Ellen Albertini Dow
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Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
Appearances
7.3
Patch Adams
Aggie
5.9
54
Disco Dottie
6.8
The Wedding Singer
Rosie
4.8
Munchies
Little Old Lady
5.2
Ready to Rumble
Mrs. MacKenzie
6.5
Wedding Crashers
Grandma Mary Cleary
5.6
Annie's Point
Louise Tette
3.2
Not Another Not Another Movie
Rose
7.0
The Blue Hour
Anabella
5.9
Radioland Murders
Organist
6.2
Road Trip
Barry's Grandma
5.3
Going to the Chapel
Grandma Haldane
2.5
Frank the Bastard
Dora
3.9
The Invited
Natalie Shaw
5.2
Eight Crazy Nights
See's Candies Box (voice)
5.7
Longshot
Ms. Fleisher
3.8
Carnival of Souls
Mrs. Meltzer
4.7
Fat Girls
Mildred
10.0
Space Case
Betsy
6.8
Sister Act
Choir Nun
6.4
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Choir Nun
4.8
Problem Child 3
Lila Duvane
5.9
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Mrs. Coulson
6.1
My Blue Heaven
Nun
4.5
Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling
Mrs. Bessler
5.7
Blood and Concrete
Old Lady
2.9
American Drive-In
Allison
8.1
Six Feet Under
Roberta
8.3
Seinfeld
Momma
7.0
American Dad!
Helen Washburn (voice)
7.4
Family Guy
Elderly Woman (voice)
8.4
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Felisa
9.0
In Case of Emergency
7.5
Judging Amy
Mrs. Powell
7.6
The Golden Girls
Mrs. Leonard
7.7
The Twilight Zone
(segment "Need to Know")
7.7
My Name Is Earl
Gertrude Balboa
8.1
The Nanny
Wendell Kent's Mother (uncredited)
7.8
Cold Case
Audrey Abruzzi (2007)
7.0
Las Vegas
Dottie Arkin
7.5
Moonlighting
Mrs. Baer
5.9
Cybill
Elderly Woman
7.7
Murder One
8.0
Quantum Leap
Grandma
6.8
Family Matters
Miss Gilbert
8.3
The Wonder Years
Mrs. Tambora
7.2
Hannah Montana
Kathrine McCord
6.9
Will & Grace
Sylvia Walker
6.6
Just Shoot Me!
Mrs. Gallo
7.8
ER
Mrs. Riblet
7.2
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
Connie Howard (segment "Mystery Lock")
7.4
New Girl
Aunt Ruthie
7.4
Family Guy
Aunt Helen (voice)
7.8
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Old Lady
7.8
Hearts Afire
Miss Abbington
4.0
Payne
Flo
5.9
Nikki
Miss Marie
6.3
Hope and Gloria
Miss Mae
6.8
The John Larroquette Show
Old Woman
6.4
Murphy Brown
Aunt Belle
8.5
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
Mrs. Knapp
6.8
Wings
Debbie
7.6
The Golden Girls
Lillian
7.6
The Golden Girls
Sarah
6.5
Dave's World
Craft Granny
5.9
Suddenly Susan
Lily
8.2
Shameless
The Real Aunt Ginger
7.2
Ned & Stacey
Mrs. Porter
7.1
Newhart
Dorothy Benson
7.7
The Twilight Zone
(segment "The Storyteller")
7.8
Christine Cromwell
Lydia
7.8
Christine Cromwell
Nanny
7.1
Sister, Sister
Betty
7.0
On Our Own
Little Old Lady
6.8
Arli$$
Amelia
8.2
Scrubs
Betty
7.4
Beauty and the Beast
Anna Lausch