Ellen Albertini Dow

Acting

Born November 16, 1913, Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, USA

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

• 2015Frank the Bastard — Dora
• New Girl — Aunt Ruthie
• 2011Not Another Not Another Movie — Rose
• Shameless — The Real Aunt Ginger
• 2010The Invited — Natalie Shaw
• 2009Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling — Mrs. Bessler
• In Case of Emergency
• 2007The Blue Hour — Anabella
• 2006Fat Girls — Mildred
• Hannah Montana — Kathrine McCord
• American Dad! — Helen Washburn (voice)
• 2005Annie's Point — Louise Tette
• My Name Is Earl — Gertrude Balboa
• 2005Wedding Crashers — Grandma Mary Cleary
• Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide — Mrs. Knapp
• Cold Case — Audrey Abruzzi (2007)
• Las Vegas — Dottie Arkin
• 2002Eight Crazy Nights — See's Candies Box (voice)
• 2001Longshot — Ms. Fleisher
• Scrubs — Betty
• Six Feet Under — Roberta
• Nikki — Miss Marie
• 2000Ready to Rumble — Mrs. MacKenzie
• 2000Road Trip — Barry's Grandma
• Family Guy — Elderly Woman (voice), Aunt Helen (voice)
• Judging Amy — Mrs. Powell
• Payne — Flo
• 199854 — Disco Dottie
• 1998Carnival of Souls — Mrs. Meltzer
• 1998Patch Adams — Aggie
• 1998The Wedding Singer — Rosie
• Will & Grace — Sylvia Walker
• Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction — Connie Howard (segment "Mystery Lock")
• Just Shoot Me! — Mrs. Gallo
• Arli$$ — Amelia
• Sabrina, the Teenage Witch — Old Lady
• Suddenly Susan — Lily
• Cybill — Elderly Woman
• Hope and Gloria — Miss Mae
• Murder One
• Ned & Stacey — Mrs. Porter
• 1995Problem Child 3 — Lila Duvane
• ER — Mrs. Riblet
• On Our Own — Little Old Lady
• 1994Radioland Murders — Organist
• Sister, Sister — Betty
• Dave's World — Craft Granny
• 1993Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit — Choir Nun
• The John Larroquette Show — Old Woman
• The Nanny — Wendell's Mother (uncredited)
• Hearts Afire — Miss Abbington
• 1992Memoirs of an Invisible Man — Mrs. Coulson
• 1992Sister Act — Choir Nun
• 1992Space Case — Betsy
• 1991Blood and Concrete — Old Lady
• 1990My Blue Heaven — Nun
• Wings — Debbie
• Christine Cromwell — Lydia, Nanny
• Family Matters — Miss Gilbert
• Quantum Leap — Grandma
• Seinfeld — Momma
• 1988Going to the Chapel — Grandma Haldane
• Murphy Brown — Aunt Belle
• The Wonder Years — Mrs. Tambora
• Beauty and the Beast — Anna Lausch
• 1987Munchies — Little Old Lady
• Star Trek: The Next Generation — Felisa
• 1985American Drive-In — Allison
• Moonlighting — Mrs. Baer
• The Golden Girls — Mrs. Leonard, Lillian, Sarah
• The Twilight Zone — (segment "Need to Know"), (segment "The Storyteller")
• Newhart — Dorothy Benson