Ellen Albertini Dow, Who Played Rapping Granny in ‘The Wedding Singer,’ Dies at 101
Source: The New York Times
Ellen Albertini Dow, who found acting success in her 70s and portrayed feisty grandmothers in the hit film comedies “Wedding Crashers” and “The Wedding Singer,” stealing the show in that one when she rapped onstage, died on Monday in Los Angeles. She was 101.
Her manager, Juliet Green, confirmed the death.
The sprightly Ms. Dow turned to film and television acting after retiring as a drama and acting teacher in the mid-1980s. She soon became a familiar guest star on television shows like “Seinfeld,” “Six Feet Under” and “My Name Is Earl,” and in films like “Road Trip,” “Patch Adams” and the two “Sister Act” movies.
Ms. Dow played a cocaine-abusing doyenne of disco in “54,” the 1998 paean to the nightclub Studio 54 starring Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek and Mike Myers. In “Wedding Crashers,” a 2005 Owen Wilson-Vince Vaughn comedy, she was the profane, homophobic matriarch of a blue-blooded family who insults her gay grandson during an excruciatingly awkward dinner.
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She was a joy to watch. My favorite scene with Ms Dow was in Will and Grace when she played Karen Walker's mother in law, "the goiter. " At a gay bar with Will and Jack she becomes outraged she helps Will get a date with a man
Deepest sympathies to her family and friends
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