Mercedes Ruehl
Birthday
1948/02/28 (77 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Queens, New York, USA
Also know as
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Biography
Mercedes J. Ruehl is an American screen, stage, and television actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, two Obie Awards, and two Outer Critics Circle Awards. Her most acclaimed film role was in The Fisher King; her performance in the film earned her the 1991 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as an American Comedy Award, a Boston Society of Film Critics Award, a Los Angeles Film Critics...Read more
Acting
(1991) The Fisher King
as Anne
(2011) Doctors of the Dark Side
as Narrator
(1988) Big
as Mrs. Baskin
(1988) Married to the Mob
as Connie Russo
(2006) A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story
as Sylvia Guerrero
(1999) The Minus Man
as Jane
(1991) Another You
as Elaine
(1993) Last Action Hero
as Irene Madigan
(1993) Lost in Yonkers
as Bella Kurnitz
(2000) More Dogs Than Bones
as Victoria 'Vic' Galletti
(1987) 84 Charing Cross Road
as Kay
(1990) Crazy People
as Dr. Liz Baylor
(1997) Roseanna's Grave
as Roseanna
(1989) Slaves of New York
as Samantha
(2004) Bad Apple
as Lorraine Gibbons
(2004) Zeyda and the Hitman
as Esther
(1999) Out of the Cold
as Tina
(2000) All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story
as Jane Newhall
(2023) The Nana Project
as Nana
(2001) The Amati Girls
as Grace
(2002) Guilt by Association
as Susan Walker
(1994) On Hope
as ---
(2000) The Lost Child
as Rebecca
(2020) Disclosure
as Self (archive footage)
(2014) Chu and Blossom
as Mrs. Fefterg
(1987) The Secret of My Success
as Sheila
(1984) Mom's On Strike
as Sandy
(2009) Loving Leah
as Janice
(2005) Mom at Sixteen
as Terry Jeffries
(1985) Twisted
as Cybelle
(2013) Doubt
as Mrs. Syd Newman
(1998) Gia
as Kathleen Carangi
(2000) What's Cooking?
as Elizabeth Avila
(1989) Crimes and Misdemeanors
as Party Guest (uncredited)
(1995) Indictment: The McMartin Trial
as Lael Rubin
(1979) The Warriors
as Policewoman
People Not Places
as ---
(1987) Leader of the Band
as Miss Cooper
(1997) North Shore Fish
as Florence
(2002) Spooky House
as Boss
(2015) Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
as Self
(1986) Heartburn
as Eve
(2010) Goldstar, Ohio
as Adriana Rock
(2019) Hustlers
as Mother
(2016) Robin Williams: Behind Closed Doors
as Self
(1997) Subway Stories
as Leyla (segment "Underground")
(1987) Radio Days
as Ad Man
(1976) Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
as American girl in casino
(1981) Four Friends
as Woman in Taxi
(2013) Star Spangled Banners
as Rosalind Banner
(1984) Kate & Allie
as ---
(1990) Law & Order
as Zina Rybakov
(1984) The Cosby Show
as Bernadette Foley
(2004) Entourage
as Rita Chase
(1993) Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Rebecca
(1990) Law & Order
as Clara Lloyd
(1953) The Oscars
as Self
(1972) ABC Afterschool Special
as Sandy
(2002) Widows
as Dolly Rawlins
(2011) 2 Broke Girls
as Olga
(1993) Frasier
as Kate Costas
(1962) The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
(1999) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Lucia Barba
(2013) Monday Mornings
as Judge Beverly Natheson
(2015) Life in Pieces
as Mia
(2018) New Amsterdam
as Grace
(2003) NCIS
as Marie Quinn
(2016) Bull
as Judge Tessa Hudson
(2006) Psych
as Detective Goochberg
(2014) The Mysteries of Laura
as Val Santiani
(2016) Bull
as Judge Hudson
(2023) Accused
as Connie