Ellen Albertini Dow
Known for ActingBorn 1913-11-16 — died 2015-05-04Mount 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.
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Known for
Sister Act
1992 · as Choir Nun
Wedding Crashers
2005 · as Grandma Mary Cleary
Road Trip
2000 · as Barry's Grandma
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
1993 · as Choir Nun
Patch Adams
1998 · as Aggie
The Wedding Singer
1998 · as Rosie
Problem Child 3
1995 · as Lila Duvane
54
1998 · as Disco Dottie
My Blue Heaven
1990 · as Nun
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
1992 · as Mrs. Coulson
Eight Crazy Nights
2002 · as See's Candies Box (voice)
Ready to Rumble
2000 · as Mrs. MacKenzie
Munchies
1987 · as Little Old Lady
Blood and Concrete
1991 · as Old Lady
Radioland Murders
1994 · as Organist
Carnival of Souls
1998 · as Mrs. Meltzer
Frank the Bastard
2015 · as Dora
Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling
2009 · as Mrs. Bessler