Ellen Albertini Dow
Born: 1913-11-16
• 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.
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Filmography
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
Road Trip
Ready to Rumble
Patch Adams
54
Carnival of Souls
The Wedding Singer
Problem Child 3
Radioland Murders
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Sister Act
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Space Case
Blood and Concrete
My Blue Heaven
Going to the Chapel
Munchies
American Drive-In