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 . She was in Newheart 1986 Episode "Utley Exposed"
Albertini was born on November 16, 1913, in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, the seventh and youngest child of Italian immigrant parents, Ellen and Oliver, from Non Valley, Trentino. She studied dance and piano at age five and would later move to New York City, where she studied and worked with renowned dancers and choreographers Hanya Holm and Martha Graham.
| Date of Birth | 26th November 1913 |
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| Date of Death | 4th May 2015 |
| Age at Death | 101 Years |
| Zodiac Sign | Sagittarius |
| Country | United States of America |
| Current City | Mount Carmel |
| Birth Place | Mount Carmel |
| Death Place | Los Angeles |
| Nationality | United States of America |
| Citizenship | United States of America |
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| Education |
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| Cornell University |
| Occupation | stage actor, film actor, television actor, choreographer, actor, theatrical director |
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