Biography

She was born into a large Roman Catholic family, and has nine siblings, including noted children's-book author Ellen Stoll Walsh and acclaimed artist George Stoll.

Mink is best known for her work in the films of close friend John Waters. Her film career began as a party guest in Waters' film Roman Candles. Since then, she has appeared in all of his feature films up to and including 2004's A Dirty Shame. The only Waters films in which she does not appear are the early short films Hag in a Black Leather Jacket, Eat Your Makeup, and The Diane Linkletter Story.

She has appeared in a number of films and television shows, and wrote a column for the Baltimore City Paper titled "Think Mink" until mid-April 2006. She is the lead singer of Mink Stole and Her Wonderful Band, of which musicians Kristian Hoffman, George Baby Woods, and Brian Grillo have been members. The Baltimore incarnation of Mink Stole and Her Wonderful Band (2009-present) includes Scott Wallace Brown (piano, organ), Walker Teret (upright bass, guitar), Skizz Cyzyk (drums), and John Irvine (trumpet).

In April 2009, Mink connected with cult director Steve Balderson for Stuck!, an homage to film noir women in prison dramas. Co-starring Karen Black, Pleasant Gehman and Jane Wiedlin, Stuck! was filmed in Macon, Georgia. Stole played Esther, a religious inmate sentenced to death. She co-starred with Natasha Lyonne in Joshua Grannell's All About Evil.

She received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 Boston Underground Film Festival in Cambridge following the East Coast Premiere of Stuck! on March 27, 2010. In 2011 she successfully completed a Kickstarter fundraising project to finance her first CD, titled Do Re MiNK. The CD was released on May 23, 2013.

Mink performs weddings as an ordained minister of the Universal Life Church.

Mink Stole has never married and has no children. She currently lives in Baltimore.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1966	Roman Candles	Party guest
1969	Mondo Trasho	Homeless woman Asylum inmate Snob #1
1970	Multiple Maniacs	Mink Cavalcade patron
1972	Pink Flamingos	Connie Marble
1974	Female Trouble	Taffy Davenport
1975	Love Letter to Edie	Blonde wicked stepsister
1976	Edith's Shopping Bag	Herself	Documentary
1977	Desperate Living	Peggy Gravel
1981	Polyester	Sandra Sullivan
1988	Hairspray	Tammy
1990	Cry-Baby	Mrs. Malnorowski
1991	Liquid Dreams	Felix
1994	Serial Mom	Dottie Hinkle
1995	Monster Mash: The Movie	Wolfie's mother
	The Crazysitter	The Nurse
	A Bucket of Blood	Old woman
1997	Pink as the Day She Was Born	Vera
	Lost Highway	Jury forewoman	Voice
	Leather Jacket Love Story	Martine
	The Seller	Aunt Betty
1998	Divine Trash	Herself	Documentary
	Anarchy TV	Ms. Dickman
	The Treat	Manageress
	Pecker	Precinct Captain
1999	Splendor	Casting director
	But I'm A Cheerleader	Nancy Bloomfield
	Forever Fabulous	Miss Vi Ambrose
2000	In Bad Taste	Herself	Documentary
	Cecil B. DeMented	Mrs. Sylvia Mallory
	The Rowdy Girls	Amanda
	Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th	Madame La Tourneau
2004	Eating Out	Aunt Helen
	Ring of Darkness	Fletcher
	Girl Play	Robin's mother
	A Dirty Shame	Marge the Neuter
2005	Flirting with Anthony	Psychic
2006	Another Gay Movie	Sloppi Seconds	Scenes deleted
	Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds	Helen
2007	Out at the Wedding	Sunny
	Sunny & Share Love You	School secretary Stole
	Pieces of Dolores	Mrs. Fletcher	Short film
2008	3 Stories About Evil	Pat Peeters	Short film
2009	Eating Out 3: All You Can Eat	Aunt Helen
2010	Stuck!	Esther
	All About Evil	Evelyn
	Bugbaby	Mrs. Tottifot	Short film Winner "Best Horror Short", 2011 Phoenix Film Festival Winner "Best Supporting Actress", 2012 Pollygrind International Film Festival
2011	Eating Out 4: Drama Camp	Aunt Helen
2012	Eating Out 5: The Open Weekend	Aunt Helen
2013	I Am Divine	Herself	Documentary

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Get a Life	Mrs. Wilson	1 episode
1995-1996	The Secret World of Alex Mack	Mrs. Ward	3 episodes
1997	Married... with Children	Edna	1 episode
2001	Spyder Games	Merna Young	1 episode

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