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From the early years of
Dreamland, Mink Stole has appeared in nearly every
John Waters film, creating such memorable characters
as Taffy Davenport in Female
Trouble, Connie Marble in Pink
Flamingos, Peggy Gravel in Desperate
Living, and, more recently, Dottie Hinkle
in Serial Mom and Marge
the Neuter in A Dirty Shame.
Other roles include Natasha Lyonne's mom in Jamie
Babbit's But I'm A Cheerleader
and Robin Greenspan's mom in Lee Friedlander's
award-winning Girl Play.
On TV, Mink had a recurring role on Nickelodeon's
The Secret World of Alex Mack
and, in the summer of 2000, she was the oldest
living woman on MTV as Merna Young in MTV's
Spyder Games. She worked with the late
Charles Ludlam in the original New York productions
of Love's Tangled Web
and Secret Lives of the Sexists.
She preformed the role of Autolycus in the Los
Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company's production
of A Winter's Tale.
She created the role of Jill Johnson in the San
Francisco production of Ronnie Larsen's
Sleeping With Straight Men and continued
the role off-Broadway in 2003 and in Boston in
2005. Mink writes an on-line advice column, Think
Mink. With her Wonderful Band, Mink writes
and perfoms a series of one-woman shows, the most
recent of which is Do Re Mink!
Out At The Wedding is her second film with
director Lee Friedlander and her fourth film with
the producing team of Gina Goff and Laura Kellam.
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