Ellen Albertini Dow

Infobox actor
name=Ellen Dow
birthdate=birth date and age|1918|11|16
location=Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, USA
yearsactive=1985-present

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Ellen Albertini Dow (born November 16, 1918) is an American character actress.

She often portrays feisty old ladies and is perhaps best known as the rapping grandmother who performs in the feature film "The Wedding Singer". She also played a disillusioned, homophobic grandmother (much to the dismay of her gay grandson) in "Wedding Crashers" and a victim of Christopher Lloyd's slapstick in "Radioland Murders."

Additionally, on an episode of "Will & Grace", she portrayed the mother-in-law of Karen Walker, who referred to her as "the goiter." Upon inadvertently helping Will Truman muster some confidence, she becomes extremely upset when she realizes he's gay, exclaiming, "I helped a fairy get a date! Oh my God, I'm going to hell!"

She also played J. Peterman's dying mother on an episode of "Seinfeld". George tells her his secret ATM code ("BOSCO"), believing that she is unconscious. However she was not, and shouts out "BOSCO!", just before she dies. Dow also appeared in three episodes of "The Golden Girls", playing different characters in each one. She also guest starred in the Hannah Montana episode, Debt It Be. She also played a dying woman in the "Scrubs" episode, "My Faith in Humanity". She voiced Yzma's mother, Azma, on The Emperor's New School.

Earlier life

Dow was born in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania. She was educated at Cornell University where she was a member of Kappa Delta Sorority. She later taught drama and dance before her Hollywood career. She was married to Eugene Dow until his death in 2004.

External links

* [http://www.ellenalbertinidow.com/ Official site]
*imdb name | id=0016687 | name=Ellen Albertini Dow