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Mercedes Ruehl

Mercedes Ruehl

Highest Rated: 98% Big (1988)

Lowest Rated: 5% Another You (1991)

Birthday: Feb 28, 1948

Birthplace: Queens, New York, USA

Like many who achieve "overnight success," Mercedes Ruehl had spent many years honing her craft on stage and in small roles in film and TV before breaking through in 1988 with two high profile parts. The New York native spent a somewhat peripatetic childhood, moving frequently until her FBI agent father and teacher mother finally settled in Silver Spring, Maryland. After returning to New York to attend college, Ruehl settled in Manhattan and studied acting with Uta Hagen while supporting herself with the usual battery of odd jobs (e.g., waitressing). She landed her first film role (a bit part as a policewoman) in 1979's "The Warriors." Ruehl went on to spend the next two years as a company member of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, acting in such works as "Medea" and "Much Ado About Nothing."

Highest rated movies

98% Big 88% Hustlers
88% Gia
88% Married to the Mob
86% 84 Charing Cross Road
85% The Fisher King
80% Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
71% Lost in Yonkers

Photos

Mercedes Ruehl LOST IN YONKERS, Mercedes Ruehl, 1993, (c) Columbia LOST IN YONKERS, Mercedes Ruehl, 1993, (c) Columbia ANOTHER YOU, from left: Richard Pryor, Mercedes Ruehl, 1991. ©TriStar Pictures FISHER KING, THE, Mercedes Ruehl, 1991 FISHER KING, Mercedes Ruehl, Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams, Amanda Plummer, 1991 FISHER KING, THE, Mercedes Ruehl, 1991 MARRIED TO THE MOB, Mercedes Ruehl, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ellen Foley, Joan Cusack, O-Lan Jones, 1988, (c) Orion LAST ACTION HERO, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mercedes Ruehl, 1993, (c)Columbia Pictures FISHER KING, THE, Mercedes Ruehl, Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, 1991 FISHER KING, Robin Williams, Mercedes Ruehl, Jeff Bridges, Amanda Plummer, 1991 ANOTHER YOU, Mercedes Ruehl, 1991, (c)TriStar Pictures BIG, Mercedes Ruehl, 1988, TM and Copyright (c)20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. ANOTHER YOU, Romy Rosemont, Mercedes Ruehl, Richard Pryor, Vincent Schiavelli, Gene Wilder, 1991, (c)TriStar Pictures LOST IN YONKERS, Mercedes Ruehl, 1993, (c)Columbia Pictures SLAVES OF NEW YORK, Adam Coleman Howard (second from left), Bernadette Peters, Mercedes Ruehl, 1989, (c)TriStar Pictures MARRIED TO THE MOB, Mercedes Ruehl (l.), Michelle Pfeiffer (second from left), 1988, (c)Orion Pictures ANOTHER YOU, Mercedes Ruehl, Gene Wilder, 1991, (c)TriStar Pictures LOST IN YONKERS, director Martha Coolidge, Neil Simon, Mercedes Ruehl on set, 1993, (c)Columbia Pictures LOST IN YONKERS, Mercedes Ruehl, Richard Dreyfuss, 1993, (c)Columbia Pictures
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
88% 65% Hustlers Mom (Character) $105.0M 2019
No Score Yet 56% Chu and Blossom Mrs. Fefterg (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Banner 4th of July Rosalind Banner (Character) - 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet Doctors of the Dark Side Narrator - 2011
No Score Yet 71% Loving Leah Janice Lever (Character) - 2009
No Score Yet 90% A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story Sylvia Guerrero (Character) - 2006
No Score Yet 79% Mom at Sixteen Terry Jeffries (Character) - 2005
No Score Yet 12% Bad Apple Lorraine Gibbons (Character) - 2004
No Score Yet 30% Zeyda and the Hitman Esther (Character) - 2004
No Score Yet 64% Guilt by Association Susan Walker (Character) - 2002
No Score Yet 20% Widows Unknown (Character) - 2002
46% 64% The Amati Girls Grace (Character) $47.8K 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Mary Kay Letourneau Story: All-American Girl Jane Newhall (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet 44% Spooky House Boss (Character) $64.5K 2000
No Score Yet 57% More Dogs Than Bones Victoria "Vic" Galletti (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet 58% The Lost Child Rebecca (Character) - 2000
52% 65% What's Cooking? Elizabeth Avila (Character) $1.0M 2000
59% 45% The Minus Man Jane (Character) $368.8K 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Out of the Cold Tina (Character) - 1999
88% 82% Gia Kathleen Carangi (Character) - 1998
38% 82% For Roseanna Roseanna 'Rosa' (Character) $120.4K 1997
No Score Yet 61% Subway Stories Leyla (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet North Shore Fish Florence (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet 77% Indictment: The McMartin Trial Lael Rubin (Character) - 1995
42% 48% Last Action Hero Irene Madigan (Character) - 1993
71% 77% Lost in Yonkers Bella Kurnitz (Character) $9.1M 1993
5% 34% Another You Elaine/Mimi Kravitz (Character) $2.5M 1991
85% 85% The Fisher King Anne Napolitano (Character) $39.4M 1991
35% 62% Crazy People Dr. Liz Baylor (Character) - 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Locos, Locos de Remate Unknown (Character) - 1990
30% 69% Slaves of New York Samantha (Character) $294.4K 1989
88% 49% Married to the Mob Connie Russo (Character) $19.7M 1988
98% 82% Big Mrs. Baskin (Character) $113.5M 1988
49% 58% The Secret of My Success Sheila (Character) $65.3M 1987
86% 81% 84 Charing Cross Road Kay (Character) $572.7K 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Leader of the Band Miss Cooper (Character) - 1987
45% 46% Heartburn Eve (Character) $24.3M 1986
80% 62% Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands American girl in casino (Character) - 1976

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 50% New Amsterdam Grace Ramirez (Guest Star) 2022
No Score Yet 61% Bull Judge Hudson (Guest Star) 2018-2020
No Score Yet 83% NCIS Marie Quinn (Guest Star) 2017
No Score Yet 63% 2 Broke Girls Olga (Guest Star) 2016
24% 78% The Mysteries of Laura Unknown (Guest Star) 2016
No Score Yet 84% Life in Pieces Mia (Guest Star) 2016
78% 82% Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Lucia Barba (Guest Star) 2015
52% No Score Yet Monday Mornings Unknown (Guest Star) 2013
No Score Yet 83% Law & Order Unknown (Guest Star) 2004 2009
65% 82% Entourage Rita Chase (Guest Star) 2006 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet 1-800-Missing Emanuelle Baker (Character) 2004
95% 94% Frasier Kate Costas (Guest Star) 1995-1996
No Score Yet 69% The Cosby Show Unknown (Guest Star) 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kate & Allie Unknown (Guest Star) 1986