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Ellen Albertini Dow

1913-11-16

The 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 Girls. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ellen Albertini Dow,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Sister Act

6.83 average rating
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Patch Adams

7.311 average rating
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Road Trip

6.192 average rating
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Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

6.4 average rating
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Wedding Crashers

6.5 average rating
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The Wedding Singer

6.8 average rating
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Memoirs of an Invisible Man

5.9 average rating
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Eight Crazy Nights

5.2 average rating
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My Blue Heaven

6.1 average rating
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Problem Child 3

4.6 average rating
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54

5.8 average rating
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Ready to Rumble

5.219 average rating
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Munchies

4.9 average rating
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Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling

4.6 average rating
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Radioland Murders

6 average rating
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Frank the Bastard

3 average rating
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Carnival of Souls

3.7 average rating
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Not Another Not Another Movie

3.4 average rating
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Going to the Chapel

5 average rating
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Longshot

5.8 average rating