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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.206 |
| Birthday | 1948-02-28 |
| Place of Birth | Queens, New York, USA |
| Also Known As |
1991
The Fisher King
7.3/1359
Two troubled men face their terrible destinies and events of their past as they join together on a mission to find the Holy Grail and thus to save the...
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The Fisher King
2011
Doctors of the Dark Side
6.5/1
Doctors of the Dark Side is the first feature length documentary about the pivotal role of physicians and psychologists in detainee torture. The stori...
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Doctors of the Dark Side
1988
Big
7.178/3698
When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grow...
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Big
1988
Married to the Mob
5.9/288
Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime world. When her husband is killed for having an affa...
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Married to the Mob
2006
A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story
5.6/18
The story of Gwen Araujo, a transgender teen who was murdered in California in 2002.
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A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story
1999
The Minus Man
5.4/95
When the quiet and amiable Vann Siegert drifts into town, no one suspects the evil that lies beneath the surface. Despite his easy charm, Vann is mere...
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The Minus Man
1991
Another You
5.4/95
George has been in a mental hospital for 3 years and is finally ready to go out into the real world again. Eddie Dash, a dedicated con-man, is suppose...
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Another You
1993
Last Action Hero
6.5/2756
After his father's death, a young boy finds solace in action movies featuring an indestructible cop. Given a magic ticket by a theater manager, he is...
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Last Action Hero
1993
Lost in Yonkers
6.407/43
In the summer of 1942 two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their childlike aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York.
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Lost in Yonkers
2000
More Dogs Than Bones
4.5/6
A series of mishaps and misfortunes over $1 million in cash leads to murder, mayhem and greed.
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More Dogs Than Bones
1987
84 Charing Cross Road
7.1/210
When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order...
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84 Charing Cross Road
1990
Crazy People
5.8/88
A bitter ad executive, who has reached his breaking point, finds himself in a mental institution, where his career actually begins to thrive with the...
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Crazy People
1997
Roseanna's Grave
6.6/33
Roseanna is dying of a heart condition, and all she wants is to be buried next to her daughter, in a cemetery that is getting full fast. The cemetery...
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Roseanna's Grave
1989
Slaves of New York
5.7/12
Meet the denizens of New York City: artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers. All are aspiring toward either fame or oblivion, and hoping for love and...
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Slaves of New York
2004
Bad Apple
3.8/3
Black Comedy about a undercover FBI agent in New York who falls for his informant's sister resulting in a deadly game between the criminals and cops.
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Bad Apple
2004
Zeyda and the Hitman
3/1
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Zeyda and the Hitman
1999
Out of the Cold
0/0
An American entertainer and an Estonian woman are torn apart by hate and prejudice.
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Out of the Cold
2000
All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story
4.1/9
A teacher is arrested and jailed for raping her 13-year-old student, and twice gives birth to his child.
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All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story
2023
The Nana Project
4.5/2
Follows Helen "Nana" Lewis, a feisty chess master, and her grandsons, as they embark on a road trip to support her rise to state championships.
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The Nana Project
2001
The Amati Girls
2.5/2
Four sisters who disagree about everything... except what matters most. Family.
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The Amati Girls
2002
Guilt by Association
5.4/10
Life is good for Susan, her two children and new boyfriend Russell. But life abruptly changes when she discovers her perfect boyfriend is a drug deale...
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Guilt by Association
1994
On Hope
0/0
On Hope is a 1994 short film directed by JoBeth Williams, with Annette O'Toole, Mercedes Ruehl, Ray Baker, and Veronica Cartwright. The film was nomin...
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On Hope
2000
The Lost Child
6/5
Knowing the past changes the future. Seeking a connection to her heritage, Rebecca Hoffman sets out on a journey of discovery following the deaths of...
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The Lost Child
2020
Disclosure
7.922/134
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have...
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Disclosure
2014
Chu and Blossom
4/1
A militant performance-artist and a tall Korean foreign-exchange student become trapped in a small Southern town.
