Ellen Albertini Dow

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.

Known For

Aggie

Patch Adams

Disco Dottie

54

Rosie

The Wedding Singer

Little Old Lady

Munchies

Mrs. MacKenzie

Ready to Rumble

Grandma Mary Cleary

Wedding Crashers

Louise Tette

Annie's Point

Rose

Not Another Not Another Movie

The Blue Hour

Organist

Radioland Murders

Barry's Grandma

Road Trip

Grandma Haldane

Going to the Chapel

Natalie Shaw

The Invited

Dora

Frank the Bastard

See's Candies Box (voice)

Eight Crazy Nights

Ms. Fleisher

Longshot

Mrs. Meltzer

Carnival of Souls

Mildred

Fat Girls

Betsy

Space Case

Choir Nun

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

Choir Nun

Sister Act

Lila Duvane

Problem Child 3

Mrs. Coulson

Memoirs of an Invisible Man

Nun

My Blue Heaven

Mrs. Bessler

Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling