Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
25
Gender
Female
Birthday
November 16, 1913 ( 102 years old )
Place of Birth
Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, USA
Also Known As
The Rapping Granny
The Rapping Grandmother
Ellen Albertini Dow
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
Patch Adams
1998-12-2554
1998-08-28The Wedding Singer
1998-02-13Munchies
1987-03-01Ready to Rumble
2000-04-07Wedding Crashers
2005-07-13Annie's Point
2005-01-22Not Another Not Another Movie
2011-10-17The Blue Hour
2007-01-01Radioland Murders
1994-10-21