Ellen Albertini Dow
Acting
Born 1913-11-16 · 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.
Known for
Wedding Crashers
2005 · Movie
Sister Act
1992 · Movie
Road Trip
2000 · Movie
Patch Adams
1998 · Movie
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
1993 · Movie
The Wedding Singer
1998 · Movie
54
1998 · Movie
Space Case
1992 · Movie
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
1992 · Movie
My Blue Heaven
1990 · Movie
Radioland Murders
1994 · Movie
Eight Crazy Nights
2002 · Movie
Problem Child 3
1995 · Movie
Ready to Rumble
2000 · Movie
Longshot
2001 · Movie
The Blue Hour
2007 · Movie
Munchies
1987 · Movie
Blood and Concrete
1991 · Movie
Going to the Chapel
1988 · Movie
Annie's Point
2005 · Movie
Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling
2009 · Movie
Fat Girls
2006 · Movie
Carnival of Souls
1998 · Movie
The Invited
2010 · Movie
Not Another Not Another Movie
2011 · Movie
American Drive-In
1985 · Movie
Frank the Bastard
2015 · Movie