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Ellen Albertini Dow
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American actress (1913–2015)
Film & TV
Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, USA
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,…
Known for
- Frank the Bastard — Dora2015
- Not Another Not Another Movie — Rose2011
- New Girl — Aunt Ruthie2011
- Shameless — The Real Aunt Ginger2011
- The Invited — Natalie Shaw2010
- Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling — Mrs. Bessler2009
- The Blue Hour — Anabella2007
- In Case of Emergency2007
- Fat Girls — Mildred2006
- Hannah Montana — Kathrine McCord2006
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1913-11-16
- Active to
- 2015-05-04
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 914
- Total plays
- 2,413
Tags
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ellen
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Mount Carmel
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- theatrical director
- Educated at
- Cornell University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
Show 9 more facts
- date of birth
- 1913-11-26
- date of death
- 2015-05-04
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- name in native language
- Ellen Albertini Dow
- start of work period
- 1985-00-00
- end of work period
- 2015-00-00
- subject has role
- centenarian
- writing language
- English language
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