Ellen Albertini Dow

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' (qv), 'Martha Graham' (qv), 'Michael Shurtleff' (qv), 'Uta Hagen' (qv), 'Marcel Marceau' (qv), and 'Jacques Lecoq' (qv) in Paris. She was an acting coach before she made her debut film appearance in _American Drive-In (1985)_ (qv), and later became memorable as the rapping grandmother in _The Wedding Singer (1998)_ (qv), "Disco Dottie" in _54 (1998)_ (qv) and the homophobic grandmother in _Wedding Crashers (2005)_ (qv).::[email protected]