Olympia Dukakis
Acting
- Born:
- 1931-06-20
- Died:
- 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
Filmography
The New Abolitionists
Not to Forget
The New Greek Americans
Tales of the City
Olympia
Change in the Air
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
The Infiltrator
Starring Austin Pendleton
Her Secret Sessions
Emily & Tim
7 Chinese Brothers
Irene & Marie
Beneath the Olive Tree
Big Driver
A Little Game
The Christmas Spirit
Sex & Violence
Montana Amazon
The Last Keepers
Joe Papp in Five Acts
Cloudburst
Birds of a Feather
Bored to Death
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Away from Her
In the Land of Women
The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines
Day On Fire
Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family
Jesus, Mary and Joey
Whiskey School
3 Needles
The Thing About My Folks
The Great New Wonderful
Numb3rs
Signs Out of Time: The Life of Archaeologist Marija Gimbutas
Center of the Universe
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear
Charlie's War
Mafia Doctor
The Event
The Intended
Guilty Hearts
Strange Relations
Further Tales of the City
Ladies and The Champ
And Never Let Her Go
And Never Let Her Go
Borough of Kings
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Crimes of Honour
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Joan of Arc
Better Living
Jane Austen's Mafia!
So Graham Norton
More Tales of the City
The Pentagon Wars
Scattering Dad