Ellen Albertini Dow
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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Acting History
2015
Frank the Bastard as Dora
2011Not Another Not Another Movie as Rose
2011New Girl as Aunt Ruthie
2011Shameless as The Real Aunt Ginger
2010The Invited as Natalie Shaw
2009Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling as Mrs. Bessler
2007In Case of Emergency
2007The Blue Hour
2006Fat Girls as Mildred
2006Hannah Montana as Kathrine McCord
2005My Name Is Earl as Gertrude Balboa
2005Wedding Crashers as Grandma Mary Cleary
2005American Dad! as Helen Washburn (voice)
2005Annie's Point as Louise Tette
2004Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide as Mrs. Knapp
2003Cold Case as Audrey Abruzzi (2007)
2003Las Vegas as Dottie Arkin
2002Eight Crazy Nights as See's Candies Box (voice)
2001Longshot as Ms. Fleisher
2001Scrubs as Betty
2001Six Feet Under as Roberta
2000Nikki as Miss Marie
2000Road Trip as Barry's Grandma
2000Ready to Rumble as Mrs. MacKenzie
1999Judging Amy as Mrs. Powell
1999Payne as Flo
1999Family Guy as Elderly Woman (voice)
1999Family Guy as Aunt Helen (voice)
1998Patch Adams as Aggie
1998Will & Grace as Sylvia Walker
199854 as Disco Dottie
1998Carnival of Souls as Mrs. Meltzer
1998The Wedding Singer as Rosie
1997Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction as Connie Howard (segment "Mystery Lock")
1997Just Shoot Me! as Mrs. Gallo
1996Sabrina, the Teenage Witch as Old Lady
1996Suddenly Susan as Lily
1995Murder One
1995Ned & Stacey as Mrs. Porter
1995Problem Child 3 as Lila Duvane
1995Hope and Gloria as Miss Mae
1995Cybill as Elderly Woman
1994Radioland Murders as Organist
1994ER as Mrs. Riblet
1994On Our Own as Little Old Lady
1994Sister, Sister as Betty
1993Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit as Choir Nun
1993The Nanny as Wendell Kent's Mother (uncredited)
1993Dave's World as Craft Granny
1993The John Larroquette Show as Old Woman
1992Hearts Afire as Miss Abbington
1992Sister Act as Choir Nun
1992Memoirs of an Invisible Man as Mrs. Coulson
1992Space Case as Betsy
1991Blood and Concrete as Old Lady
1990My Blue Heaven as Nun
1990Wings as Debbie
1989Christine Cromwell as Lydia
1989Christine Cromwell as Nanny
1989Family Matters as Miss Gilbert
1989Seinfeld as Momma
1989Quantum Leap as Grandma
1988Murphy Brown as Aunt Belle
1988Going to the Chapel as Grandma Haldane
1988The Wonder Years as Mrs. Tambora
1987Star Trek: The Next Generation as Felisa
1987Beauty and the Beast
1987Munchies as Little Old Lady
1985The Twilight Zone as (segment "Need to Know")
1985The Twilight Zone as (segment "The Storyteller")
1985The Golden Girls as Mrs. Leonard
1985The Golden Girls as Lillian
1985The Golden Girls as Sarah
1985Moonlighting as Mrs. Baer
1982Newhart
1982Newhart as Dorothy Benson