Mercedes Ruehl

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Mercedes Ruehl Biography

Mercedes J. Ruehl (born February 28, 1948) is an American theater, television and film actor. Ruehl was born in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City. 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.

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  • She lives with her husband in Easthampton, Long Island, NY.
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  • Her husband, David Geiser, is an abstract expressionist painter.
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  • Graduated from the College of New Rochelle.
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  • One son, Christopher, given up for adoption when she was 28. Reunited in the late 90s when he was 21 and godfather to his half-brother Jake.
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  • She and her husband have adopted a son, Jake Xavier Ruehl Geiser, born in May 1997.
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  • 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).
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  • Won a 2005 Obie Award for her performance in "Woman Before A Glass."
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  • 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?"
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  • Graduated college in 1969.
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  • Of Irish and Cuban extraction.
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