Mercedes Ruehl

LAST SHOW:

The American Plan

DATE OF BIRTH:

02/28/1948

BIO

Mercedes Ruehl came to prominence in Jonathan Demme's Married to the Mob. She earned an Academy Award, Golden Globe, L.A. and Chicago Film Critics Society awards for her role in The Fisher King. Other films include Warriors, Big, Heartburn, Slaves of New York, Another You, Last Action Hero, Lost in Yonkers, What's Cooking, The Amati Girls, For Rosanna and The Minus Man. Her career was launched in regional repertories in the works of Shakespeare, Moliere, Shaw, Chekhov and Euripides, and she went on to receive Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Helen Hayes awards for her role in Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers, later reprising her role in the film. Other Broadway credits include The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (Outer Critics Circle Award, Tony nomination); The Rose Tattoo; Shadowbox (Tony nomination); and I'm Not Rappaport. Off-Broadway includes Woman Before a Glass (Obie Award), Other People's Money (Clarence Derwent Award), The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Obie Award), Coming of Age in Soho, The Vagina Monologues and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Guthrie Theatre. She recently completed an acclaimed run of Viva La Vida! at the Bay Street Theatre. Among her television credits are the Emmy Award-winning "Indictment: The McMartin Trial," HBO's "Gia," Hallmark's "The Lost Child," Court TV's "Guilt by Association" and Showtime's "North Shore Fish." Television guest appearances include "Entourage," "Frasier," "Law & Order" and "The Cosby Show." For Lifetime TV she starred in last year's "Mom at Sixteen" and this year's "A Girl Like Me."

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