The Wedding Singers Badass Rapping Granny Has Passed Away

August 2024 · 1 minute read
RIP.

Ellen Albertini Dow passed away on Monday at age 101, Deadline reports. The actress, who appeared in everything from Sister Act to Family Guy, will likely be best remembered as the “rapping granny” from The Wedding Singer, famous for a scene in which she raps the Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight.” She also appeared in Wedding Crashers as the foulmouthed homophobic grandma who made everyone extremely uncomfortable at dinner. Dow most recently guest-starred on New Girl in 2013. Here she is, in all her OG glory, getting down to “Rapper’s Delight”:

Wedding Singer Rapping Granny Has Passed Away

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