Ellen Albertini Dow

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1913-11-16 (102 years old)

Deathday

2015-05-04

Place of Birth

Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, USA

Ellen Albertini Dow

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 arti...

Acting

1998

Patch Adams

as Aggie

1998

54

as Disco Dottie

1998

1987

Munchies

as Little Old Lady

2000

Ready to Rumble

as Mrs. MacKenzie

2005

Wedding Crashers

as Grandma Mary Cleary

2005

Annie's Point

as Louise Tette

1994

2000

Road Trip

as Barry's Grandma

1988

Going to the Chapel

as Grandma Haldane

2010

The Invited

as Natalie Shaw

2002

Eight Crazy Nights

as See's Candies Box (voice)

2001

Longshot

as Ms. Fleisher

1998

Carnival of Souls

as Mrs. Meltzer

2006

Fat Girls

as Mildred

1992

Space Case

as Betsy

1992

Sister Act

as Choir Nun

1995

Problem Child 3

as Lila Duvane

1992

1990

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