Mercedes Ruehl Biography
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Salary
Lost in Yonkers (1993): $1,500,000
Trivia

Of Irish and Cuban extraction.

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?"

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).

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.

Her husband, David Geiser, is an abstract expressionist painter.

She studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.
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