Ellen Albertini Dow
Birthday
1913/11/16
Day of death
2015/05/04 (101 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, USA
Also know as
The Rapping Granny, The Rapping Grandmother
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 Sis...Read more
Acting
(1998) Patch Adams
as Aggie
(1998) 54
as Disco Dottie
(1998) The Wedding Singer
as Rosie
(1987) Munchies
as Little Old Lady
(2000) Ready to Rumble
as Mrs. MacKenzie
(2005) Wedding Crashers
as Grandma Mary Cleary
(2005) Annie's Point
as Louise Tette
(2011) Not Another Not Another Movie
as Rose
(2007) The Blue Hour
as ---
(1994) Radioland Murders
as Organist
(2000) Road Trip
as Barry's Grandma
(1988) Going to the Chapel
as Grandma Haldane
(2010) The Invited
as Natalie Shaw
(2015) Frank the Bastard
as Dora
(2002) Eight Crazy Nights
as See's Candies Box (voice)
(2001) Longshot
as Ms. Fleisher
(1998) Carnival of Souls
as Mrs. Meltzer
(2006) Fat Girls
as Mildred
(1992) Space Case
as Betsy
(1992) Sister Act
as Choir Nun
(1993) Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
as Choir Nun
(1995) Problem Child 3
as Lila Duvane
(1992) Memoirs of an Invisible Man
as Mrs. Coulson
(1990) My Blue Heaven
as Nun
(2009) Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling
as Mrs. Bessler
(2001) Six Feet Under
as Roberta
(1989) Seinfeld
as Momma
(2005) American Dad!
as Helen Washburn (voice)
(1999) Family Guy
as Elderly Woman (voice)
(1987) Star Trek: The Next Generation
as Felisa
(2007) In Case of Emergency
as ---
(1999) Judging Amy
as Mrs. Powell
(1985) The Golden Girls
as Mrs. Leonard
(1985) The Twilight Zone
as (segment "Need to Know")
(2005) My Name Is Earl
as Gertrude Balboa
(1993) The Nanny
as Wendell Kent's Mother (uncredited)
(2003) Las Vegas
as ---
(2003) Cold Case
as Audrey Abruzzi (2007)
(1987) Beauty and the Beast
as ---
(1985) Moonlighting
as Mrs. Baer
(1995) Cybill
as ---
(1995) Murder One
as ---
(1989) Quantum Leap
as Grandma
(1982) Newhart
as ---
(1989) Family Matters
as ---
(1988) The Wonder Years
as Mrs. Tambora
(2006) Hannah Montana
as Kathrine McCord
(2001) Scrubs
as Betty
(1998) Will & Grace
as Sylvia Walker
(1997) Just Shoot Me!
as Mrs. Gallo
(1994) ER
as Mrs. Riblet
(1997) Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
as Connie Howard (segment "Mystery Lock")
(2011) New Girl
as Aunt Ruthie
(1999) Family Guy
as Aunt Helen (voice)
(1996) Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
as Old Lady
(1992) Hearts Afire
as Miss Abbington
(1999) Payne
as Flo
(1994) On Our Own
as Little Old Lady #1
(2000) Nikki
as Miss Marie
(1995) Hope and Gloria
as Miss Mae
(1993) The John Larroquette Show
as Old Woman
(1988) Murphy Brown
as Aunt Belle
(2004) Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
as Mrs. Knapp
(1990) Wings
as Debbie
(1985) The Golden Girls
as Lillian
(1985) The Golden Girls
as Sarah
(1993) Dave's World
as Craft Granny
(1996) Suddenly Susan
as Lily
(2011) Shameless
as The Real Aunt Ginger
(1995) Ned and Stacey
as Mrs. Porter
(1982) Newhart
as Dorothy Benson
(1985) The Twilight Zone
as (segment "The Storyteller")