Cast & creator
Ellen Albertini Dow
Best known for Family Guy, Family Guy, American Dad!
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.
Also known as: The Rapping Granny, The Rapping Grandmother
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1982–2015 · acting roles
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Filmography (77)
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Family Guy
Elderly Woman (voice)
1999Family Guy
Aunt Helen (voice)
1999
American Dad!
Helen Washburn (voice)
2005
Shameless
The Real Aunt Ginger
2011
Seinfeld
Momma
1989
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Felisa
1987
Scrubs
Betty
2001
ER
Mrs. Riblet
1994
The Nanny
Wendell's Mother (uncredited)
1993
Las Vegas
Dottie Arkin
2003
Quantum Leap
Grandma
1989
Will & Grace
Sylvia Walker
1998
New Girl
Aunt Ruthie
2011
Cold Case
Audrey Abruzzi (2007)
2003
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Old Lady
1996
Judging Amy
Mrs. Powell
1999
The Wonder Years
Mrs. Tambora
1988
My Name Is Earl
Gertrude Balboa
2005
Wings
Debbie
1990
Six Feet Under
Roberta
2001
Family Matters
Miss Gilbert
1989
The Golden Girls
Mrs. Leonard
1985The Golden Girls
Lillian
1985The Golden Girls
Sarah
1985
The Twilight Zone
(segment "Need to Know")
1985The Twilight Zone
(segment "The Storyteller")
1985
Murphy Brown
Aunt Belle
1988
Arli$$
Amelia
1996
Newhart
Dorothy Benson
1982
Sister, Sister
Betty
1994
Moonlighting
Mrs. Baer
1985
Hannah Montana
Kathrine McCord
2006
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
Connie Howard (segment "Mystery Lock")
1997
Just Shoot Me!
Mrs. Gallo
1997
The John Larroquette Show
Old Woman
1993
Cybill
Elderly Woman
1995
Murder One
1995
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
Mrs. Knapp
2004
Dave's World
Craft Granny
1993
Nikki
Miss Marie
2000
Ned & Stacey
Mrs. Porter
1995
Suddenly Susan
Lily
1996
Hearts Afire
Miss Abbington
1992
Hope and Gloria
Miss Mae
1995
Wedding Crashers
Grandma Mary Cleary
2005
Sister Act
Choir Nun
1992
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Choir Nun
1993
On Our Own
Little Old Lady
1994
Patch Adams
Aggie
1998
Road Trip
Barry's Grandma
2000
The Wedding Singer
Rosie
1998
In Case of Emergency
2007
54
Disco Dottie
1998
Christine Cromwell
Lydia
1989Christine Cromwell
Nanny
1989
Eight Crazy Nights
See's Candies Box (voice)
2002
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Mrs. Coulson
1992
Problem Child 3
Lila Duvane
1995
Radioland Murders
Organist
1994
Payne
Flo
1999
Ready to Rumble
Mrs. MacKenzie
2000
My Blue Heaven
Nun
1990
Blood and Concrete
Old Lady
1991
Munchies
Little Old Lady
1987
Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling
Mrs. Bessler
2009
Not Another Not Another Movie
Rose
2011
Carnival of Souls
Mrs. Meltzer
1998
Going to the Chapel
Grandma Haldane
1988
Beauty and the Beast
Anna Lausch
1987
Longshot
Ms. Fleisher
2001
Frank the Bastard
Dora
2015
American Drive-In
Allison
1985
Annie's Point
Louise Tette
2005
The Blue Hour
Anabella
2007
The Invited
Natalie Shaw
2010
Space Case
Betsy
1992
Fat Girls
Mildred
2006