
Olympia Dukakis
Acting
Olympia Dukakis (June 20, 1931 โ 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.
Known For

The Simpsons

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Frasier

The View

Numb3rs

The Equalizer

Touched by an Angel

Tales of the City

Bored to Death

Joan of Arc

Steel Magnolias

Naked Gun 33โ : The Final Insult

Moonstruck

Working Girl

Death Wish

Picture Perfect

The Librarian: Quest for the Spear

Dad

Big Driver

Look Who's Talking

Look Who's Talking Now!

Look Who's Talking Too

The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines

Mighty Aphrodite

The Infiltrator

In the Land of Women

I Love Trouble

Away from Her

Jeffrey

The Wanderers
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