Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 16, 1913
Place of Birth
Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, USA
Also Known As
- The Rapping Granny
- The Rapping Grandmother
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.
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Known For - Movies
Wedding Crashers
as Grandma Mary Cleary
Road Trip
as Barry's Grandma
Patch Adams
as Aggie
Sister Act
as Choir Nun
The Wedding Singer
as Rosie
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
as Choir Nun
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
as Mrs. Coulson
54
as Disco Dottie
My Blue Heaven
as Nun
Radioland Murders
as Organist
Known For - TV Shows
Shameless
as The Real Aunt Ginger
Family Guy
as Elderly Woman (voice)
Family Guy
as Aunt Helen (voice)
American Dad!
as Helen Washburn (voice)
Seinfeld
as Momma
Scrubs
as Betty
ER
as Mrs. Riblet
Star Trek: The Next Generation
as Felisa
The Nanny
as Wendell Kent's Mother (uncredited)
Cold Case
as Audrey Abruzzi (2007)