Mercedes Ruehl (February 28, 1948) is a Golden Globe, Tony and Academy Award-winning American theater and film actress.
Of Irish and Cuban extraction.
Graduated college in 1969.
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.
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.
Graduated from the College of New Rochelle.
Her husband, David Geiser, is an abstract expressionist painter.
She lives with her husband in Easthampton, Long Island, NY.
