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Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 28, 1948
Place of Birth
Queens, New York, USA
Mercedes Ruehl
1.4 Popularity
Biography
Mercedes J. Ruehl is an American screen, stage, and television actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, two Obie Awards, and two Outer Critics Circle Awards. Her most acclaimed film role was in The Fisher King; her performance in the film earned her the 1991 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as an American Comedy Award, a Boston Society of Film Critics Award, a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, and a Golden Globe. Ruehl is known for her leading performance in the play Lost in Yonkers (1990) and supporting performance in the film The Fisher King (1991). Her other film credits include Big (1988), Married to the Mob (1988), Last Action Hero (1993), Roseanna's Grave (1997), and Hustlers (2019). She also played the mother of main character Vincent Chase in HBO's Entourage.
Known For
Credits
The Nana Project
as Nana
2023
4.5
Accused
as Connie
2023
7.0
Disclosure
as Self (archive footage)
2020
7.8
Hustlers
as Mother
2019
6.5
New Amsterdam
as Grace
2018
8.3
Bull
as Judge Tessa Hudson
2016
7.1
Bull
as Judge Hudson
2016
7.1
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Robin Williams: Behind Closed Doors
as Self
2016
0.0
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
as Self
2015
6.5
Life in Pieces
as Mia
2015
7.1
The Mysteries of Laura
as Val Santiani
2014
7.2
Chu and Blossom
as Mrs. Fefterg
2014
4.0
Star Spangled Banners
as Rosalind Banner
2013
5.6
Monday Mornings
as Judge Beverly Natheson
2013
7.1
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Doubt
as Mrs. Syd Newman
2013
0.0
2 Broke Girls
as Olga
2011
7.2
Doctors of the Dark Side
as Narrator
2011
6.8
Goldstar, Ohio
as Adriana Rock
2010
0.0
Loving Leah
as Janice
2009
6.9
Psych
as Detective Goochberg
2006
7.9
A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story
as Sylvia Guerrero
2006
5.3
Mom at Sixteen
as Terry Jeffries
2005
6.4
Entourage
as Rita Chase
2004
7.4
Zeyda and the Hitman
as Esther
2004
3.0
Bad Apple
as Lorraine Gibbons
2004
3.5
NCIS
as Marie Quinn
2003
7.6
Widows
as Dolly Rawlins
2002
0.0
Spooky House
as Boss
2002
5.9
Guilt by Association
as Susan Walker
2002
4.8
The Amati Girls
as Grace
2001
2.5
The Lost Child
as Rebecca
2000
6.0
More Dogs Than Bones
as Victoria 'Vic' Galletti
2000
4.6
What's Cooking?
as Elizabeth Avila
2000
5.5
All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story
as Jane Newhall
2000
4.4
The Minus Man
as Jane
1999
5.4
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Lucia Barba
1999
7.9
Out of the Cold
as Tina
1999
5.0
Gia
as Kathleen Carangi
1998
7.1
Subway Stories
as Leyla (segment "Underground")
1997
5.3
Roseanna's Grave
as Roseanna
1997
6.4
North Shore Fish
as Florence
1997
0.0
Indictment: The McMartin Trial
as Lael Rubin
1995
7.0
On Hope
1994
6.0
Frasier
as Kate Costas
1993
7.7
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
7.2
Last Action Hero
as Irene Madigan
1993
6.5
Lost in Yonkers
as Bella Kurnitz
1993
6.3
The Fisher King
as Anne
1991
7.3
Another You
as Elaine
1991
5.4
Law & Order
as Zina Rybakov
1990
7.4
Law & Order
as Clara Lloyd
1990
7.4
Crazy People
as Dr. Liz Baylor
1990
5.9
Crimes and Misdemeanors
as Party Guest (uncredited)
1989
7.4
Slaves of New York
as Samantha
1989
5.1
Married to the Mob
as Connie Russo
1988
5.9
Big
as Mrs. Baskin
1988
7.2
Leader of the Band
as Miss Cooper
1987
3.0
The Secret of My Success
as Sheila
1987
6.5
84 Charing Cross Road
as Kay
1987
7.2
Radio Days
as Ad Man
1987
7.0
Heartburn
as Eve
1986
6.0
Twisted
as Cybelle
1985
4.9
Mom's On Strike
as Sandy
1984
0.0
The Cosby Show
as Bernadette Foley
1984
7.0
Kate & Allie
1984
5.9
Four Friends
as Woman in Taxi
1981
6.8
The Warriors
as Policewoman
1979
7.7
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
as American girl in casino
1976
6.8
ABC Afterschool Special
as Sandy
1972
6.4
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Rebecca
1951
8.6
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People Not Places
N/A
0.0