Ellen Albertini Dow
b. 1913 — d. 2015 (aged 102)
Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, USA
Actress
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Ellen Rose Albertini Dow (November 16, 1913 – May 4, 2015) was an American film and television character actress and drama coach. She portrayed feisty old ladies and may be best known as the rapping grandmother Rosie in The Wedding Singer (1998), performing "Rappers Delight". Dow's other film roles include elderly lady Mary Cleary who "outs" her grandson in Wedding Crashers, Disco Dottie in 54, the recipient of Christopher Lloyd's character's slapstick in Radioland Murders and a choir nun in Sister Act. She was best known to small screen audiences for her guest appearances on sitcom The Golden Girls. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ellen Albertini Dow,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
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★ 5.0
Frank the Bastard
2013 Actress
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★ 4.1
The Invited
2010 Actress
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★ 5.2
Lonely Street
2008 Actress
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★ 6.9
The Blue Hour
2007 Actress
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★ 7.0
Wedding Crashers
2005 Actress
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★ 6.9
Annie's Point
2005 Actress
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★ 6.6
Halfway Decent
2005 Actress
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★ 2.6
Longshot
2001 Actress
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★ 7.2
Maybe It's Me
2001 Actress
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Conundrum
2000 Actress
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★ 3.7
Payne
1999 Actress
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★ 6.9
The Wedding Singer
1998 Actress
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★ 5.9
54
1998 Actress
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★ 8.1
Murder One: Diary of a Serial Killer
1997 Actress
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★ 7.0
The Building
1993 Actress
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★ 6.6
Sister Act
1992 Actress
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★ 6.0
K-9
1991 Actress
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★ 7.4
Christine Cromwell
1989 Actress
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★ 7.7
The Twilight Zone
1985 Actress