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Mercedes J. Ruehl (born February 28, 1948) is an American theater, television, and film actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1992 for The Fisher King and a Tony Award for her performance in Lost in Yonkers in 1991.
Ruehl was born in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City, the daughter of Mercedes J. Ruehl, a school teacher, and Vincent Ruehl, an FBI agent. She was raised Catholic. Her father was of German and Irish descent and her mother was of Cuban and Irish ancestry. Ruehl attended College of New Rochelle and graduated in 1969. She is married to painter David Geiser, with whom she adopted a son, Jake (born 1995). She had another son, Christopher, whom she placed in adoption in 1976; he later became Jake's godfather.
Her brother, Peter Ruehl, moved to Australia in 1987 where he was a popular newspaper columnist until his death in 2011.
Ruehl began her career in regional theatre with the Denver Center Theatre Company, taking odd jobs between engagements. Her first starring role on Broadway came in 1984's I'm Not Rappaport. She then went on to win the 1984 Obie Award for her performance in The Marriage of Bette and Boo and twenty years later, an Obie for Woman Before a Glass. She also received a 1991 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers and continued her role in the show during its tour with co-star Mercedes McCambridge. Her performances in two other plays earned her two other Tony nominations: in 1995, as Best Actress (Featured Role – Play) for a revival of The Shadow Box; and in 2002, as Best Actress (Play) for Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?.
Joe Pesci presenting Mercedes Ruehl with the Oscar® for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "The Fisher King" at the 64th Academy Awards® in 1992.
A funny and beautiful cinematic moment from Amanda Plummer and Mercedes Ruehl(who won the Oscar for best supporting role) in Terry Gilliam's 'The Fisher King' (1991). We see good women conversation dialogue all the time but this chemistry is just priceless.
Mercedes Ruehl interviewed by Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee on The Today Show 2/25/2009
Friday April 12 at Midnight Theater Talk welcomes actresses Mercedes Ruehl and Marian Sledes. They discuss "Albee's Women," the female characters of playwright Edward Albee and share their experiences bringing them to the stage. Ruehl is now appearing on Broadway in Edward Albee's latest play "The Goat." She has also played Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Seldes appeared last season in Albee's "The Play About the Baby" and was one of the original "Three Tall Women." Tape Date: 4/12/2002 Theater Talk is a series devoted to the world of the stage. It began on New York television in 1993 and is co-hosted by Michael Riedel (Broadway columnist for the New York Post) and series producer Susan Haskins. The program is one of the few independent productions on PBS and now airs weekl...
Mercedes Ruehl wins the 1991 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance as Bella Kurnitz in Lost in Yonkers.
The Fisher King movie clips: http://j.mp/1DrntMy BUY THE MOVIE: http://j.mp/SEyqkj Don't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u2y6pr CLIP DESCRIPTION: Anne (Mercedes Ruehl) asks Jack (Jeff Bridges) if he loves her, and when he says he doesn't know, she questions his reasons for staying with her. FILM DESCRIPTION: Director Terry Gilliam returns to his favorite thematic territory: the thin boundary between reality and fantasy. New York shock DJ Jack Lucas (Jeff Bridges) has his success pulled out from under him when one of his snide remarks is taken too seriously and results in a killing spree. Jack is interrupted in an attempted suicide dive into the East River by a couple of street punks looking to burn bums and is rescued from the punks by Parry (Robin Williams). Once a college...
Mercedes Ruehl wins Best Supporting Actress. Gives thanks to Stephen Randall, Linda Oaks, Debra Hill, Richard LaGravenese, Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams, Amanda Plummer, and Terry Gilliam.
Coupable par amour (Guilt by Association) est un téléfilm américain avec Mercedes Ruehl, Alberta Watson, Alex Carter, Karen Glave, Elisa Moolecherry et Rachel McAdams (2002) Synopsis : Susan Walker est une femme heureuse. Mère célibataire de deux enfants, elle vient de rencontrer un nouveau compagnon, Rudy Russell, qui semble être l'homme idéal. Mais tout bascule lorsqu'elle découvre que Rudy est un dealer. Accusée de complicité, Suzan est condamnée à 20 ans de prison. Elle décide de se battre pour prouver son innocence…
Mercedes Ruehl, Chris Connelly, Mary Matalin
My Movie Review of "Big" (1988). Starring: Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia, John Heard, Davis Moscow, Jared Rushton, Jon Lovitz, Josh Clark, Mercedes Ruehl, Kimberlee M. Davis, Oliver Block, Debra Jo Rupp & Frances Fisher. Written By: Gary Ross & Anne Spielberg. Directed By: Penny Marshall.
I'm Not Rappaport is a play by Herb Gardner, originally staged by Seattle Repertory Theatre in 1984. Its Broadway debut production—directed by Daniel Sullivan, and starring Judd Hirsch, Cleavon Little, Jace Alexander, and Mercedes Ruehl—opened on November 19, 1985 at the Booth Theatre, where it ran for 891 performances. The production received Tony Awards for Best Play, Best Lighting Design, and Best Actor (for Hirsch's performance). In 2002, after 15 previews, a revival re-opened at the Booth on 25 July, where it ran for an additional 53 performances. Again directed by Sullivan, Hirsch reprised his role and was joined by Ben Vereen. Written by Herb Gardner Characters Nat Midge Gilley Danforth Laurie Clara The Cowboy Date premiered 1984 Place premiered Seattle Repertory Theatre Seattle, ...
The Fisher King is a 1991 American http://bit.ly/1UG7wJb fantasy comedy-drama film written by Richard LaGravenese and directed by Terry Gilliam. It stars Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges, with Mercedes Ruehl, Amanda Plummer, and Michael Jeter in supporting roles.
