Mercedes Ruehl
Biography
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.
Filmography
The Nana Project
2023
as Nana
Disclosure
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Hustlers
2019
as Mother
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Robin Williams: Behind Closed Doors
2016
as Self
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
2015
as Self
Chu and Blossom
2014
as Mrs. Fefterg
Star Spangled Banners
2013
as Rosalind Banner
- No poster
Doubt
2013
as Mrs. Syd Newman
Doctors of the Dark Side
2011
as Narrator
Goldstar, Ohio
2010
as Adriana Rock
Loving Leah
2009
as Janice
A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story
2006
as Sylvia Guerrero
Mom at Sixteen
2005
as Terry Jeffries
Zeyda and the Hitman
2004
as Esther
Bad Apple
2004
as Lorraine Gibbons
Spooky House
2002
as Boss
Guilt by Association
2002
as Susan Walker
The Amati Girls
2001
as Grace
The Lost Child
2000
as Rebecca
More Dogs Than Bones
2000
as Victoria 'Vic' Galletti
What's Cooking?
2000
as Elizabeth Avila
All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story
2000
as Jane Newhall
The Minus Man
1999
as Jane
Out of the Cold
1999
as Tina