
ActingBorn: 1913-11-16 in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, USA
Ellen Albertini Dow
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.
Featured Movies (27)

MOVIE
10.0Space Case
1992

MOVIE
7.3Patch Adams
1998

MOVIE
6.8Sister Act
1992

MOVIE
6.8The Wedding Singer
1998

MOVIE
6.5Wedding Crashers
2005

MOVIE
6.4Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
1993

MOVIE
6.3Road Trip
2000

MOVIE
6.1My Blue Heaven
1990

MOVIE
5.9Memoirs of an Invisible Man
1992

MOVIE
5.954
1998

MOVIE
5.8Radioland Murders
1994

MOVIE
5.8The Blue Hour
2007

MOVIE
5.7Longshot
2001

MOVIE
5.7Blood and Concrete
1991

MOVIE
5.6Annie's Point
2005

MOVIE
5.3Going to the Chapel
1988

MOVIE
5.2Eight Crazy Nights
2002

MOVIE
5.2Ready to Rumble
2000
Television & Series (50)

TV
9.0In Case of Emergency
2007

TV
8.5Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
2004

TV
8.4Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987

TV
8.3The Wonder Years
1988

TV
8.2Seinfeld
1989

TV
8.2Scrubs
2001

TV
8.2Shameless
2011

TV
8.1Six Feet Under
2001

TV
8.1The Nanny
1993

TV
8.0Quantum Leap
1989

TV
7.8ER
1994

TV
7.8Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
1996

TV
7.8Christine Cromwell
1989

TV
7.8Christine Cromwell
1989

TV
7.7Cold Case
2003

TV
7.7Murder One
1995

TV
7.7The Twilight Zone
1985

TV
7.7The Twilight Zone
1985