 Dow's other film roles include elderly lady Mary Cleary who "outs" her grandson in "Wedding Crashers", Disco Dottie in "54", the recipient of Christopher Lloyd's character's slapstick in "Radioland Murders" and a choir nun in "Sister Act".She was best known to small screen audiences for her guest appearances on sitcoms "The Golden Girls" (playing Lillian, a friend of Sophia's) and "Will & Grace" (as Karen Walker’s mother-in-law Sylvia).Albertini was born on November 15, 1913, in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, the seventh and youngest child of Italian immigrant parents, Ellen and Oliver, from South Tyrol.