Mercedes Ruehl
Acting
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.
The Nana Project
Nana
Disclosure
Self (archive footage)
Hustlers
Mother
Robin Williams: Behind Closed Doors
Self
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
Self
Chu and Blossom
Mrs. Fefterg
Star Spangled Banners
Rosalind Banner
Doubt
Mrs. Syd Newman
Doctors of the Dark Side
Narrator
Goldstar, Ohio
Adriana Rock
Loving Leah
Janice
A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story
Sylvia Guerrero
Mom at Sixteen
Terry Jeffries
Zeyda and the Hitman
Esther
Bad Apple
Lorraine Gibbons
Spooky House
Boss
Guilt by Association
Susan Walker
The Amati Girls
Grace
The Lost Child
Rebecca
More Dogs Than Bones
Victoria 'Vic' Galletti
What's Cooking?
Elizabeth Avila
All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story
Jane Newhall
The Minus Man
Jane
Out of the Cold
Tina
Gia
Kathleen Carangi
Subway Stories
Leyla (segment "Underground")
Roseanna's Grave
Roseanna
North Shore Fish
Florence
Indictment: The McMartin Trial
Lael Rubin
On Hope
Last Action Hero
Irene Madigan
Lost in Yonkers
Bella Kurnitz
The Fisher King
Anne
Another You
Elaine
Crazy People
Dr. Liz Baylor
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Party Guest (uncredited)
Slaves of New York
Samantha
Married to the Mob
Connie Russo
Big
Mrs. Baskin
Leader of the Band
Miss Cooper
The Secret of My Success
Sheila
84 Charing Cross Road
Kay
Radio Days
Ad Man
Heartburn
Eve
Twisted
Cybelle
Mom's On Strike
Sandy
Four Friends
Woman in Taxi
The Warriors
Policewoman
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
American girl in casino