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: Acting

Born: Queens, New York, USA, 1948-02-28

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1976	Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands	American girl in casino	68
2	1979	The Warriors	Policewoman	77
3	1981	Four Friends	Woman in Taxi	69
4	1984	Mom's On Strike	Sandy	0
5	1985	Twisted	Cybelle	52
6	1986	Heartburn	Eve	60
7	1987	Radio Days	Ad Man	70
8	1987	84 Charing Cross Road	Kay	71
9	1987	The Secret of My Success	Sheila	65
10	1987	Leader of the Band	Miss Cooper	30
11	1988	Big	Mrs. Baskin	72
12	1988	Married to the Mob	Connie Russo	59
13	1989	Slaves of New York	Samantha	57
14	1989	Crimes and Misdemeanors	Party Guest (uncredited)	74
15	1990	Crazy People	Dr. Liz Baylor	58
16	1991	Another You	Elaine	54
17	1991	The Fisher King	Anne	73
18	1993	Lost in Yonkers	Bella Kurnitz	64
19	1993	Last Action Hero	Irene Madigan	65
20	1994	On Hope		0
21	1995	Indictment: The McMartin Trial	Lael Rubin	70
22	1997	North Shore Fish	Florence	0
23	1997	Roseanna's Grave	Roseanna	66
24	1997	Subway Stories	Leyla (segment "Underground")	60
25	1998	Gia	Kathleen Carangi	71
26	1999	The Minus Man	Jane	54
27	1999	Out of the Cold	Tina	0
28	2000	All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story	Jane Newhall	41
29	2000	What's Cooking?	Elizabeth Avila	58
30	2000	More Dogs Than Bones	Victoria 'Vic' Galletti	45
31	2000	The Lost Child	Rebecca	60
32	2001	The Amati Girls	Grace	25
33	2002	Guilt by Association	Susan Walker	54
34	2002	Spooky House	Boss	60
35	2004	Bad Apple	Lorraine Gibbons	38
36	2004	Zeyda and the Hitman	Esther	30
37	2005	Mom at Sixteen	Terry Jeffries	62
38	2006	A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story	Sylvia Guerrero	56
39	2009	Loving Leah	Janice	70
40	2010	Goldstar, Ohio	Adriana Rock	0
41	2011	Doctors of the Dark Side	Narrator	65
42	2013	Doubt	Mrs. Syd Newman	0
43	2013	Star Spangled Banners	Rosalind Banner	49
44	2014	Chu and Blossom	Mrs. Fefterg	40
45	2015	Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict	Self	66
46	2016	Robin Williams: Behind Closed Doors	Self	0
47	2019	Hustlers	Mother	65
48	2020	Disclosure	Self (archive footage)	79
49	2023	The Nana Project	Nana	45
50		People Not Places		0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Rebecca	87
2	1953	The Oscars	Self	69
3	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	74
4	1972	ABC Afterschool Special	Sandy	64
5	1984	Kate & Allie		59
6	1984	The Cosby Show	Bernadette Foley	70
7	1990	Law & Order	Zina Rybakov	74
8	1990	Law & Order	Clara Lloyd	74
9	1993	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Self - Guest	71
10	1993	Frasier	Kate Costas	77
11	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Lucia Barba	79
12	2002	Widows	Dolly Rawlins	0
13	2003	NCIS	Marie Quinn	76
14	2004	Entourage	Rita Chase	73
15	2006	Psych	Detective Goochberg	79
16	2011	2 Broke Girls	Olga	72
17	2013	Monday Mornings	Judge Beverly Natheson	71
18	2014	The Mysteries of Laura	Val Santiani	72
19	2015	Life in Pieces	Mia	71
20	2016	Bull	Judge Tessa Hudson	70
21	2016	Bull	Judge Hudson	70
22	2018	New Amsterdam	Grace	84
23	2023	Accused	Connie	75