'Wedding Singer' rapping granny dies at 101

Ellen Albertini Dow, who rapped her way into our hearts in the 1998 movie The Wedding Singer, has died. She was 101.

Los Angeles' Pierce College Theater department announced the Monday death on Facebook. Eugene Dow, Ellen's husband, founded the theater department there. Dow's agent Juliet Green confirmed the death to Deadline.

Albertini graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. and M.A. in theater, according to IMDB.com. She moved to New York and studied and worked with legendary coaches including Martha Graham, Michael Shurtleff, Uta Hagen and Marcel Marceau.

She appeared in films including Sister Act and Patch Adams, and on many classic TV series including Murphy Brown, The Golden Girls, The Wonder Years, ER, Will & Grace and Seinfeld.

Dow was also a theater instructor, mostly devoted to children's and musical theater, at Pierce College for many years, says the school. She directed a production of The Fantasticks in the late '60s, and the school honored her with a remounting of the musical in the fall of 2014.

In The Wedding Singer, she was praised for her rendition of Rapper's Delight.