Cast
Mercedes Ruehl
Acting
Cast
Mercedes Ruehl
Known for
Acting
Born
1948-02-28
From
Queens, New York, USA
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.
★7.2
MOVIE1988
Big
as Mrs. Baskin
★7.7
MOVIE1979
The Warriors
as Policewoman
★6.5
MOVIE1993
Last Action Hero
as Irene Madigan
★6.5
MOVIE2019
Hustlers
as Mother
★7.3
MOVIE1991
The Fisher King
as Anne
★7.1
MOVIE1998
Gia
as Kathleen Carangi
★6.5
MOVIE1987
The Secret of My Success
as Sheila
★7.4
MOVIE1989
Crimes and Misdemeanors
as Party Guest (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1988
Married to the Mob
as Connie Russo
★6.0
MOVIE1986
Heartburn
as Eve
★7.8
MOVIE2020
Disclosure
as Self (archive footage)
★7.0
MOVIE1987
Radio Days
as Ad Man
★7.2
MOVIE1987
84 Charing Cross Road
as Kay
★5.5
MOVIE1999
The Minus Man
as Jane
★5.5
MOVIE2000
What's Cooking?
as Elizabeth Avila
★5.4
MOVIE1991
Another You
as Elaine
★6.9
MOVIE2009
Loving Leah
as Janice
★4.9
MOVIE2000
More Dogs Than Bones
as Victoria 'Vic' Galletti
★5.4
MOVIE1989
Slaves of New York
as Samantha
★4.1
MOVIE2004
Bad Apple
as Lorraine Gibbons
★6.5
MOVIE1997
Roseanna's Grave
as Roseanna
★6.5
MOVIE1999
Out of the Cold
as Tina
★6.8
MOVIE1976
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
as American girl in casino
★6.0
MOVIE2002
Spooky House
as Boss
★7.0
MOVIE1995
Indictment: The McMartin Trial
as Lael Rubin
★6.5
MOVIE2005
Mom at Sixteen
as Terry Jeffries
★5.6
MOVIE1997
Subway Stories
as Leyla (segment "Underground")
★4.0
MOVIE2014
Chu and Blossom
as Mrs. Fefterg
★5.1
MOVIE2002
Guilt by Association
as Susan Walker
★5.5
MOVIE2004
Zeyda and the Hitman
as Esther
★9.0
MOVIE1997
North Shore Fish
as Florence
★5.1
MOVIE2006
A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story
as Sylvia Guerrero
★4.8
MOVIE2000
All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story
as Jane Newhall
★4.9
MOVIE1985
Twisted
as Cybelle
MOVIE2013
Doubt
as Mrs. Syd Newman
★7.1
MOVIE2000
The Lost Child
as Rebecca
★5.9
MOVIE1990
Crazy People
as Dr. Liz Baylor
★4.7
MOVIE2001
The Amati Girls
as Grace
★6.8
MOVIE1981
Four Friends
as Woman in Taxi
★6.3
MOVIE1993
Lost in Yonkers
as Bella Kurnitz
★4.5
MOVIE2023
The Nana Project
as Nana
MOVIETBA
People Not Places
★5.0
MOVIE1987
Leader of the Band
as Miss Cooper
MOVIE2010
Goldstar, Ohio
as Adriana Rock
★5.2
MOVIE2013
Star Spangled Banners
as Rosalind Banner
MOVIE1984
Mom's on Strike
as Sandy
MOVIE2016
Robin Williams: Behind Closed Doors
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE2015
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
as Self
★6.8
MOVIE2011
Doctors of the Dark Side
as Narrator
★6.5
MOVIE1994