Ellen Albertini Dow
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...
Also Known As
The Rapping Granny, The Rapping Grandmother
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Ellen Albertini Dow's Movies
Wedding Crashers
13 Jul 2005
Patch Adams
25 Dec 1998
Sister Act
28 May 1992
Road Trip
19 May 2000
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
09 Dec 1993
The Wedding Singer
13 Feb 1998
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
28 Feb 1992
54
28 Aug 1998
Eight Crazy Nights
27 Nov 2002
My Blue Heaven
17 Aug 1990
Problem Child 3
13 May 1995
Ready to Rumble
07 Apr 2000
Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling
13 Jan 2009
Munchies
01 Mar 1987
Radioland Murders
21 Oct 1994
Carnival of Souls
21 Aug 1998
Not Another Not Another Movie
17 Oct 2011
Blood and Concrete
13 Sept 1991
The Invited
01 Jan 2010
Fat Girls
28 Apr 2006
Ellen Albertini Dow's TV Shows
Family Guy
31 Jan 1999
Family Guy
31 Jan 1999
Shameless
09 Jan 2011
American Dad!
06 Feb 2005
Seinfeld
05 Jul 1989
Star Trek: The Next Generation
28 Sept 1987
New Girl
20 Sept 2011
The Nanny
03 Nov 1993
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
27 Sept 1996
My Name Is Earl
20 Sept 2005
Six Feet Under
03 Jun 2001
The Wonder Years
31 Jan 1988
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
12 Sept 2004
ER
19 Sept 1994
Quantum Leap
26 Mar 1989
Hannah Montana
24 Mar 2006
Will & Grace
21 Sept 1998
Cold Case
28 Sept 2003
Moonlighting
03 Mar 1985
The Golden Girls
14 Sept 1985