Acting
Mercedes Ruehl
EN, PT cinema · 50 credits
Born
28 February 1948 (age 78)
Birthplace
Queens, New York, USA
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
Filmography
The Nana Project
as Nana
Disclosure
as Self (archive footage)
Hustlers
as Mother
Chu and Blossom
as Mrs. Fefterg
Doubt
2013
Doubt
as Mrs. Syd Newman
Star Spangled Banners
as Rosalind Banner
Doctors of the Dark Side
as Narrator
Goldstar, Ohio
as Adriana Rock
Loving Leah
as Janice
A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story
as Sylvia Guerrero
Mom at Sixteen
as Terry Jeffries
Bad Apple
as Lorraine Gibbons
Zeyda and the Hitman
as Esther
Guilt by Association
as Susan Walker
Spooky House
as Boss
The Amati Girls
as Grace
More Dogs Than Bones
as Victoria 'Vic' Galletti
All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story
as Jane Newhall
The Lost Child
as Rebecca
What's Cooking?
as Elizabeth Avila
The Minus Man
as Jane
Out of the Cold
as Tina
Gia
as Kathleen Carangi
Roseanna's Grave
as Roseanna
North Shore Fish
as Florence
Subway Stories
as Leyla (segment "Underground")
Indictment: The McMartin Trial
as Lael Rubin
On Hope
Actor
Last Action Hero
as Irene Madigan
Lost in Yonkers
as Bella Kurnitz
The Fisher King
as Anne
Another You
as Elaine
Crazy People
as Dr. Liz Baylor
Slaves of New York
as Samantha
Crimes and Misdemeanors
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Big
as Mrs. Baskin
Married to the Mob
as Connie Russo
The Secret of My Success
as Sheila
Leader of the Band
as Miss Cooper
Radio Days
as Ad Man
Heartburn
as Eve
Twisted
as Cybelle
Four Friends
as Woman in Taxi
The Warriors
as Policewoman
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
as American girl in casino