Mercedes Ruehl

Actor

Born: February 28, 1948 (age 78)
From: Queens, New York, USA

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…

Filmography (50)

The Nana Project (2023)
Nana
Disclosure (2020)
Self (archive footage)
Hustlers (2019)
Mother
Robin Williams: Behind Closed Doors
Robin Williams: Behind Closed Doors (2016)
Self
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict (2015)
Self
Chu and Blossom (2014)
Mrs. Fefterg
Star Spangled Banners (2013)
Rosalind Banner
Doubt
Doubt (2013)
Mrs. Syd Newman
Doctors of the Dark Side (2011)
Narrator
Goldstar, Ohio (2010)
Adriana Rock
Loving Leah (2009)
Janice
A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story (2006)
Sylvia Guerrero
Mom at Sixteen (2005)
Terry Jeffries
Zeyda and the Hitman (2004)
Esther
Bad Apple (2004)
Lorraine Gibbons
Spooky House (2002)
Boss
Guilt by Association (2002)
Susan Walker
The Amati Girls (2001)
Grace
The Lost Child (2000)
Rebecca
More Dogs Than Bones (2000)
Victoria 'Vic' Galletti
What's Cooking? (2000)
Elizabeth Avila
All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story (2000)
Jane Newhall
The Minus Man (1999)
Jane
Out of the Cold (1999)
Tina
Gia (1998)
Kathleen Carangi
Subway Stories (1997)
Leyla (segment "Underground")
Roseanna's Grave (1997)
Roseanna
North Shore Fish (1997)
Florence
Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995)
Lael Rubin
On Hope (1994)