Personal Info
Birth date
1948-02-28 (77 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Queens, New York, USA
Also known as
-Mercedes Ruehl
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.
Filmography
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
7.465
Overview:
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.Law & Order
7.4
Overview:
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.NCIS
7.623
Overview:
From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has a shred of evidence connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
7.936
Overview:
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.Late Night with Conan O'Brien
7.178
Overview:
Stepping into the late-late slot vacated by David Letterman, Conan O'Brien stars in a show that far outdoes its competition in sheer strangeness. Along with the celebrity interviews and musical numbers typical of late-night talk shows, this program make frequent use of odd walk-on characters and frequent "visits" from celebrity guests.Psych
7.873
Overview:
Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a lasting dislike of his dad). Years later, Shawn's frequent tips to the police lead to him being falsely accused of a crime he solved. Now, Shawn has no choice but to use his abilities to perpetuate his cover story: psychic crime-solving powers, all the while dragging his best friend, his dad, and the police along for the ride.Frasier
7.674
Overview:
After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets shot in the hip on duty.ABC Afterschool Special
6.429
Overview:
Dramatically presented situations, often controversial, of interest to children and teenagers. Several episodes were either in animated form or presented as documentaries. Topics included illiteracy, substance abuse and teenage pregnancy.The Cosby Show
7.027
Overview:
The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984 until April 30, 1992. The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an upper middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York.2 Broke Girls
7.195
Overview:
Comedy about the unlikely friendship that develops between two very different young women who meet waitressing at a diner in trendy Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and form a bond over one day owning their own successful cupcake business. Only one thing stands in their way – they’re broke.Entourage
7.346
Overview:
Film star Vince Chase navigates the vapid terrain of Los Angeles with a close circle of friends and his trusty agent.New Amsterdam
8.355
Overview:
The new medical director breaks the rules to heal the system at America's oldest public hospital. Max Goodwin sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and provide exceptional care, but the doctors and staff are not so sure he can succeed. They've heard this before. Not taking "no" for an answer, Dr. Goodwin's instinctive response to problems large and small is four simple words: "How can I help?" He has to disrupt the status quo and prove he'll stop at nothing to breathe new life into this underfunded and underappreciated hospital, returning it to the glory that put it on the map.The Mysteries of Laura
7.1
Overview:
Laura Diamond, a brilliant NYPD homicide detective balances her “Columbo” day job with a crazy family life that includes two unruly twin boys and a soon-to-be ex-husband — also a cop — who just can't seem to sign the divorce papers. Between cleaning up after her boys and cleaning up the streets, she’d be the first to admit she has her “hot mess” moments in this hilariously authentic look at what it really means to be a “working mom” today. Somehow, she makes it all work with the help of her sexy and understanding partner, and things becomes even more complicated when her husband, ironically, becomes her boss at the precinct. For Laura, every day is a high-wire balancing act.Bull
7.044
Overview:
Dr. Jason Bull is the brilliant, brash, and charming founder of a hugely successful trial consulting firm.Kate & Allie
5.9
Overview:
Kate & Allie is an American television situation comedy which ran from March 19, 1984, to May 22, 1989. Kate & Allie first aired on CBS as a midseason replacement series and only six episodes were initially commissioned, but the favorable response from critics and viewers alike easily convinced CBS to commit to a full season in the fall of 1984. The series was created by Sherry Coben.The Oscars
7.056
Overview:
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.Life in Pieces
7.1
Overview:
Comedy about one big happy family and their sometimes awkward, often hilarious and ultimately beautiful milestone moments as told by its various members. Of the three siblings, middle child Matt may have just found his true love, his co-worker, Colleen; his coddled youngest brother, Greg, and his wife, Jen, are overwhelmed by the birth of their first child; and the eldest, Heather, and her husband, Tim, are dreading their impending empty nest so much, they're considering having another baby. Their parents are Joan the family's adoring matriarch who would do anything for her kids - as long as she agrees with it - and John, the gregarious patriarch who's searching for ways to soften the blow of turning 70. As the family's lives unfold in four short stories each week, they try to savor these little pieces of time that flash by but stay with you forever, because these moments add up to what life's all about.Accused
