Olympia Dukakis
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
Rose Castorini
Moonstruck
Principal Jacobs
Mr. Holland's Opus
Marian
Away from Her
Personnel Director
Working Girl
Clairee Belcher
Steel Magnolias
Jeannie
I Love Trouble
Bette Tremont
Dad
Jocasta
Mighty Aphrodite
Patient (uncredited)
Lilith
Sophia Vitello
Jesus, Mary and Joey
Muriel Kleinman
The Thing About My Folks
Judy Hillerman
The Great New Wonderful
Rosie
Look Who's Talking Now!
Rita
Picture Perfect
Rosie
Look Who's Talking
Phyllis
In the Land of Women
Ira
Montana Amazon
Lila Shapiro
The Event
Mrs. Vacarri
The Idolmaker
Madam Chairwoman
The Pentagon Wars
Margie Carsen
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear
Margie Carsen
The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines
Rosmarie Carver
The Last Keepers
John's Mother
John and Mary
Mrs. Marcangelo
Jeffrey
Hilde
3 Needles
Mrs. St Paul
The Neighborhood
Beneath the Olive Tree
Lawyer
Rich Kids
Doris Silverman
The Cemetery Club
Young Mother
Twice a Man
Ellen Haywood
Whiskey School
Dr. Mary Wade
Day On Fire
Stella
Cloudburst
Marguerite Capano
And Never Let Her Go
Sue
In the Spirit
Self
Joe Papp in Five Acts
Alma Harris
Over the Hill
Mother (Mrs. Gordon)
Jerusalem
Emily (Segment 6)
Emily & Tim
Gwen Hollander
The Christmas Spirit
Helen Rosner
A Match Made in Heaven
Sophia
Jane Austen's Mafia!
Mama Nicola
King of America
Joey's Mother (uncredited)
The Wanderers
Doreen
Big Driver
Bea
Digger
The Rehearsal
Rosie
Look Who's Talking Too
Helena Naxos ("Success Wanters")
National Lampoon's Movie Madness
Rose Dellarusso
Mafia Doctor
Dinah
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Yaya
A Little Game
Nora
Better Living
Emily Miller
Fire in the Dark
Grandma
7 Chinese Brothers
F.D.R.: The Last Year
Cop at the Precinct (uncredited)
Death Wish
Katherine Campbell
Lucky Day
Louise Wilanski
Sisters
Sara Stevens
Ladies and The Champ
Crimes of Honour
Narrator
Crimes of Honour
Charlotte Kiszko
A Life for a Life
Self
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Aunt Vicky
The Infiltrator
Erina
The Intended
Marie
Irene & Marie
Self
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
Charlie
Charlie's War
Margaret Lemke
Change in the Air
Helen Manners
Brooklyn Sonnet
Amanda Patterson
Guilty Hearts
Self
Starring Austin Pendleton
Mrs. Jay
Mother
Herself
Olympia
Olympia
Birds of a Feather
Mary
Flanagan
Rose Garaventi
Young at Heart
Rose
Never Too Late
Gig's Mother
Made For Each Other
Dr. Doris Rice
Dead Badge
Self
Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family
Narrator
The New Greek Americans
Goneril Plogg
Milk & Money
Esther Lipman
Strange Relations
Irene Kaminios
Nicky's World
Self
The New Abolitionists
Pauline
The Seagull
Mrs. Amato (uncredited)
Stiletto
Judge
Not to Forget
Olympia Dukakis (uncredited)
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
Dotty
Scattering Dad
Narrator
Signs Out of Time: The Life of Archaeologist Marija Gimbutas
Arlene
Her Secret Sessions
Self
Dream Journey
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
96
Gender
Female
Birthday
1931-06-20
Place of Birth
Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
Also Known As
المپیا دوکاکیس