Ellen Albertini Dow
Born in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, USA — Nov 16 1913• Died May 04 2015
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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 he…
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Family Guy
Elderly Woman (voice)
Shameless
The Real Aunt Ginger
American Dad!
Helen Washburn (voice)
Seinfeld
Momma
Scrubs
Betty
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Felisa
ER
Mrs. Riblet
New Girl
Aunt Ruthie
Quantum Leap
Grandma
The Nanny
Wendell Kent's Mother (uncredited)
Family Matters
Miss Gilbert
Will & Grace
Sylvia Walker
Cold Case
Audrey Abruzzi (2007)
Judging Amy
Mrs. Powell
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Old Lady
Las Vegas
Dottie Arkin
Wings
Debbie
The Wonder Years
Mrs. Tambora
My Name Is Earl
Gertrude Balboa
The Golden Girls
Mrs. Leonard
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
Connie Howard (segment "Mystery Lock")
Newhart
Dorothy Benson
Hannah Montana
Kathrine McCord
Arli$$
Amelia
Moonlighting
Mrs. Baer
The Twilight Zone
(segment "Need to Know")
Six Feet Under
Roberta
Just Shoot Me!
Mrs. Gallo
Cybill
Elderly Woman
Murphy Brown
Aunt Belle
Sister, Sister
Betty
Murder One
Dave's World
Craft Granny
The John Larroquette Show
Old Woman
Nikki
Miss Marie
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
Mrs. Knapp
Hearts Afire
Miss Abbington
Suddenly Susan
Lily
Ned & Stacey
Mrs. Porter
Hope and Gloria
Miss Mae
On Our Own
Little Old Lady
Sister Act
Choir Nun
In Case of Emergency
Wedding Crashers
Grandma Mary Cleary
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Choir Nun
Road Trip
Barry's Grandma
Patch Adams
Aggie
The Wedding Singer
Rosie
Christine Cromwell
Lydia
Payne
Flo
54
Disco Dottie
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Mrs. Coulson
My Blue Heaven
Nun
Problem Child 3
Lila Duvane
Eight Crazy Nights
See's Candies Box (voice)
Munchies
Little Old Lady
Blood and Concrete
Old Lady
Ready to Rumble
Mrs. MacKenzie
Space Case
Betsy
Longshot
Ms. Fleisher
Carnival of Souls
Mrs. Meltzer
The Invited
Natalie Shaw
Radioland Murders
Organist
Beauty and the Beast
Fat Girls
Mildred
Annie's Point
Louise Tette
Not Another Not Another Movie
Rose
Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling
Mrs. Bessler
Going to the Chapel
Grandma Haldane
Frank the Bastard
Dora
American Drive-In
Allison
The Blue Hour