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Mercedes Ruehl
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,…
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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.
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2023
The Nana Project
Movie Nana
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2023
Accused
TV show Connie
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2020
Disclosure
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
Hustlers
Movie Mother
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2018
New Amsterdam
TV show Grace
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2016
Bull
TV show Judge Tessa Hudson
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2016
Robin Williams: Behind Closed Doors
Movie Self
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2015
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
Movie Self
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2015
Life in Pieces
TV show Mia
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2014
The Mysteries of Laura
TV show Val Santiani
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2014
Chu and Blossom
Movie Mrs. Fefterg
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2013
Star Spangled Banners
Movie Rosalind Banner
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2013
Monday Mornings
TV show Judge Beverly Natheson
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2013
Doubt
Movie Mrs. Syd Newman
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2011
2 Broke Girls
TV show Olga
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2011
Doctors of the Dark Side
Movie Narrator
More credits
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2010
Goldstar, Ohio
Movie Adriana Rock
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2009
Loving Leah
Movie Janice
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2006
Psych
TV show Detective Goochberg
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2006
A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story
Movie Sylvia Guerrero
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2005
Mom at Sixteen
Movie Terry Jeffries
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2004
Entourage
TV show Rita Chase
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2004
Zeyda and the Hitman
Movie Esther
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2004
Bad Apple
Movie Lorraine Gibbons
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2003
NCIS
TV show Marie Quinn
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2002
Widows
TV show Dolly Rawlins
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2002
Spooky House
Movie Boss
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2002
Guilt by Association
Movie Susan Walker
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2001
The Amati Girls
Movie Grace
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2000
The Lost Child
Movie Rebecca
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2000
More Dogs Than Bones
Movie Victoria 'Vic' Galletti
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2000
What's Cooking?
Movie Elizabeth Avila
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2000
All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story
Movie Jane Newhall
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1999
The Minus Man
Movie Jane
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1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV show Lucia Barba
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1999
Out of the Cold
Movie Tina
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1998
Gia
Movie Kathleen Carangi
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1997
Subway Stories
Movie Leyla (segment "Underground")
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1997
Roseanna's Grave
Movie Roseanna
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1997
North Shore Fish
Movie Florence
