Ellen Albertini Dow

DOB: 1913-11-16

DOD: 2015-05-04

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.

Starred In

1998
Movie

Patch Adams

1998
Movie

54

1998
Movie

The Wedding Singer

1987
Movie

Munchies

2000
Movie

Ready to Rumble

2005
Movie

Wedding Crashers

2005
Movie

Annie's Point

2007
Movie

The Blue Hour

1994
Movie

Radioland Murders

2000
Movie

Road Trip

2010
Movie

The Invited

2015
Movie

Frank the Bastard

2002
Movie

Eight Crazy Nights

2001
Movie

Longshot

1998
Movie

Carnival of Souls

2006
Movie

Fat Girls

1992
Movie

Space Case

1992
Movie

Sister Act

1995
Movie

Problem Child 3

1990
Movie

My Blue Heaven

1989
Tv

Seinfeld

2005
Tv

American Dad!

1999
Tv

Family Guy

1999
Tv

Judging Amy

1993
Tv

The Nanny

2003
Tv

Cold Case

2003
Tv

Las Vegas

1985
Tv

Moonlighting

1995
Tv

Cybill

1995
Tv

Murder One

1989
Tv

Quantum Leap

1982
Tv

Newhart

2001
Tv

Scrubs

1998
Tv

Will & Grace

1994
Tv

ER

2011
Tv

New Girl

1999
Tv

Family Guy

1992
Tv

Hearts Afire

1994
Tv

On Our Own

1999
Tv

Payne

2000
Tv

Nikki

1988
Tv

Murphy Brown

1990
Tv

Wings

1993
Tv

Dave's World

2011
Tv

Shameless

1982
Tv

Newhart