Ellen Albertini Dow(1913-2015)
- Actress
- Soundtrack
The multifaceted Ellen Albertini was a student of dance and piano at
the age of five, and obtained a B.A. and M.A. in theater from Cornell
University. She moved to New York, and studied and worked with the
legendary likes of Hanya Holm,
Martha Graham,
Michael Shurtleff,
Uta Hagen,
Marcel Marceau, and
Jacques Lecoq in Paris. She was an
acting coach before she made her debut film appearance in
American Drive-in (1985), and
later became memorable as the rapping grandmother in
The Wedding Singer (1998),
"Disco Dottie" in 54 (1998) and the homophobic
grandmother in
Wedding Crashers (2005).
