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 sla...
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Patch Adams
As Aggie
54
As Disco Dottie
The Wedding Singer
As Rosie
Munchies
As Little Old Lady
Ready to Rumble
As Mrs. MacKenzie
Wedding Crashers
As Grandma Mary Cleary
Annie's Point
As Louise Tette
Not Another Not Another Movie
As Rose
The Blue Hour
Radioland Murders
As Organist
Road Trip
As Barry's Grandma
Going to the Chapel
As Grandma Haldane
The Invited
As Natalie Shaw
Frank the Bastard
As Dora
Eight Crazy Nights
As See's Candies Box (voice)
Longshot
As Ms. Fleisher
Carnival of Souls
As Mrs. Meltzer
Fat Girls
As Mildred
Space Case
As Betsy
Sister Act
As Choir Nun
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
As Choir Nun
Problem Child 3
As Lila Duvane
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
As Mrs. Coulson
My Blue Heaven
As Nun
Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling
As Mrs. Bessler
Six Feet Under
As Roberta
Seinfeld
As Momma
American Dad!
As Helen Washburn (voice)
Family Guy
As Elderly Woman (voice)
Star Trek: The Next Generation
As Felisa
In Case of Emergency
Judging Amy
As Mrs. Powell
The Golden Girls
As Mrs. Leonard
The Twilight Zone
My Name Is Earl
As Gertrude Balboa
The Nanny
As Wendell Kent's Mother (uncredited)
Cold Case
As Audrey Abruzzi (2007)
Las Vegas
Beauty and the Beast
Moonlighting
As Mrs. Baer
Cybill
Murder One
Quantum Leap
As Grandma
Newhart
Family Matters
The Wonder Years
As Mrs. Tambora
Hannah Montana
As Kathrine McCord
Scrubs
As Betty
Will & Grace
As Sylvia Walker
Just Shoot Me!
As Mrs. Gallo
ER
As Mrs. Riblet
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
As Connie Howard (segment "Mystery Lock")
New Girl
As Aunt Ruthie
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
As Old Lady
Hearts Afire
As Miss Abbington
On Our Own
As Little Old Lady #1
Payne
As Flo
Nikki
As Miss Marie
Hope and Gloria
As Miss Mae
The John Larroquette Show
As Old Woman
Murphy Brown
As Aunt Belle
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
As Mrs. Knapp
Wings
As Debbie
Dave's World
As Craft Granny
Suddenly Susan
As Lily
Shameless
As The Real Aunt Ginger
Ned and Stacey
As Mrs. Porter