Actors: Mercedes Ruehl

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Jméno:Mercedes Ruehl
Datum narození:1948-02-28
Místo narození:Queens, New York, USA
Výška:1.78 m
IMDb ID:nm0001689

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.

  • Her father was of German and Irish descent and her mother was of Cuban and Irish ancestry.
  • Gave birth to her first child at age 28, a son Christopher Robert Ruehl in April 1976. Child's father is unknown to the public and Ruehl subsequently gave her son up for adoption. Reunited in the late 90s when he was 21 and became godfather to his half-brother, Jake Xavier Ruehl Geiser, born May 1997, adopted at 11-years old by Ruehl and Geiser.
  • Her brother, American-Australian columnist and humorist Peter Ruehl, passed away suddenly on April 12, 2011. A respected journalist/columnist for the Australian Financial Review, the 64 year-old was survived by his Australian wife, and three children: Mercedes, John, and Tom.
  • Her husband, David Geiser, is an abstract expressionist painter.
  • Won an Obie Award for her performance in Promenade Theatre's one-woman play, 'Woman Before a Glass' (2005). Ruehl portrayed wealthy New Yorker and art dealer, Peggy Guggenheim.
  • Studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City. Ruehl is a member of the Studio's faculty and teaches a variety of advanced acting courses.
  • Ruehl and Geiser separated but remained close from 2017.
  • Is an Associate Artist at the Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor, NY.
  • In 1991, Mercedes won an Oscar for The Fisher King (1991) and a Tony for "Lost in Yonkers". Mercedes is one of five actresses to win the Tony and the Oscar in the same year. The others are Shirley Booth, Audrey Hepburn, Ellen Burstyn and Judi Dench.
  • Graduated in English from the College of New Rochelle, New York (1969). Recipient of the College's 2014 Women of Leadership Award (2014).
  • Lives with her husband in East Hampton, Long Island, NY.
  • Ruehl and Geiser sold their house in 2017.
  • Daughter of Vincent Edward (1920-2003) and Mercedes Ruehl (1914-2000). Paternal granddaughter of William Edward Ruehl (1889-1956) and Kathleen Viola Tobin (1894-1964). Paternal great granddaughter of William Ruehl (1859-1923) and Catherine Downing (1867-1932). Paternal great granddaughter of William Ruehl (1859-1923) and Catherine Downing (1867-1932).
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