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| Birth Name(s) : Mercedes Ruehl |
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Full Mercedes Ruehl Biography
Mercedes Ruehl (February 28, 1948) is a Golden Globe, Tony and Academy Award-winning American theater and film actress.
Ruehl was born in Queens, New York. Her father was an FBI agent and her mother, also named Mercedes, was a school teacher. She was raised Catholic, and has German, Irish, and Cuban 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 1997). She had another son, Christopher, whom she placed in adoption in 1976; Christopher later became Jake's godfather.
Her most acclaimed film role was in The Fisher King; her performance in the film earned her the 1991 Oscar 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. Earlier she had won the 1989 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Married to the Mob. She played KACL station manager Kate Costas in five episodes of Frasier, and had a major role in the made-for-TV film All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story.She is the first Cuban American female Academy Award winner.
Ruehl has been the subject of a heated Internet debate concerning her general demeanor and involvement in an international incident in which she reportedly acted dismissively to the country of Canada. Fans and detractors alike have chimed in with stories both personal and professional. |
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