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Olympia Dukakis

Born 1931-06-20

Died 2021-05-01

📍 Lowell, Massachusetts, USA

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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Filmography 115

The New Abolitionists

The New Greek Americans

Tales of the City

as Anna Madrigal

Change in the Air

as Margaret Lemke

The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin

The Infiltrator

Starring Austin Pendleton

Her Secret Sessions

as Emily (Segment 6)

7 Chinese Brothers

Beneath the Olive Tree

The Christmas Spirit

as Gwen Hollander

as Alex Mandalakis

The Last Keepers

as Rosmarie Carver

Joe Papp in Five Acts

Birds of a Feather

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

In the Land of Women

The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines

as Margie Carsen

as Dr. Mary Wade

Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family

Jesus, Mary and Joey

as Sophia Vitello

The Thing About My Folks

as Muriel Kleinman

The Great New Wonderful

as Judy Hillerman

as Charlotte Yates

Signs Out of Time: The Life of Archaeologist Marija Gimbutas

Center of the Universe

as Marge Barnett

The Librarian: Quest for the Spear

as Margie Carsen

as Rose Dellarusso

as Lila Shapiro

as Amanda Patterson

Strange Relations

as Esther Lipman

Further Tales of the City

as Anna Madrigal

Ladies and The Champ

as Sara Stevens

And Never Let Her Go

as Marguerite Capano

And Never Let Her Go

as Marguerite Capano

Borough of Kings

as Helen Manners

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Mother Babette

Jane Austen's Mafia!

So Graham Norton

as Self - Guest

More Tales of the City

as Anna Madrigal

The Pentagon Wars

as Madam Chairwoman

Picture Perfect

A Match Made in Heaven

as Helen Rosner

as Goneril Plogg

as Mother (Mrs. Gordon)

Mr. Holland's Opus

as Principal Jacobs

Mighty Aphrodite

as Mrs. Marcangelo

as Dr. Doris Rice

as Rose Garaventi

Touched by an Angel

Inside the Actors Studio

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

as Olympia Dukakis (uncredited)

Intimate Portrait

Look Who's Talking Now!

Tales of the City

as Anna Madrigal

as Caller #3 (voice)

The Cemetery Club

as Doris Silverman

as Dolly Sinatra

Fire in the Dark

as Emily Miller

as Katherine Campbell

Look Who's Talking Too

as Zelda (voice)

Steel Magnolias

as Clairee Belcher

as Bette Tremont

Look Who's Talking

as Personnel Director

as Rose Castorini

as Judge Paula G. Walsh

The Neighborhood

as Mrs. St Paul

National Lampoon's Movie Madness

as Helena Naxos ("Success Wanters")

King of America

as Mrs. Vacarri

F.D.R.: The Last Year

as Joey's Mother (uncredited)

The Andros Targets

as Marina Angelis

as Cop at the Precinct (uncredited)

as Louise Wilanski

Made For Each Other

as Gig's Mother

Great Performances

as John's Mother

as Mrs. Amato (uncredited)

as Patient (uncredited)

as Young Mother

Search for Tomorrow