Mercedes Ruehl
Acting
Born 1948-02-28
Queens, New York, USA
71 credits
Academy Awards 1
Golden Globe Awards 1
Tony Awards 1
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play 1
Awards
Won 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 won
- 1992 Best Supporting Actress Won The Fisher King
Golden Globe Awards 1 won
- 1992 Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Won The Fisher King
Tony Awards 1 won · 2 nominated
- 2002 Best Actress in a Play Nominated
- 1995 Best Featured Actress in a Play Nominated
- 1991 Best Actress in a Play Won Lost in Yonkers
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play 1 won
- 1991 Outstanding Actress in a Play Won Lost in Yonkers
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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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Acting
59 credits
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order
NCIS
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Frasier
Psych
Entourage
2 Broke Girls
New Amsterdam
The Cosby Show
Bull
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Life in Pieces
The Oscars
ABC Afterschool Special
The Mysteries of Laura
Accused
The Warriors
Last Action Hero
Big
Hustlers
Gia
The Fisher King
The Secret of My Success
Monday Mornings
Married to the Mob
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Radio Days
Heartburn
84 Charing Cross Road
Another You
Crazy People
Disclosure
Indictment: The McMartin Trial
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Widows
Loving Leah
Bad Apple
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
The Minus Man
Doubt
North Shore Fish
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story
Subway Stories
Mom at Sixteen
What's Cooking?
Roseanna's Grave
Four Friends
Lost in Yonkers
The Nana Project
More Dogs Than Bones
Doctors of the Dark Side
Chu and Blossom
All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story
The Lost Child
Spooky House
The Amati Girls
Robin Williams: Behind Closed Doors
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