# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ellen-albertini-dow
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:38:13.312Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ellen-albertini-dow"
name: "Ellen Albertini Dow"
slug: "ellen-albertini-dow"
description: "Ellen Rose Albertini Dow 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. She was best known to small screen audiences for her guest appearances on sitcoms The Golden Girls and Will & Grace."
tagline: "American actress (1913–2015)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/38YChRuDdcSwuJvg8cXbxtxgsFG.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1913-11-26"
deathDate: "2015-05-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump