Ellen Albertini Dow

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Known Credits 68

Gender Female

Birthday November 16, 1913

Day of Death May 4, 2015 (101 years old)

Place of Birth Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, USA

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The Rapping Granny
The Rapping Grandmother

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Ellen Albertini Dow

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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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Acting

2015

as Dora

2011		Not Another Not Another Movie as Rose
2011		New Girl (1 episode) as Aunt Ruthie
2011		Shameless (1 episode) as The Real Aunt Ginger

2010

as Natalie Shaw

2009

as Mrs. Bessler

2007		In Case of Emergency (1 episode)
2007		The Blue Hour

2006		Fat Girls as Mildred
2006		Hannah Montana (1 episode) as Kathrine McCord

2005		My Name Is Earl (1 episode) as Gertrude Balboa
2005		Wedding Crashers as Grandma Mary Cleary
2005		American Dad! (2 episodes) as Helen Washburn (voice)
2005		Annie's Point as Louise Tette

2004

(1 episode) as Mrs. Knapp

2003		Cold Case (1 episode) as Audrey Abruzzi (2007)
2003		Las Vegas (1 episode)

2002

as See's Candies Box (voice)

2001		Longshot as Ms. Fleisher
2001		Scrubs (1 episode) as Betty
2001		Six Feet Under (2 episodes) as Roberta

2000		Nikki (1 episode) as Miss Marie
2000		Road Trip as Barry's Grandma
2000		Ready to Rumble as Mrs. MacKenzie

1999		Judging Amy (1 episode) as Mrs. Powell
1999		Payne (3 episodes) as Flo
1999		Family Guy (1 episode) as Aunt Helen (voice) (1 episode) as Elderly Woman (voice)

1998		Patch Adams as Aggie
1998		Will & Grace (1 episode) as Sylvia Walker
1998		54 as Disco Dottie
1998		Carnival of Souls as Mrs. Meltzer
1998		The Wedding Singer as Rosie

1997		Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (1 episode) as Connie Howard (segment "Mystery Lock")
1997		Just Shoot Me! (1 episode) as Mrs. Gallo

1996		Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1 episode) as Old Lady
1996		Suddenly Susan (1 episode) as Lily

1995		Murder One (2 episodes)
1995		Ned and Stacey (3 episodes) as Mrs. Porter
1995		Problem Child 3 as Lila Duvane
1995		Hope and Gloria (1 episode) as Miss Mae
1995		Cybill (1 episode)

1994		Radioland Murders as Organist
1994		ER (1 episode) as Mrs. Riblet
1994		On Our Own (1 episode) as Little Old Lady #1

1993		Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit as Choir Nun
1993		The Nanny (1 episode) as Wendell Kent's Mother (uncredited)
1993		Dave's World (1 episode) as Craft Granny
1993		The John Larroquette Show (1 episode) as Old Woman

1992		Hearts Afire (1 episode) as Miss Abbington
1992		Sister Act as Choir Nun
1992		Memoirs of an Invisible Man as Mrs. Coulson
1992		Space Case as Betsy

1990		My Blue Heaven as Nun
1990		Wings (1 episode) as Debbie

1989		Christine Cromwell (1 episode) as Nanny (1 episode) as Lydia
1989		Family Matters (4 episodes)
1989		Seinfeld (1 episode) as Momma
1989		Quantum Leap (1 episode) as Grandma

1988		Murphy Brown (1 episode) as Aunt Belle
1988		Going to the Chapel as Grandma Haldane
1988		The Wonder Years (1 episode) as Mrs. Tambora

1987		Star Trek: The Next Generation (1 episode) as Felisa
1987		Beauty and the Beast (1 episode)
1987		Munchies as Little Old Lady

1985		The Twilight Zone (1 episode) as (segment "The Storyteller") (1 episode) as (segment "Need to Know")
1985		The Golden Girls (1 episode) as Sarah (1 episode) as Lillian (1 episode) as Mrs. Leonard
1985		Moonlighting (1 episode) as Mrs. Baer

1982

(1 episode) as Dorothy Benson (1 episode)

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