Mercedes Ruehl

Known for ActingBorn 1948-02-28 (age 78)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.Read more

Movies & web series

North Shore Fish

Widows

New Amsterdam

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Disclosure

Psych

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

NCIS

Frasier

The Warriors

Entourage

Life in Pieces

The Mysteries of Laura

2 Broke Girls

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Bull

The Fisher King

Law & Order

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Accused

The Lost Child

Gia

Big

84 Charing Cross Road

Monday Mornings

Loving Leah

Doctors of the Dark Side

Radio Days

Indictment: The McMartin Trial

The Cosby Show

Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict

Hustlers

The Oscars

Four Friends

Roseanna's Grave

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

Mom at Sixteen

Out of the Cold

On Hope

Last Action Hero

The Secret of My Success

Lost in Yonkers

ABC Afterschool Special

Kate & Allie

Spooky House

Married to the Mob

Heartburn