Olympia Dukakis profile
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Olympia Dukakis

20th June 1931 Lowell, Massachusetts, USA Acting

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.

91 Movies 26 TV Shows 123 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Jerusalem poster
Jerusalem 6th September 1996 as Mother (Mrs. Gordon)
Jeffrey poster
Jeffrey 18th August 1995 as Mrs. Marcangelo
Mother poster
Mother 1st January 1995 as Mrs. Jay
Digger poster
Digger 29th September 1993 as Bea
Dad poster
Dad 27th October 1989 as Bette Tremont
Death Wish poster
Death Wish 24th July 1974 as Cop at the Precinct (uncredited)
Sisters poster
Sisters 26th March 1973 as Louise Wilanski
Stiletto poster
Stiletto 30th July 1969 as Mrs. Amato (uncredited)
Lilith poster
Lilith 1st October 1964 as Patient (uncredited)
Numb3rs poster
Numb3rs 23rd January 2005 as Charlotte Yates
Frasier poster
Frasier 16th September 1993 as Caller #3 (voice)
Sinatra poster
Sinatra 8th November 1992 as Dolly Sinatra