7.448
Overview:
In this crime anthology series, viewers discover how an ordinary person got caught up in an extraordinary situation, ultimately revealing how one wrong turn leads to another, until it’s too late to turn back. Told from the defendant’s point of view, each episode opens in a courtroom on the accused without knowing their crime or how they ended up on trial.Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
Overview:
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.Widows
NYR
Overview:
The widows of three men killed while trying to steal a famous painting, join forces to find their husband's killers and finish off the job of stealing the painting.Monday Mornings
7.1
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Set at the Chelsea General Hospital in Portland, Oregon, the show follows the lives of doctors as they push the limits of their abilities and confront their personal and professional failings. Based on a novel by Sanjay Gupta.Big
7.18
Overview:
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 grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman.The Warriors
7.666
Overview:
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 kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.Last Action Hero
6.475
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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 transported into the film and teams up with the cop to stop a villain who escapes into the real world.Disclosure
7.944
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An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.Hustlers
6.472
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A crew of savvy former strip club employees band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.Gia
7.1
Overview:
Gia Carangi meteorically rises to modeling fame in the late 1970s but becomes overconsumed by persistent loneliness and drug addiction.Crazy People
5.781
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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 help of the hospital's patients.The Secret of My Success
6.477
Overview:
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 girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the company's mail room.Acting
TBAPeople Not Places as Unknown
2023The Nana Project as Nana
2023Accused (1 Episode) as Connie
2020Disclosure as Self (archive footage)
2019Hustlers as Mother
2018New Amsterdam (1 Episode) as Grace
2016Bull (1, 2 Episode) as Judge Tessa Hudson, Judge Hudson
2016Robin Williams: Behind Closed Doors as Self
2015Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict as Self
2015Life in Pieces (1 Episode) as Mia
2014The Mysteries of Laura (1 Episode) as Val Santiani
2014Chu and Blossom as Mrs. Fefterg
2013Star Spangled Banners as Rosalind Banner
2013Monday Mornings (1 Episode) as Judge Beverly Natheson
2013Doubt as Mrs. Syd Newman
20112 Broke Girls (1 Episode) as Olga
2011Doctors of the Dark Side as Narrator
2010Goldstar, Ohio as Adriana Rock
2009Loving Leah as Janice
2006Psych (1 Episode) as Detective Goochberg
2006A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story as Sylvia Guerrero
2005Mom at Sixteen as Terry Jeffries
2004Entourage (1 Episode) as Rita Chase
2004Zeyda and the Hitman as Esther
2004Bad Apple as Lorraine Gibbons
2003NCIS (1 Episode) as Marie Quinn
2002Widows (4 Episodes) as Dolly Rawlins
2002Spooky House as Boss
2002Guilt by Association as Susan Walker
2001The Amati Girls as Grace
2000The Lost Child as Rebecca
2000More Dogs Than Bones as Victoria 'Vic' Galletti
2000What's Cooking? as Elizabeth Avila
2000All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story as Jane Newhall
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1 Episode) as Lucia Barba
1999Out of the Cold as Tina
1999The Minus Man as Jane
1998Gia as Kathleen Carangi
1997Subway Stories as Leyla (segment "Underground")
1997Roseanna's Grave as Roseanna
1997North Shore Fish as Florence
1995Indictment: The McMartin Trial as Lael Rubin
1994On Hope as Unknown
1993Frasier (5 Episodes) as Kate Costas
1993Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1 Episode) as Self - Guest
1993Last Action Hero as Irene Madigan
1993Lost in Yonkers as Bella Kurnitz
1991The Fisher King as Anne
1991Another You as Elaine
1990Law & Order (1, 1 Episode) as Zina Rybakov, Clara Lloyd
1990Crazy People as Dr. Liz Baylor
1989Crimes and Misdemeanors as Party Guest (uncredited)
1989Slaves of New York as Samantha
1988Married to the Mob as Connie Russo
1988Big as Mrs. Baskin
1987Leader of the Band as Miss Cooper
1987The Secret of My Success as Sheila
198784 Charing Cross Road as Kay
1987Radio Days as Ad Man
1986Heartburn as Eve
1985Twisted as Cybelle
1984Mom's On Strike as Sandy
1984The Cosby Show (1 Episode) as Bernadette Foley
1984Kate & Allie (1 Episode) as Unknown
1981Four Friends as Woman in Taxi
1979The Warriors as Policewoman
1976Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands as American girl in casino
1972ABC Afterschool Special (1 Episode) as Sandy
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1 Episode) as Self
1953The Oscars (1 Episode) as Self
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (1 Episode) as Rebecca