Ellen Albertini Dow
Actor
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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Filmography
Patch Adams
as Aggie 1998
Sister Act
as Choir Nun 1992
Road Trip
as Barry's Grandma 2000
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
as Choir Nun 1993
The Wedding Singer
as Rosie 1998
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
as Mrs. Coulson 1992
54
as Disco Dottie 1998
Eight Crazy Nights
as See's Candies Box (voice) 2002
My Blue Heaven
as Nun 1990
Problem Child 3
as Lila Duvane 1995
Ready to Rumble
as Mrs. MacKenzie 2000
Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling
as Mrs. Bessler 2009
Munchies
as Little Old Lady 1987
Radioland Murders
as Organist 1994
Carnival of Souls
as Mrs. Meltzer 1998
Not Another Not Another Movie
as Rose 2011