Ellen Albertini Dow
Known For
Acting
Born
1913-11-16 in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
Most Known For
Family Guy
as Elderly Woman (voice)
Family Guy
as Aunt Helen (voice)
Shameless
as The Real Aunt Ginger
American Dad!
as Helen Washburn (voice)
Seinfeld
as Momma
Star Trek: The Next Generation
as Felisa
The Nanny
as Wendell Kent's Mother (uncredited)
ER
as Mrs. Riblet
Scrubs
as Betty
New Girl
as Aunt Ruthie
Will & Grace
as Sylvia Walker
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
as Old Lady
Quantum Leap
as Grandma
Cold Case
as Audrey Abruzzi (2007)
Las Vegas
as Dottie Arkin
The Twilight Zone
as (segment "Need to Know")
The Twilight Zone
as (segment "The Storyteller")
The Wonder Years
as Mrs. Tambora
The Golden Girls
as Mrs. Leonard
The Golden Girls
as Lillian