Ellen Albertini Dow
Acting • Born 1913-11-16 – Died 2015-05-04
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ellen Albertini Dow,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
78 credits
Patch Adams
Movie • 1998
Aggie
54
Movie • 1998
Disco Dottie
The Wedding Singer
Movie • 1998
Rosie
Munchies
Movie • 1987
Little Old Lady
Ready to Rumble
Movie • 2000
Mrs. MacKenzie
Wedding Crashers
Movie • 2005
Grandma Mary Cleary
Annie's Point
Movie • 2005
Louise Tette
Not Another Not Another Movie
Movie • 2011
Rose
The Blue Hour
Movie • 2007
Radioland Murders
Movie • 1994
Organist
Road Trip
Movie • 2000
Barry's Grandma
Going to the Chapel
Movie • 1988
Grandma Haldane
The Invited
Movie • 2010
Natalie Shaw
Frank the Bastard
Movie • 2015
Dora
Eight Crazy Nights
Movie • 2002
See's Candies Box (voice)
Longshot
Movie • 2001
Ms. Fleisher
Carnival of Souls
Movie • 1998
Mrs. Meltzer
Fat Girls
Movie • 2006
Mildred
Space Case
Movie • 1992
Betsy
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Movie • 1993
Choir Nun
Sister Act
Movie • 1992
Choir Nun
Problem Child 3
Movie • 1995
Lila Duvane
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Movie • 1992
Mrs. Coulson
My Blue Heaven
Movie • 1990
Nun
Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling
Movie • 2009
Mrs. Bessler
Blood and Concrete
Movie • 1991
Old Lady
American Drive-In
Movie • 1985
Allison
Six Feet Under
TV • 2001
Roberta
Seinfeld
TV • 1989
Momma
American Dad!
TV • 2005
Helen Washburn (voice)
Family Guy
TV • 1999
Elderly Woman (voice)
Star Trek: The Next Generation
TV • 1987
Felisa
In Case of Emergency
TV • 2007
Judging Amy
TV • 1999
Mrs. Powell
The Golden Girls
TV • 1985
Mrs. Leonard
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1985
(segment "Need to Know")
My Name Is Earl
TV • 2005
Gertrude Balboa
The Nanny
TV • 1993
Wendell Kent's Mother (uncredited)
Cold Case
TV • 2003
Audrey Abruzzi (2007)
Las Vegas
TV • 2003
Dottie Arkin
Beauty and the Beast
TV • 1987
Moonlighting
TV • 1985
Mrs. Baer
Cybill
TV • 1995
Elderly Woman
Murder One
TV • 1995
Quantum Leap
TV • 1989
Grandma
Newhart
TV • 1982
Family Matters
TV • 1989
Miss Gilbert
The Wonder Years
TV • 1988
Mrs. Tambora
Hannah Montana
TV • 2006
Kathrine McCord
Will & Grace
TV • 1998
Sylvia Walker
Just Shoot Me!
TV • 1997
Mrs. Gallo
ER
TV • 1994
Mrs. Riblet
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
TV • 1997
Connie Howard (segment "Mystery Lock")
New Girl
TV • 2011
Aunt Ruthie
Family Guy
TV • 1999
Aunt Helen (voice)
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
TV • 1996
Old Lady
Hearts Afire
TV • 1992
Miss Abbington
Payne
TV • 1999
Flo
Nikki
TV • 2000
Miss Marie
Hope and Gloria
TV • 1995
Miss Mae
The John Larroquette Show
TV • 1993
Old Woman
Murphy Brown
TV • 1988
Aunt Belle
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
TV • 2004
Mrs. Knapp
Wings
TV • 1990
Debbie
The Golden Girls
TV • 1985
Lillian
The Golden Girls
TV • 1985
Sarah
Dave's World
TV • 1993
Craft Granny
Suddenly Susan
TV • 1996
Lily
Shameless
TV • 2011
The Real Aunt Ginger
Ned & Stacey
TV • 1995
Mrs. Porter
Newhart
TV • 1982
Dorothy Benson
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1985
(segment "The Storyteller")
Christine Cromwell
TV • 1989
Lydia
Christine Cromwell
TV • 1989
Nanny
Sister, Sister
TV • 1994
Betty
On Our Own
TV • 1994
Little Old Lady
Arli$$
TV • 1996
Amelia
Scrubs
TV • 2001
Betty