Olympia Dukakis

Known for ActingBorn 1931-06-20Died 2021-05-01Lowell, 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Olympia Dukakis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Ladies and The Champ

Young at Heart

Flanagan

The Seagull

Scattering Dad

Fire in the Dark

King of America

Nicky's World

Olympia

Whiskey School

Borough of Kings

A Life for a Life

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

The Simpsons

Center of the Universe

Frasier

Sinatra

Lucky Day

Inside the Actors Studio

Charlie's War

Tales of the City

Bored to Death

So Graham Norton

More Tales of the City

Jerusalem

Touched by an Angel

Away from Her

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

Steel Magnolias

Numb3rs

Not to Forget

Search for Tomorrow

And Never Let Her Go

Tales of the City

The Equalizer

Montana Amazon

Mr. Holland's Opus

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

Starring Austin Pendleton

The Pentagon Wars

The Infiltrator

Crimes of Honour

The Neighborhood

The Andros Targets

Dead Badge

Moonstruck

The Wanderers

And Never Let Her Go