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Chu and Blossom
1987
The Secret of My Success
6.471/634
Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and gir...
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The Secret of My Success
1984
Mom's On Strike
0/0
An ABC (American Broadcasting Company) Afterschool Special, about an overworked housewife, who, as the title suggests, goes on strike, in order to per...
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Mom's On Strike
2009
Loving Leah
7/55
When Leah's husband Benjamin dies suddenly, Benjamin's brother Jake is stunned to learn he is expected to marry the childless Leah to carry on his bro...
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Loving Leah
2005
Mom at Sixteen
6.2/45
Pregnant sixteen year old Jacey's well-meaning mother forces her to keep the birth a secret and decides to raise the baby as her own.
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Mom at Sixteen
1985
Twisted
5.2/13
One evening the Collins find their maid Mrs. Murdock at the end of their steps: dead, neck broken. Obviously she had an accident. Consequently they ne...
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Twisted
2013
Doubt
0/0
Centers on Vincent, a former cop who's now a cunning but charming low-rent lawyer who uses his street smarts to work the system for his clients while...
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Doubt
1998
Gia
7.104/762
Gia Carangi meteorically rises to modeling fame in the late 1970s but becomes overconsumed by persistent loneliness and drug addiction.
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Gia
2000
What's Cooking?
5.8/24
Four families of different ethnicities prepare for a potentially explosive Thanksgiving dinner.
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What's Cooking?
1989
Crimes and Misdemeanors
7.4/884
A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an...
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Crimes and Misdemeanors
1995
Indictment: The McMartin Trial
7/58
The McMartin family's lives are turned upside down when they are accused of serious child molestation. The family run a school for infants. An unquali...
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Indictment: The McMartin Trial
1979
The Warriors
7.7/2184
Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader ki...
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The Warriors
People Not Places
0/0
An elderly widow living in Atlantic City meets an erratic homeless man who sleeps in cars. Their shared loneliness causes them to bond, as they find t...
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People Not Places
1987
Leader of the Band
3/2
Eddie is a down-on-his-luck bar pianist who has just been fired from another job. Desperate for work, he finds a school looking for a leader for its h...
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Leader of the Band
1997
North Shore Fish
0/0
Sal (Tony Danza) has been the foreman at North Shore Fish, a frozen fish factory, for years. He and Flo (Mercedes Ruehl), the "batter" person on the a...
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North Shore Fish
2002
Spooky House
6/21
A magician with a mysterious secret lives alone with his jaguar, Shadow, in the Spooky House, an old mansion rigged with magic tricks and hidden chamb...
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Spooky House
2015
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
6.6/27
Bouncing between Europe and the United States as often as she would between lovers, Peggy Guggenheim’s life was as swirling as the design of her uncle...
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Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
1986
Heartburn
6/197
Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reser...
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Heartburn
2010
Goldstar, Ohio
0/0
Four families and a chief of police recount the day marine casualty officers came to their respective small towns in Ohio.
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Goldstar, Ohio
2019
Hustlers
6.5/2958
A crew of savvy former strip club employees band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.
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Hustlers
2016
Robin Williams: Behind Closed Doors
0/0
A two-hour documentary special Robin Williams: Behind Closed Doors which gives viewers an intimate look at his life from his childhood in the suburbs...
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Robin Williams: Behind Closed Doors
1997
Subway Stories
6/13
An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City, which range from compassion and love to violence and loss.
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Subway Stories
1987
Radio Days
7/581
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944,...
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Radio Days
1976
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
6.8/133
After the death of her handsome but good-for-nothing husband Vadinho, Flor, a widow, marries Dr. Teodoro, a respectable gentleman. Hilarity ensues whe...
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Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
1981
Four Friends
6.882/34
A young immigrant comes to America in the 60s and is caught up in the counterculture movement which tests his bonds of friendship and love.
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Four Friends
2013
Star Spangled Banners
4.9/7
Ten years following the breakup of the family band, The Banner Project, siblings Desiree, Johnny, and Mitchel Banner, are faced with the decision to r...
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