
Ellen Albertini Dow
Born November 16, 1913 · Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Sister Act

Wedding Crashers

Road Trip

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

Patch Adams

The Wedding Singer

54

Memoirs of an Invisible Man

Problem Child 3

Ready to Rumble

Eight Crazy Nights

My Blue Heaven

Radioland Murders

Munchies

Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling

Blood and Concrete

Frank the Bastard

Not Another Not Another Movie

Fat Girls

Carnival of Souls

American Drive-In

Longshot

Going to the Chapel

Annie's Point

The Blue Hour

The Invited

Space Case
TV Shows

Star Trek: The Next Generation

ER

Cold Case

The Nanny

New Girl

Scrubs

Quantum Leap

Las Vegas

Sabrina, the Teenage Witch

Six Feet Under

Wings

Will & Grace

Hannah Montana

Judging Amy

Newhart

The Golden Girls

My Name Is Earl

Family Matters

Murphy Brown

The Wonder Years

Moonlighting

The Twilight Zone

Just Shoot Me!

Arli$$

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

Sister, Sister


















