
Ellen Albertini Dow
Actress
Born: November 16, 1913 (101 years old)
Died: May 4, 2015
Place of birth: Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography
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.
Filmography (60)
- Six Feet Under (2001, ★ 8.1)
- Seinfeld (1989, ★ 8.3)
- Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987, ★ 8.4)
- Patch Adams (1998, ★ 7.3)
- The Twilight Zone (1985, ★ 7.8)
- The Wedding Singer (1998, ★ 6.8)
- Sister Act (1992, ★ 6.8)
- American Dad! (2005, ★ 7)
- Family Guy (1999, ★ 7.4)
- Judging Amy (1999, ★ 7.5)
- The Golden Girls (1985, ★ 7.6)
- My Name Is Earl (2005, ★ 7.7)
- The Nanny (1993, ★ 8.1)
- Cold Case (2003, ★ 7.8)
- Moonlighting (1985, ★ 7.5)
- Murder One (1995, ★ 7.8)
- Quantum Leap (1989, ★ 8)
- The Wonder Years (1988, ★ 8.3)
- ER (1994, ★ 7.8)
- Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1996, ★ 7.8)
- Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide (2004, ★ 8.5)
- Shameless (2011, ★ 8.2)
- Scrubs (2001, ★ 8)
- 54 (1998, ★ 5.8)
- Wedding Crashers (2005, ★ 6.5)
- Beauty and the Beast (1987, ★ 7.4)
- New Girl (2011, ★ 7.4)
- Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993, ★ 6.4)
- Hannah Montana (2006, ★ 7.2)
- Road Trip (2000, ★ 6.2)