Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role 1992
Mercedes Ruehl The Fisher King 1992
SEX WORKER ROLE
Mom
Character Is A Strip Club Matron
Supervising The Work Of Strippers
Mercedes Ruehl in in Hustlers 2019
“Hustlers” is a film that was based on a 2015 sensational piece published in New York Magazine. The plot of the film revolves around a bunch of street smart female strip club employees who team up to take on their Wall Street male customers. Mercedes Ruehl is featured in the supporting role of “Mom,” the matron of a strip club. Among the group of women who work as strippers, she is responsible for supervising them, making sure they perform, and acting as a mother figure; hence, the reason she is called “Mom.”
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