Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
11/16/1913
Place of Birth
Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, USA
Also Known As
The Rapping GrannyThe Rapping Grandmother
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 Sister Act. She was best known to small screen audiences for her guest appearances on sitcom The Golden...
Known For
Wedding Crashers
as Grandma Mary Cleary
Patch Adams
as Aggie
Road Trip
as Barry's Grandma
Sister Act
as Choir Nun
The Wedding Singer
as Rosie
The Invited
as Natalie Shaw
54
as Disco Dottie
Eight Crazy Nights
as See's Candies Box (voice)
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
as Choir Nun
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
as Mrs. Coulson
My Blue Heaven
as Nun
Munchies
as Little Old Lady
Problem Child 3
as Lila Duvane
Space Case
as Betsy
Blood and Concrete
as Old Lady
Ready to Rumble
as Mrs. MacKenzie
Not Another Not Another Movie
as Rose
Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling
as Mrs. Bessler
Frank the Bastard
as Dora
Annie's Point
as Louise Tette