Ellen Albertini Dow
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.
Notable Appearances
Movies
Wedding Crashers
Sister Act
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Patch Adams
Road Trip
The Wedding Singer
54
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Ready to Rumble
Problem Child 3
My Blue Heaven
Eight Crazy Nights
Munchies
Radioland Murders
Blood and Concrete
Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling
Frank the Bastard
Carnival of Souls
The Invited
Not Another Not Another Movie
Longshot
Going to the Chapel
Annie's Point
American Drive-In
Fat Girls
The Blue Hour
Space Case
TV Shows
ER
Star Trek: The Next Generation
The Nanny
Quantum Leap
Scrubs
New Girl
Cold Case
Wings
Murphy Brown
Newhart
The Wonder Years
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Las Vegas
Hannah Montana
Will & Grace
Six Feet Under
The Golden Girls
Judging Amy
Family Matters
My Name Is Earl
Just Shoot Me!
Dave's World
Arli$$
The Twilight Zone
Moonlighting
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
