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The actress made famous by her hysterical performance of Rappers Delight in the 1998 movie 'The Wedding Singer,' Ellen Albertini Dow, has died. She was 101.
Dow was born in Pennsylvania in 1913. She moved to New York to become an actress, and performed with the famous mime Marcel Marceau in Paris.
After moving to California, where she taught drama, Dow landed her big break in the 1980s, and went on to appear in movies and television, including Patch Adams, Sister Act, Wedding Crashers, Golden Girls, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Seinfeld.
But it was her deadpan and endearing performance in the Adam Sandler movie 'The Wedding Singer' that catapulted her to fame in front of a new audience.
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