zen of Screaming
10/1
In the early '90s, a passionate and unrestrained movement of singers emerged from the underground that would test the extreme limits of the human voic...
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2019
Brainiac: Transmissions After Zero
7.8/5
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2015
Rammstein in Amerika
7.98/51
The concert film celebrates the band’s legendary show in New York’s Madison Square Garden – Rammstein’s return to the US after a ten-year absence. In...
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1995
Hole: MTV Unplugged
10/1
On February 14, 1995, Hole recorded a live acoustic performance in front of an audience at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City. Along with...
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2012
Hit So Hard
5.194/18
The rise to fame (and the near-fatal fall from it) of Patty Schemel, drummer for Courtney Love's seminal rock band, Hole. Given a Hi-8 video camera ju...
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1998
How to Make the Cruelest Month
1/1
Bright and neurotic girl Bell sets two goals for New Year - to quit smoking and to fall in love. As the first task turns out to be too difficult, she...
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2003
Beyond Borders
6.4/394
Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in 1984, is married to the son of a wealthy British industrialist. She encounters Nick Callahan, a renegade...
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1998
The Righteous Babes
1/1
The Righteous Babes shows how the self-affirmative music of young women is renewing the 90's feminism. In the film, audience can experience feminism n...
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2015
Cássia
7.8/16
Cássia Eller Rejane. Cássia Eller. Cássia. A powerful restless force on stage, shined herself out of it. One of the greats of Brazilian music, Cássia...
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Kiss My Grits: The Herstory of Women in Punk and Hard Rock
0/0
Part of "The Women in Music" series
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2017
Play Your Gender
5/3
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2009
Out Of Our Minds
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A fantasy world spawned from sound. Three time periods and three narratives, one connection-blood. At the center of this life force is the heart.
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1995
Hole - Live at The Metro (Chicago, 1994)
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Hole's performance at The Metro on October 21, 1994. The show was taped and then broadcast on "ABC In Concert" in 1995.
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2011
Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind
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Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind visually documents the explosion of Grunge, the Seattle Sound, within the context of the undergr...
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