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Ellen Albertini Dow
Actor

Ellen Albertini Dow

6 Movies
6 Credits
Personal Info
Known For Acting
Known Credits 6
Birthday November 16, 1913 (112 years old)
Place of Birth Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, USA
Also Known As The Rapping Granny, The Rapping Grandmother
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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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Filmography (72)

Frank the Bastard 2015
Not Another Not Another Movie 2011
New Girl 2011
Shameless 2011
The Invited 2010
Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling 2009
The Blue Hour 2007
In Case of Emergency 2007
Fat Girls 2006
Hannah Montana 2006
Wedding Crashers 2005
Annie's Point 2005
American Dad! 2005
My Name Is Earl 2005
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide 2004
Cold Case 2003
Las Vegas 2003
Eight Crazy Nights 2002
Longshot 2001
Six Feet Under 2001
Scrubs 2001
Ready to Rumble 2000
Road Trip 2000
Nikki 2000
Family Guy 1999
Judging Amy 1999
Payne 1999
Patch Adams 1998
54 1998
The Wedding Singer 1998
Carnival of Souls 1998
Will & Grace 1998
Just Shoot Me! 1997
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction 1997
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch 1996
Suddenly Susan 1996
Arli$$ 1996
Problem Child 3 1995
Cybill 1995
Murder One 1995
Hope and Gloria 1995
Ned & Stacey 1995
Radioland Murders 1994
ER 1994
Sister, Sister 1994
On Our Own 1994
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit 1993
The Nanny 1993
The John Larroquette Show 1993
Dave's World 1993
Space Case 1992
Sister Act 1992
Memoirs of an Invisible Man 1992
Hearts Afire 1992
Blood and Concrete 1991
My Blue Heaven 1990
Wings 1990
Seinfeld 1989
Quantum Leap 1989
Family Matters 1989
Christine Cromwell 1989
Going to the Chapel 1988
The Wonder Years 1988
Murphy Brown 1988
Munchies 1987
Star Trek: The Next Generation 1987
Beauty and the Beast 1987
American Drive-In 1985
The Golden Girls 1985
The Twilight Zone 1985
Moonlighting 1985
Newhart 1982
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