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Ellen Albertini Dow

1913 - 2015

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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 is best known as the rapping grandmother Rosie in The Wedding Singer (1998), performing "Rapper's 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ellen Albertini Dow has received more than 1,108,954 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Ellen Albertini Dow is the 5,597th most popular actor (down from 3,969th in 2019), the 8,341st most popular biography from United States (down from 6,179th in 2019) and the 2,636th most popular American Actor.

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  • 43.84

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  • 20

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  • 1.83

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  • 3.81

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Ellen Albertini Dow ranks 5,597 out of 9,996. Before her are Shari Headley, Ann Todd, Chace Crawford, Zeenat Aman, Danny Nucci, and Kathryn McGuire. After her are Charlotte Riley, Claudia Gerini, Sarah Carter, Yoon Eun-hye, Common, and David Paymer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Ellen Albertini Dow ranks 290. Before her are Maria Kwaśniewska, Red Skelton, Hans Schwartz, Ansa Ikonen, Roger Laurent, and Sammy Cahn. After her are Oswald Zappelli, Giorgio Bocchino, Arne Nyberg, Emmanuil Kazakevich, Frank Swift, and Joe Medicine Crow. Among people deceased in 2015, Ellen Albertini Dow ranks 343. Before her are Haskell Wexler, Bengt Berndtsson, Mary Ellen Mark, Gennadiy Seleznyov, Mwepu Ilunga, and Vladimir Kesarev. After her are Kim Fowley, Mate Trojanović, Josefa Francisco, Mark Murphy, Héctor Salva, and Karin Söder.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ellen Albertini Dow ranks 8,341 out of 18,182. Before her are Riley Steele (1987), Mr. Fuji (1934), Curtis Fuller (1934), Priscilla Chan (1985), Emma Smith (1804), and Doug Aldrich (1964). After her are Sumner Redstone (1923), Kim Fowley (1939), Bill Smith (1924), Stephen Colbert (1964), Aileen Riggin (1906), and Sheila Jordan (1928).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Ellen Albertini Dow ranks 2,636. Before her are Bruce Bennett (1906), James Gammon (1940), Billy Brown (1970), Shari Headley (1964), Chace Crawford (1985), and Kathryn McGuire (1903). After her are Common (1972), David Paymer (1954), Michael Rapaport (1970), Penny Johnson Jerald (1961), Ana Brenda Contreras (1986), and Marge Champion (1919).

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