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.
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Movies (43)
Not to Forget
as Judge
2021
The New Abolitionists
as Self
2020
The New Greek Americans
as Narrator
2020
Olympia
as Herself
2018
Change in the Air
as Margaret Lemke
2018
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
as Self
2017
The Infiltrator
as Aunt Vicky
2016
Starring Austin Pendleton
as Self
2016
Her Secret Sessions
as Arlene
2016
Emily & Tim
as Emily (Segment 6)
2015
7 Chinese Brothers
as Grandma
2015
Irene & Marie
as Marie
2015
Beneath the Olive Tree
2015
Big Driver
as Doreen
2014
A Little Game
as Yaya
2014
The Christmas Spirit
as Gwen Hollander
2013
Montana Amazon
as Ira
2013
The Last Keepers
as Rosmarie Carver
2013
Joe Papp in Five Acts
as Self
2012
Cloudburst
as Stella
2011
Birds of a Feather
as Olympia
2011
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
as Self
2009
Away from Her
as Marian
2007
In the Land of Women
as Phyllis
2007
The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines
as Margie Carsen
2006
Day On Fire
as Dr. Mary Wade
2006
Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family
as Self
2006
Jesus, Mary and Joey
as Sophia Vitello
2006
Whiskey School
as Ellen Haywood
2005
3 Needles
as Hilde
2005
The Thing About My Folks
as Muriel Kleinman
2005
The Great New Wonderful
as Judy Hillerman
2005
Signs Out of Time: The Life of Archaeologist Marija Gimbutas
as Narrator
2004
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear
as Margie Carsen
2004
Charlie's War
as Charlie
2003
Mafia Doctor
as Rose Dellarusso
2003
The Event
as Lila Shapiro
2003
The Intended
as Erina
2002
Guilty Hearts
as Amanda Patterson
2002
Strange Relations
as Esther Lipman
2001
Ladies and The Champ
as Sara Stevens
2001
And Never Let Her Go
as Marguerite Capano
2001
Borough of Kings
as Helen Manners
2000
