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.
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Filmography
Not to Forget
2021
as Judge
The New Abolitionists
2020
as Self
The New Greek Americans
2020
as Narrator
Olympia
2018
as Self
Change in the Air
2018
as Margaret Lemke
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
2017
as Self
The Infiltrator
2016
as Aunt Vicky
Starring Austin Pendleton
2016
as Self
Her Secret Sessions
2016
as Arlene
Emily & Tim
2015
as Emily (Segment 6)
7 Chinese Brothers
2015
as Grandma
Irene & Marie
2015
as Marie
Beneath the Olive Tree
2015
Big Driver
2014
as Doreen
A Little Game
2014
as Yaya
The Christmas Spirit
2013
as Gwen Hollander
Montana Amazon
2013
as Ira
The Last Keepers
2013
as Rosmarie Carver
Joe Papp in Five Acts
2012
as Self
Cloudburst
2011
as Stella
Birds of a Feather
2011
as Olympia
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009
as Self
Away from Her
2007
as Marian
In the Land of Women
2007
as Phyllis