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Mercedes Ruehl
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Mercedes Ruehl (born February 28, 1948) is an Academy Award-winning United States theater and film actress.
Contents
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 Personal life
- 1.2 Career
- 2 Filmography
- 3 Footnotes
- 4 External links
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Biography
Personal life
Ruehl was born in Queens, New York. Her father was an FBI agent and her mother was a teacher. She was raised in the Catholic religion[1] and has German, Irish, and Cuban ancestry.[2] Ruehl attended College of New Rochelle[3] and graduated in 1969. She is married to painter David Geiser,[4] with whom she has a son, Jake. She had another son, Christopher, who she gave up for adoption in the 1970s; Christopher later became Jake's godfather.[5]. Naturally she drives a Mercedes-Benz.
Career
Ruehl began her career in regional theatre, taking odd jobs between engagements. In the late 1970s, Ruehl began chalking up New York stage successes, notably in
I'm Not Rappaport (1985). On the stage, she won the 1985
Obie Award for her performance in
The Marriage of Bette and Boo and twenty years later, an Obie for
Woman Before a Glass. She also received a 1991
Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for
Lost in Yonkers. Her performances in two other plays earned her two other Tony nominations:
Her most acclaimed film role was in The Fisher King; her performance in the film earned her the 1992 Oscar 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. Earlier she had won the 1989 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Married to the Mob. She played KACL station manager Kate Costas in five episodes of Frasier, and had a major role in the made-for-TV film All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story.
She has also played the mother of Vincent Chase in
HBO's
Entourage.
Filmography
Footnotes
