LOS ANGELES, May 6 (UPI) -- Ellen Albertini Dow, who stole Adam Sandler's The Wedding Singer with her rendition of "Rapper's Delight," died Monday. She was 101.
Dow's manager Juliet Green confirmed her death to Deadline on Tuesday.
Dow, who was born in 1913 in Mount Carmel, Pa., studied acting in New York City and worked with mime Marcel Marceau in Paris.
She married fellow actor Eugene Dow in 1951 and moved to California, where she taught drama and theater. Dow and her husband also founded a theater program at Pierce College in Los Angeles.
Dow found consistent work as a character actor well into her career. She earned her first on-screen credit in 1985 and went on to star in numerous films and television shows, including Wedding Crashers and Sister Act.
Dow specialized in playing lively elderly women, particularly in The Wedding Singer, in which her performance of The Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" became an iconic movie moment.
Dow's agent Michael Greene told Deadline that the actress "had a huge heart and loved making everyone laugh and smile."
"We will miss her greatly, and we will always remember her for the laughter she brought us all," Greene said.
