Ellen Albertini Dow

Ellen Albertini Dow

Birthday: 1913-11-16

Deathday: 2015-05-04

Place of birth: Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, USA

Also known as: The Rapping Granny, The Rapping Grandmother

imdb_id: nm0016687

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.

Played in movies:

Patch Adams

Score: 7.3

The Blue Hour

Score: 7.0

Sister Act

Score: 6.8

The Wedding Singer

Score: 6.8

Wedding Crashers

Score: 6.5

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

Score: 6.4

Road Trip

Score: 6.2

My Blue Heaven

Score: 6.1

Annie's Point

Score: 6.0

Radioland Murders

Score: 5.9

Memoirs of an Invisible Man

Score: 5.9

54

Score: 5.9

Ready to Rumble

Score: 5.2

Eight Crazy Nights

Score: 5.2

Munchies

Score: 4.8

Problem Child 3

Score: 4.7

Longshot

Score: 4.6

Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling

Score: 4.5

Fat Girls

Score: 4.5

Carnival of Souls

Score: 3.7

Going to the Chapel

Score: 3.5

Not Another Not Another Movie

Score: 3.2

The Invited

Score: 3.2

Frank the Bastard

Score: 2.5

Space Case

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

In Case of Emergency

Score: 10.0

Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide

Score: 8.5

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Score: 8.4

The Wonder Years

Score: 8.3

Seinfeld

Score: 8.3

Shameless

Score: 8.2

Six Feet Under

Score: 8.1

The Nanny

Score: 8.1

Quantum Leap

Score: 8.0

Scrubs

Score: 8.0

ER

Score: 7.8

Sabrina, the Teenage Witch

Score: 7.8

Cold Case

Score: 7.8

Murder One

Score: 7.8

The Twilight Zone

Score: 7.7

The Twilight Zone

Score: 7.7

My Name Is Earl

Score: 7.7

Moonlighting

Score: 7.5

The Golden Girls

Score: 7.5

The Golden Girls

Score: 7.5

The Golden Girls

Score: 7.5

Judging Amy

Score: 7.5

Beauty and the Beast

Score: 7.4

Family Guy

Score: 7.4

Family Guy

Score: 7.4

New Girl

Score: 7.4

Christine Cromwell

Score: 7.3

Christine Cromwell

Score: 7.3

Hearts Afire

Score: 7.3

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

Score: 7.2

Ned and Stacey

Score: 7.2

Newhart

Score: 7.1

Newhart

Score: 7.1

Hannah Montana

Score: 7.1

Sister, Sister

Score: 7.0

Las Vegas

Score: 7.0

American Dad!

Score: 7.0

Will & Grace

Score: 6.8

Wings

Score: 6.8

Family Matters

Score: 6.7

The John Larroquette Show

Score: 6.7

Just Shoot Me!

Score: 6.6

Dave's World

Score: 6.4

Murphy Brown

Score: 6.4

On Our Own

Score: 6.0

Cybill

Score: 5.8

Suddenly Susan

Score: 5.7

Nikki

Score: 5.5

Hope and Gloria

Score: 5.0

Payne

Score: 1.0