Ellen Albertini Dow
Known for: Actress
Born: 16 November 1913, Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 4 May 2015
Credits: 60+ titles
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
Frank the Bastard
Not Another Not Another Movie
New Girl
Shameless
The Invited
Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling
In Case of Emergency
The Blue Hour
Fat Girls
Hannah Montana
My Name Is Earl
Wedding Crashers
American Dad!
Annie's Point
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
Cold Case
Las Vegas
Eight Crazy Nights
Longshot
Scrubs
Six Feet Under
Nikki
Road Trip
Ready to Rumble
Judging Amy
Payne
Family Guy
Patch Adams
Will & Grace
54
Carnival of Souls
The Wedding Singer
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
Just Shoot Me!
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Suddenly Susan
Arli$$
Murder One
Ned & Stacey
Problem Child 3
Hope and Gloria
Cybill
Radioland Murders
ER
On Our Own
Sister, Sister
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
The Nanny
Dave's World
The John Larroquette Show
Hearts Afire
Sister Act
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Space Case
Blood and Concrete
My Blue Heaven
Wings
Christine Cromwell
Family Matters
Seinfeld