Título original Mom at Sixteen (TV) Año 2005 Duración 86 min. País Estados Unidos Estados Unidos Director Peter Werner Guión Nancey Silvers Música Richard Marvin Fotografía Neil Roach Reparto Mercedes Ruehl, Danielle Panabaker, Jane Krakowski, Colin Ferguson, Clare Stone, Tyler Hynes, Hollis McLaren, Megan Edwards Productora Lifetime Television Género Drama | Adolescencia. Telefilm Sinopsis Jacey (Panabaker), una brillante estudiante de secundaria queda embarazada a los 16 años. Su madre (Ruehl), sorprendida y agobiada por la situación, no sabe cómo reaccionar. Después de tantear varias posibilidades, JAcey decide tener el bebé, aunque su madre le impone como condición mantener el embarazo y el nacimiento en secreto a fin de preservar su futuro.
THE 22nd ANNUAL LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 2007 AT THE RAINBOW ROOM Honoring: John Chamberlain for Visual Arts,Mercedes Ruehl for Performing Arts ,Paul Goldberger for Literary Arts, Roy Furman - Special Lifetime Achievement Award for Leadership and Plilanthropic Endeavors,Marshall Brickman - Emcee Please visit the Guild Hall website: GUILDHALL.org for more info. Copyright WVVH-TV Hamptons Television® 2007 all rights reserved
Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Amanda Plummer and Mercedes Ruehl star in Terry Gilliam's must-see comic masterpiece. Williams is Parry, a homeless history professor who lives in a fantasy world full of castles, Red Knights and damsels in distress. Bridges co-stars as Jack, New York's #1 shock deejay, whose off-hand arrogance triggers a tragedy which ruins his career. Penniless and without prospects, Jack finds himself plucked from disaster by the most improbable of saviors... Parry. And so the amazing story of the Fisher King unfolds a modern quest for redemption and the Holy Grail, filled with humor, heartbreak and ravishing romance. (Original Title - The Fisher King) (c) 1991 TriStar Pictures , Inc. All Rights Reserved.
ANOTHER YOU is the uproarious slapstick comedy about a pathological liar who, upon his release from a mental clinic, becomes involved with a con man and ends up impersonating a billionaire. Scam follows double-scam in classic Pryor/Wilder style. Features Academy Award winner Mercedes Ruehl as a con who falls for Gene Wilder. © 1991 TriStar Pictures, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Mercedes Ruehl on VVH-TV "American Dreams Show" with Ingrid Lemme Mercedes Ruehl's bio: Won Broadway's 1991 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for "Lost in Yonkers." She was nominated on two other occasions: in 1995 as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for a revival of "The Shadow Box," and in 2002 as Best Actress (Play) for Edward Albee' s "The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?" Won a 2005 Obie Award for her performance in "Woman Before A Glass." She and Irene Worth both won Tony Awards for their roles in the Broadway production of Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers." She and Worth reprise their respective roles in Simon's film version, Lost in Yonkers (1993). She and her husband have adopted a son, Jake Xavier Ruehl Geiser, born in May 1997. Graduated from the College of New Rochelle. Her husb...
Beautiful interview with American actress Mercedes Ruehl. Enjoy!
The Fisher King movie clips: http://j.mp/1DrntMy BUY THE MOVIE: http://j.mp/SEyqkj Don't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u2y6pr CLIP DESCRIPTION: Jack (Jeff Bridges) asks Anne (Mercedes Ruehl) about her religious beliefs, and Anne presents her theory about men, women, God and the Devil. FILM DESCRIPTION: Director Terry Gilliam returns to his favorite thematic territory: the thin boundary between reality and fantasy. New York shock DJ Jack Lucas (Jeff Bridges) has his success pulled out from under him when one of his snide remarks is taken too seriously and results in a killing spree. Jack is interrupted in an attempted suicide dive into the East River by a couple of street punks looking to burn bums and is rescued from the punks by Parry (Robin Williams). Once a college pro...
Mercedes Ruehl and Kristine Huskey read "George Tenet on 60 Minutes: We Don't Torture," the transcript of former CIA Director George Tenet's interview with 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley, April 29, 2007. This reading is produced by Reckoning With Torture, a collaborative film project between Doug Liman, the ACLU and PEN American Center that examines the human cost of America's post-9/11 torture program. To submit your own reading or to learn more about the project, visit www.ReckoningWithTorture.org.
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Mercedes Ruehl was born February 28, 1948 in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City to Mercedes Ruehl, a school teacher, and Vincent Ruehl, an FBI agent. She made several film and television appearance before coming to her most successfully received role in Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King (1991). She played the part of Jeff Bridges's on-screen supportive yet neurotic girlfriend, Anne.
Mercedes J. Ruehl is an American theater, television, and film actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1992 for The Fisher King and a Tony Award for her performance in Lost in Yonkers in 1991. This video is targeted to blind users. Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA Creative Commons image source in video
VHS TRAILER for Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995) Stars: James Woods, Mercedes Ruehl, Lolita Davidovich
The Fisher King movie clips: http://j.mp/1DrntMy BUY THE MOVIE: http://j.mp/SEyqkj Don't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u2y6pr CLIP DESCRIPTION: Jack (Jeff Bridges) and Anne (Mercedes Ruehl) take Parry (Robin Williams) and Lydia (Amanda Plummer) out on a double date, and discover that they're perfect for each other. FILM DESCRIPTION: Director Terry Gilliam returns to his favorite thematic territory: the thin boundary between reality and fantasy. New York shock DJ Jack Lucas (Jeff Bridges) has his success pulled out from under him when one of his snide remarks is taken too seriously and results in a killing spree. Jack is interrupted in an attempted suicide dive into the East River by a couple of street punks looking to burn bums and is rescued from the punks by Parry (Robi...