Mercedes Ruehl
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2023 · The Nana Project as Nana
- 2023 · Accused as Connie
- 2020 · Disclosure as Self (archive footage)
- 2019 · Hustlers as Mother
- 2018 · New Amsterdam as Grace
- 2016 · Bull as Judge Tessa Hudson
- 2016 · Bull as Judge Hudson
- 2016 · Robin Williams: Behind Closed Doors as Self
- 2015 · Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict as Self
- 2015 · Life in Pieces as Mia
- 2014 · The Mysteries of Laura as Val Santiani
- 2014 · Chu and Blossom as Mrs. Fefterg
- 2013 · Star Spangled Banners as Rosalind Banner
- 2013 · Monday Mornings as Judge Beverly Natheson
- 2013 · Doubt as Mrs. Syd Newman
- 2011 · 2 Broke Girls as Olga
- 2011 · Doctors of the Dark Side as Narrator
- 2010 · Goldstar, Ohio as Adriana Rock
- 2009 · Loving Leah as Janice
- 2006 · Psych as Detective Goochberg
- 2006 · A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story as Sylvia Guerrero
- 2005 · Mom at Sixteen as Terry Jeffries
- 2004 · Entourage as Rita Chase
- 2004 · Zeyda and the Hitman as Esther
- 2004 · Bad Apple as Lorraine Gibbons
- 2003 · NCIS as Marie Quinn
- 2002 · Widows as Dolly Rawlins
- 2002 · Spooky House as Boss
- 2002 · Guilt by Association as Susan Walker
- 2001 · The Amati Girls as Grace
- 2000 · The Lost Child as Rebecca
- 2000 · More Dogs Than Bones as Victoria 'Vic' Galletti
- 2000 · What's Cooking? as Elizabeth Avila
- 2000 · All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story as Jane Newhall
- 1999 · Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Lucia Barba
- 1999 · Out of the Cold as Tina
- 1999 · The Minus Man as Jane
- 1998 · Gia as Kathleen Carangi
- 1997 · Subway Stories as Leyla (segment "Underground")
- 1997 · Roseanna's Grave as Roseanna
- 1997 · North Shore Fish as Florence
- 1995 · Indictment: The McMartin Trial as Lael Rubin
- 1994 · On Hope as
- 1993 · Frasier as Kate Costas
- 1993 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- 1993 · Last Action Hero as Irene Madigan
- 1993 · Lost in Yonkers as Bella Kurnitz
- 1991 · The Fisher King as Anne
- 1991 · Another You as Elaine
- 1990 · Law & Order as Zina Rybakov
- 1990 · Law & Order as Clara Lloyd
- 1990 · Crazy People as Dr. Liz Baylor
- 1989 · Crimes and Misdemeanors as Party Guest (uncredited)
- 1989 · Slaves of New York as Samantha
- 1988 · Married to the Mob as Connie Russo
- 1988 · Big as Mrs. Baskin
- 1987 · Leader of the Band as Miss Cooper
- 1987 · The Secret of My Success as Sheila
- 1987 · 84 Charing Cross Road as Kay
- 1987 · Radio Days as Ad Man
- 1986 · Heartburn as Eve
- 1985 · Twisted as Cybelle
- 1984 · Mom's On Strike as Sandy
- 1984 · The Cosby Show as Bernadette Foley
- 1984 · Kate & Allie as
- 1981 · Four Friends as Woman in Taxi
- 1979 · The Warriors as Policewoman
- 1976 · Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands as American girl in casino
- 1972 · ABC Afterschool Special as Sandy
- 1962 · The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Rebecca
- Future · People Not Places as