
Olympia Dukakis
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1931-06-20 – 2021-05-01
Place of birth: Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Olympia Dukakis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for

Moonstruck
1987Rose Castorini
Mr. Holland's Opus
1995Principal Jacobs
Away from Her
2007Marian
Working Girl
1988Personnel Director
Steel Magnolias
1989Clairee Belcher
I Love Trouble
1994Jeannie
Dad
1989Bette Tremont
Lilith
1964Patient (uncredited)
Mighty Aphrodite
1995Jocasta
Jesus, Mary and Joey
2006Sophia Vitello
The Thing About My Folks
2005Muriel Kleinman
The Great New Wonderful
2005Judy Hillerman
Look Who's Talking Now!
1993Rosie
Picture Perfect
1997Rita
Look Who's Talking
1989Rosie
In the Land of Women
2007Phyllis
Montana Amazon
2013Ira
The Event
2003Lila Shapiro
The Idolmaker
1980Mrs. Vacarri