Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis

1931-06-20 - 2021-05-01
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.

Acting

Steel Magnolias
7.2
The Christmas Spirit
5
The Infiltrator
6.686
Naked Gun 33⅓: The ...
6.483
The Event
5.625
Mighty Aphrodite
6.716
Montana Amazon
6.8
Not to Forget
6.7
Made For Each Other
4.25
Working Girl
6.593
I Knew It Was You: ...
6.938
The Untold Tales of ...
6.3
The Neighborhood
6
Death Wish
6.88
John and Mary
5.819
The Pentagon Wars
6.9
In the Land of Women
5.871
Moonstruck
6.838
Day On Fire
5
Mr. Holland's Opus
6.946
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