Ellen Albertini Dow
Known for Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
Wedding Crashers
2005
as Grandma Mary Cleary
Sister Act
1992
as Choir Nun
Road Trip
2000
as Barry's Grandma
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
1993
as Choir Nun
Patch Adams
1998
as Aggie
The Wedding Singer
1998
as Rosie
Munchies
1987
as Little Old Lady
54
1998
as Disco Dottie
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
1992
as Mrs. Coulson
Ready to Rumble
2000
as Mrs. MacKenzie
My Blue Heaven
1990
as Nun
Problem Child 3
1995
as Lila Duvane
Eight Crazy Nights
2002
as See's Candies Box (voice)
Blood and Concrete
1991
as Old Lady
Radioland Murders
1994
as Organist
Longshot
2001
as Ms. Fleisher
Carnival of Souls
1998
as Mrs. Meltzer
Going to the Chapel
1988
as Grandma Haldane
Frank the Bastard
2015
as Dora
Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling
2009
as Mrs. Bessler