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
Family Guy
1999 · TV
Shameless
2011 · TV
Family Matters
1989 · TV
American Dad!
2005 · TV
Seinfeld
1989 · TV
Scrubs
2001 · TV
Ned & Stacey
1995 · TV
ER
1994 · TV
Newhart
1982 · TV
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987 · TV
Murder One
1995 · TV
Payne
1999 · TV
The Nanny
1993 · TV
Cold Case
2003 · TV
New Girl
2011 · TV
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
1996 · TV
Will & Grace
1998 · TV
Las Vegas
2003 · TV
Six Feet Under
2001 · TV
Quantum Leap
1989 · TV
Judging Amy
1999 · TV
My Name Is Earl
2005 · TV
The Wonder Years
1988 · TV
The Twilight Zone
1985 · TV
The Golden Girls
1985 · TV
Wings
1990 · TV
Moonlighting
1985 · TV
Hannah Montana
2006 · TV
Arli$$
1996 · TV
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
2004 · TV
Just Shoot Me!
1997 · TV
Sister, Sister
1994 · TV
Murphy Brown
1988 · TV
The John Larroquette Show
1993 · TV
Cybill
1995 · TV
In Case of Emergency
2007 · TV
Hearts Afire
1992 · TV
Dave's World
1993 · TV
Christine Cromwell
1989 · TV
On Our Own
1994 · TV
Suddenly Susan
1996 · TV
Beauty and the Beast
1987 · TV
Hope and Gloria
1995 · TV
Nikki
2000 · TV
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
1997 · TV