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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Biography from TMDB.
- March 17, 1972 (54)
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Actor and producer
- 5 on MovieCove · 14 credits in all
Known for
What are Melissa Auf der Maur's films like?
Across their 6 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Society.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 5
A split, not a type: Light 0 · Serious 3 · Dark 2
Grounded 5 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 0
Gentle 1 · Charged 3 · Intense 1
Steady 3 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 5 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 0
Slow burn 5 · Even-paced 0 · Relentless 0
Casual 2 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 1 · Affecting 2 · Heavy 2
Resolved 2 · Open-ended 3 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Happy1
- Bittersweet3
- Tragic1
- Ambiguous1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Melissa Auf der Maur's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 3 of their 5 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (2).
Subscription and free streaming for Melissa Auf der Maur's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
14 credits, 5 with a MovieCove page; 15 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all shows
Ted K(2021)
Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all films
Peter and the Farm(2016)
Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all films
Collaborator (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
Out Of Our Minds (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)
Luck (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)
Beyond Borders(2003)
Midcredits score: 54th percentile of all films
The Smashing Pumpkins: Live In Tokyo (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)
The Smashing Pumpkins: Live at Vredenburg 2000 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)
Hole: The Electric Factory (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)
Hole: Big Day Out 1999 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)
Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all films
Hole: MTV Unplugged (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)
Hole: Live at The Metro (Chicago, 1994) (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)
Career shape
A full career of 14 titles from 1995 to 2023.
How do Melissa Auf der Maur's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 48th percentile, the median of all 4; across their 5 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 86th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up2
- 50th to 74th1
- 25th to 49th2
Shape of the crowd
2 of their 5 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved1
- Divisive1
- Crowd Pleaser2
- Broadly Agreed1
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Melissa Auf der Maur work with?
People who share at least 2 of Melissa Auf der Maur's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Tony Stone shares the most, 2.
Directors
- Tony StoneShared titles: Ted K (2021), Peter and the Farm (2016)See all 2 shared titles with Tony Stone
Cinematographers
- Nathan CorbinShared titles: Ted K (2021), Peter and the Farm (2016)See all 2 shared titles with Nathan Corbin
Producers
- Cameron BrodieShared titles: Ted K (2021), Peter and the Farm (2016)See all 2 shared titles with Cameron Brodie
- Jake PerlinShared titles: Ted K (2021), Peter and the Farm (2016)See all 2 shared titles with Jake Perlin
