Ellen Albertini Dow
Acting

Ellen Albertini Dow

Born 16 November 1913 · Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, USA · Died 4 May 2015

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
Wedding Crashers
Shameless
Sister Act
Patch Adams
Seinfeld
American Dad!
Road Trip
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
The Wedding Singer
Star Trek: The Next Generation
New Girl
Frank the Bastard
Not Another Not Another Movie
The Invited
Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling
The Blue Hour
Fat Girls
Wedding Crashers
Annie's Point
Eight Crazy Nights
Longshot
Ready to Rumble
Road Trip
Patch Adams
54
The Wedding Singer
Carnival of Souls
Problem Child 3
Radioland Murders
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Space Case
Sister Act
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Blood and Concrete
My Blue Heaven
Going to the Chapel
Munchies
American Drive-In
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