Cookie Mueller
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Cookie Mueller (August 1 1949 - November 10 1989) was an American actress and writer who featured in many of filmmaker John Waters' early films including Multiple Maniacs, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble and Desperate Living.
From 1976 up until her death, she remained a close friend, artistic collaborator and photographic subject of Nan Goldin. Goldin created and widely exhibited The Cookie Portfolio 1976-1989, a series of 15 portraits, after Mueller's death. One photograph, "Cookie and Vittorio's Wedding" (1986) documents Mueller's wedding to Vittorio Scarpati, who died of AIDS just seven weeks before Mueller.
Mueller's books, Ask Doctor Mueller (1996), a collection of her writings, Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black (1990), a memoire, and Garden of Ashes (Hanuman Books, 1990) are cult classics.
She died from AIDS on November 10 1989 in New York City, aged 40; she was survived by her son, Max Mueller.
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