Ellen Albertini Dow

from Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, USA

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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.

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Timeline

2015Aged 102

  • Poster for Frank the Bastard

    Dora

2011Aged 98

  • Poster for Not Another Not Another Movie

    Rose

2010Aged 97

  • Poster for The Invited

    Natalie Shaw

2009Aged 96

  • Poster for Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling

    Mrs. Bessler

2007Aged 94

  • Poster for The Blue Hour

    Anabella

2006Aged 93

  • Poster for Fat Girls

    Mildred

2005Aged 92

  • Poster for Annie's Point

    Louise Tette

  • Poster for Wedding Crashers

    Grandma Mary Cleary

2002Aged 89

  • Poster for Eight Crazy Nights

    See's Candies Box (voice)

2001Aged 88

  • Poster for Longshot

    Ms. Fleisher

2000Aged 87

  • Poster for Ready to Rumble

    Mrs. MacKenzie

  • Poster for Road Trip

    Barry's Grandma

1998Aged 85

  • Poster for The Wedding Singer

    Rosie

  • Poster for Carnival of Souls

    Mrs. Meltzer

  • Poster for 54

    Disco Dottie

  • Poster for Patch Adams

    Aggie

1995Aged 82

  • Poster for Problem Child 3

    Lila Duvane

1994Aged 81

  • Poster for Radioland Murders

    Organist

1993Aged 80

  • Poster for Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

    Choir Nun

1992Aged 79

  • Poster for Space Case

    Betsy

  • Poster for Memoirs of an Invisible Man

    Mrs. Coulson

  • Poster for Sister Act

    Choir Nun

1991Aged 78

  • Poster for Blood and Concrete

    Old Lady

1990Aged 77

  • Poster for My Blue Heaven

    Nun

1988Aged 75

  • Poster for Going to the Chapel

    Grandma Haldane

1987Aged 74

  • Poster for Munchies

    Little Old Lady

1985Aged 72

  • Poster for American Drive-In

    Allison