Acting credits
68
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Mercedes Ruehl
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
1.8
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Movies: 47Series: 21
TMDB ID: 2167
IMDb ID: nm0001689
Known for: Acting
Born: February 28, 1948
Age: 77
Place of birth: Queens, New York, USA
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1951 - 2023
Years active: 73
Average TMDB rating: 6.84
Wikidata: Q232933
Biography
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Mercedes Ruehl.
4.5
The Nana Project
as Nana
2023 Movie
7.8
Disclosure
as Self (archive footage)
2020 Movie
6.5
Hustlers
as Mother
2019 Movie
6.5
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
as Self
2015 Movie
4.0
Chu and Blossom
as Mrs. Fefterg
2014 Movie
5.2
Star Spangled Banners
as Rosalind Banner
2013 Movie
6.8
Doctors of the Dark Side
as Narrator
2011 Movie
Goldstar, Ohio
as Adriana Rock
2010 Movie
6.9
Loving Leah
as Janice
2009 Movie
5.1
A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story
as Sylvia Guerrero
2006 Movie
6.4
Mom at Sixteen
as Terry Jeffries
2005 Movie
3.0
Zeyda and the Hitman
as Esther
2004 Movie
3.5
Bad Apple
as Lorraine Gibbons
2004 Movie
5.9
Spooky House
as Boss
2002 Movie
4.8
Guilt by Association
as Susan Walker
2002 Movie
2.5
The Amati Girls
as Grace
2001 Movie
6.0
The Lost Child
as Rebecca
2000 Movie
4.6
More Dogs Than Bones
as Victoria 'Vic' Galletti
2000 Movie
5.5
What's Cooking?
as Elizabeth Avila
2000 Movie
4.4
All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story
as Jane Newhall
2000 Movie
5.4
The Minus Man
as Jane
1999 Movie
5.0
Out of the Cold
as Tina
1999 Movie
7.1
Gia
as Kathleen Carangi
1998 Movie
5.5
Subway Stories
as Leyla (segment "Underground")
1997 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Mercedes Ruehl.
6.9
Accused
as Connie • 1 eps
2023 Series
8.3
New Amsterdam
as Grace • 1 eps
2018 Series
7.1
Bull
as Judge Tessa Hudson • 1 eps
2016 Series
7.1
Life in Pieces
as Mia • 1 eps
2015 Series
7.2
The Mysteries of Laura
as Val Santiani • 1 eps
2014 Series
7.1
Monday Mornings
as Judge Beverly Natheson • 1 eps
2013 Series
7.2
2 Broke Girls
as Olga • 1 eps
2011 Series
7.9
Psych
as Detective Goochberg • 1 eps
2006 Series
7.4
Entourage
as Rita Chase • 2 eps
2004 Series
7.6
NCIS
as Marie Quinn • 1 eps
2003 Series
10.0
Widows
as Dolly Rawlins • 4 eps
2002 Series
7.9
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Lucia Barba • 1 eps
1999 Series
7.7
Frasier
as Kate Costas • 5 eps
1993 Series
7.2
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
1993 Series
7.3
Law & Order
as Zina Rybakov • 1 eps
1990 Series
7.0
The Cosby Show
as Bernadette Foley • 1 eps
1984 Series
5.9
Kate & Allie
1 eps
1984 Series
6.4
ABC Afterschool Special
as Sandy • 1 eps
1972 Series
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self • 1 eps
1962 Series
7.1
The Oscars
as Self • 1 eps
1953 Series
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Rebecca • 1 eps
1951 Series