Ellen Albertini Dow

Actor Nov 16 (died age 101) Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, USA 1982–2015 (33 year career)

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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 Sis…

Known For

Film

Patch Adams

Aggie

Film

Sister Act

Choir Nun

Film

Wedding Crashers

Grandma Mary Cleary

Film

The Wedding Singer

Rosie

Film

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

Choir Nun

Film

Road Trip

Barry's Grandma

Film

Memoirs of an Invisible Man

Mrs. Coulson

Film

54

Disco Dottie

Filmography

Acting (71)

Movies (26)

Frank the Bastard

2015

as Dora

2.5

Not Another Not Another Movie

as Rose

The Invited

as Natalie Shaw

Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling

as Mrs. Bessler

The Blue Hour

Fat Girls

as Mildred

Wedding Crashers

as Grandma Mary Cleary

Annie's Point

as Louise Tette

Eight Crazy Nights

as See's Candies Box (voice)

Longshot

as Ms. Fleisher

Road Trip

as Barry's Grandma

Ready to Rumble

as Mrs. MacKenzie

Patch Adams

as Aggie

The Wedding Singer

as Rosie

as Disco Dottie

Carnival of Souls

as Mrs. Meltzer

Problem Child 3

as Lila Duvane

Radioland Murders

as Organist

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

as Choir Nun

Sister Act

as Choir Nun

Space Case

as Betsy

Memoirs of an Invisible Man

as Mrs. Coulson

Blood and Concrete

as Old Lady

My Blue Heaven

as Nun

Going to the Chapel

as Grandma Haldane

Munchies

as Little Old Lady

Television (45)

Shameless

2011

as The Real Aunt Ginger

New Girl

as Aunt Ruthie

In Case of Emergency

Hannah Montana

as Kathrine McCord

American Dad!

as Helen Washburn (voice)

7.0

My Name Is Earl

2005

as Gertrude Balboa

7.7

Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide

2004

as Mrs. Knapp

8.5

Cold Case

2003

as Audrey Abruzzi (2007)

Las Vegas

as Dottie Arkin

Scrubs

as Betty

Six Feet Under

as Roberta

Nikki

as Miss Marie

Family Guy

as Elderly Woman (voice)

Judging Amy

as Mrs. Powell

Payne

as Flo

Will & Grace

as Sylvia Walker

Just Shoot Me!

as Mrs. Gallo

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

1997

as Connie Howard (segment "Mystery Lock")

7.2

Arli$$

1996

as Amelia

6.7

Sabrina, the Teenage Witch

as Old Lady

Suddenly Susan

as Lily

Ned & Stacey

as Mrs. Porter

Cybill

as Elderly Woman

Murder One

Hope and Gloria

as Miss Mae

as Mrs. Riblet

On Our Own

as Little Old Lady

Sister, Sister

as Betty

The Nanny

as Wendell Kent's Mother (uncredited)

8.1

The John Larroquette Show

as Old Woman

Dave's World

as Craft Granny

Hearts Afire

as Miss Abbington

Wings

as Debbie

Seinfeld

as Momma

Family Matters

as Miss Gilbert

Quantum Leap

as Grandma

Christine Cromwell

as Lydia

Murphy Brown

as Aunt Belle

The Wonder Years

as Mrs. Tambora

Star Trek: The Next Generation

as Felisa

Beauty and the Beast

The Twilight Zone

as (segment "Need to Know")

The Golden Girls

as Mrs. Leonard

Moonlighting

as Mrs. Baer

Newhart