Mercedes Ruehl
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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
Big (1988)
as Mrs. Baskin
Last Action Hero (1993)
as Irene Madigan
Hustlers (2019)
as Mother
The Warriors (1979)
as Policewoman
Gia (1998)
as Kathleen Carangi
The Secret of My Success (1987)
as Sheila
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
as Party Guest (uncredited)
The Fisher King (1991)
as Anne
Married to the Mob (1988)
as Connie Russo
84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
as Kay
Heartburn (1986)
as Eve
Another You (1991)
as Elaine
Radio Days (1987)
as Ad Man
The Minus Man (1999)
as Jane
Loving Leah (2009)
as Janice
Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995)
as Lael Rubin
Disclosure (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Crazy People (1990)
as Dr. Liz Baylor
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976)
as American girl in casino
All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story (2000)
as Jane Newhall
Four Friends (1981)
as Woman in Taxi
Roseanna's Grave (1997)
as Roseanna
Subway Stories (1997)
as Leyla (segment "Underground")
More Dogs Than Bones (2000)
as Victoria 'Vic' Galletti
Guilt by Association (2002)
as Susan Walker
Bad Apple (2004)
as Lorraine Gibbons
Doubt (2013)
as Mrs. Syd Newman
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
as Bella Kurnitz
Slaves of New York (1989)
as Samantha
The Nana Project (2023)
as Nana
Chu and Blossom (2014)
as Mrs. Fefterg
What's Cooking? (2000)
as Elizabeth Avila
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict (2015)
as Self
Mom at Sixteen (2005)
as Terry Jeffries
A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story (2006)
as Sylvia Guerrero
Spooky House (2002)
as Boss
The Amati Girls (2001)
as Grace
North Shore Fish (1997)
as Florence
Star Spangled Banners (2013)
as Rosalind Banner
The Lost Child (2000)
as Rebecca
Goldstar, Ohio (2010)
as Adriana Rock
On Hope (1994)
Actor
Zeyda and the Hitman (2004)
as Esther
Robin Williams: Behind Closed Doors (2016)
as Self
Out of the Cold (1999)
as Tina
Doctors of the Dark Side (2011)
as Narrator
People Not Places (—)
Actor
Leader of the Band (1987)
as Miss Cooper
Twisted (1985)
as Cybelle
Mom's on Strike (1984)
as Sandy