Divine

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Divine, Ricki Lake, and Jerry Stiller sit around a kitchen table set with food and drinks in a scene from the 1988 film Hairspray.

Divine, with dramatic makeup and long blond hair, grins while holding a pig's head in a scene from the film Pink Flamingos.

Divine

American actor

Also known as: Harris Glenn Milstead

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…and the larger-than-life drag queen Divine. Born Nancy Paine Stoll and Harris Glenn Milstead, respectively, they were given their stage names by Waters. Divine, whose style Waters has described as “Godzilla and Elizabeth Taylor put together,” shared Waters’s taste for the utterly distasteful.
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…and the larger-than-life drag queen Divine. Born Nancy Paine Stoll and Harris Glenn Milstead, respectively, they were given their stage names by Waters. Divine, whose style Waters has described as “Godzilla and Elizabeth Taylor put together,” shared Waters’s taste for the utterly distasteful.
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