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Biography
Nancy Paine Stoll (born August 25, 1947), better known as Mink Stole, is an American actress from Baltimore, Maryland. She began her career working for director John Waters, and has appeared in all of his feature films to date (a distinction shared only with Mary Vivian Pearce and Pat Moran). Because of her work with Waters, she is considered one of the Dreamlanders, Waters' ensemble of regular cast and crew members.
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
2016 | Difficult People | 1 episode |