Olympia Dukakis
Olympia Dukakis (June 20, 1931 – May 1, 2021) was an American actress. She performed in more than 130 stage productions, more than 60 films and in 50 television series. Best known as a screen actress, she started her career in theater. Not long after her arrival in New York City, she won an Obie Award for Best Actress in 1963 for her off-Broadway performance in Bertolt Brecht's Man Equals Man.
She later moved to film acting and won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe, among other accolades, for her performance in Moonstruck (1987). She received another Golden Globe nomination for Sinatra (1992) and Emmy Award nominations for Lucky Day (1991), More Tales of the City (1998) and Joan of Arc (1999). Dukakis's autobiography, Ask Me Again Tomorrow: A Life in Progress, was published in 2003. In 2018, a feature-length documentary about her life, titled Olympia, was released theatrically in the United States.
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Birthday: 20 June 1931
Birth place: Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
Known for: Acting
Movies known for
Moonstruck
Mr. Holland's Opus
Away from Her
Working Girl
Steel Magnolias
I Love Trouble
Dad
Mighty Aphrodite
Lilith
Jesus, Mary and Joey
The Thing About My Folks
The Great New Wonderful
Look Who's Talking Now!
Picture Perfect
Look Who's Talking
In the Land of Women
Montana Amazon
The Event
The Idolmaker
The Pentagon Wars
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear
The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines
The Last Keepers
John and Mary
Jeffrey
3 Needles
The Neighborhood
Beneath the Olive Tree
Rich Kids
The Cemetery Club
Twice a Man
Whiskey School
Day On Fire
Cloudburst
And Never Let Her Go
In the Spirit
Joe Papp in Five Acts
Over the Hill
Jerusalem
Emily & Tim
The Christmas Spirit
Related TV Shows
The Simpsons
Numb3rs
Touched by an Angel
The View
The Equalizer
Center of the Universe
So Graham Norton
Tales of the City
Dr. Kildare
The Andros Targets
More Tales of the City
Search for Tomorrow
Sinatra
Intimate Portrait
Further Tales of the City
Frasier
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Joan of Arc
Tales of the City
And Never Let Her Go
Sex & Violence
Inside the Actors Studio
Great Performances
Bored to Death