Ellen Albertini Dow
Born: 1913-11-16
Place of Birth: Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, USA
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 article Ellen Albertini Dow,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Sister Act
Wedding Crashers
Road Trip
Patch Adams
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
The Wedding Singer
Munchies
Space Case
My Blue Heaven
54
The Blue Hour
Problem Child 3
Fat Girls
Eight Crazy Nights
Ready to Rumble
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling
Frank the Bastard
Radioland Murders
Blood and Concrete
Going to the Chapel
Annie's Point
Carnival of Souls
Longshot
Not Another Not Another Movie
