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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.
As actor
The Nana Project
Disclosure
Hustlers
Robin Williams: Behind Closed Doors
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
Chu and Blossom
Doubt
Star Spangled Banners
Doctors of the Dark Side
Goldstar, Ohio
Loving Leah
A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story
Mom at Sixteen
Bad Apple
Zeyda and the Hitman
Guilt by Association
Spooky House
The Amati Girls
More Dogs Than Bones
All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story
The Lost Child
What's Cooking?
The Minus Man
Out of the Cold
Gia
Roseanna's Grave
North Shore Fish
Subway Stories
Indictment: The McMartin Trial
On Hope