
Olympia Dukakis
Born: 1931-06-20
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

Big Driver

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

Working Girl

Steel Magnolias

Mighty Aphrodite

Lilith

Death Wish

Milk & Money

Look Who's Talking

The Librarian: Quest for the Spear

Moonstruck

Picture Perfect

Jeffrey

The Christmas Spirit

The Neighborhood

Emily & Tim

The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines

Olympia

The Seagull

Stiletto

Look Who's Talking Now!

The Rehearsal

Mr. Holland's Opus

Dad

The Intended

The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin

The Infiltrator

Cloudburst

Lucky Day

3 Needles

Digger

Look Who's Talking Too

Scattering Dad

Jerusalem

Young at Heart

Dead Badge

Mafia Doctor

Montana Amazon

Day On Fire

Change in the Air

The Wanderers

John and Mary

Jane Austen's Mafia!

I Love Trouble

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

Sisters

The Cemetery Club

Away from Her

In the Land of Women

7 Chinese Brothers

A Little Game

The Pentagon Wars

Twice a Man

Over the Hill

Starring Austin Pendleton

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

Never Too Late

National Lampoon's Movie Madness

Dream Journey

In the Spirit

The Idolmaker

Strange Relations

A Match Made in Heaven

Irene & Marie

Beneath the Olive Tree

Fire in the Dark

Rich Kids

The Event

Her Secret Sessions

The Great New Wonderful

The Thing About My Folks

And Never Let Her Go

Mother

The Last Keepers

Guilty Hearts

Not to Forget

Flanagan

The New Abolitionists

The New Greek Americans

Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family

F.D.R.: The Last Year

Jesus, Mary and Joey

Birds of a Feather

Better Living

Charlie's War

Joe Papp in Five Acts

Made For Each Other

Ladies and The Champ

King of America

Borough of Kings
