Mercedes Ruehl
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Mercedes Ruehl

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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.

Films Featuring Mercedes Ruehl

The Fisher King

19917.3

Doctors of the Dark Side

20116.8

Big

19887.2

Married to the Mob

19886.0

A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story

20065.2

The Minus Man

19995.5

Another You

19915.4

Last Action Hero

19936.5

Lost in Yonkers

19936.3

More Dogs Than Bones

20004.9

84 Charing Cross Road

19877.2

Crazy People

19905.9

Roseanna's Grave

19976.5

Slaves of New York

19895.4

Bad Apple

20044.1

Zeyda and the Hitman

20045.5

Out of the Cold

19996.5

All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story

20004.8

The Nana Project

20234.5

The Amati Girls

20014.7

Guilt by Association

20025.1

On Hope

19946.5

The Lost Child

20007.1

Disclosure

20207.8

Chu and Blossom

20144.0

The Secret of My Success

19876.5

Mom's on Strike

1984

Loving Leah

20096.9

Mom at Sixteen

20056.5

Twisted

19854.9

Doubt

Doubt

2013

Gia

19987.1

What's Cooking?

20005.5

Crimes and Misdemeanors

19897.4

Indictment: The McMartin Trial

19956.9

The Warriors

19797.7

People Not Places

People Not Places

Leader of the Band

19875.0

North Shore Fish

19979.0

Spooky House

20025.9

Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict

20156.5

Heartburn

19866.0

Goldstar, Ohio

2010

Hustlers

20196.5

Robin Williams: Behind Closed Doors

Robin Williams: Behind Closed Doors

2016

Subway Stories

19975.6

Radio Days

19877.0

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

19766.8

Four Friends

19816.8

Star Spangled Banners

20135.2