Olympia Dukakis
Actor
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
Look Who's Talking
as Rosie 1989
The Infiltrator
as Aunt Vicky 2016
Look Who's Talking Too
as Rosie 1990
Look Who's Talking Now!
as Rosie 1993
Moonstruck
as Rose Castorini 1987
Working Girl
as Personnel Director 1988
Death Wish
as Cop at the Precinct (uncredited) 1974
Mighty Aphrodite
as Jocasta 1995
Steel Magnolias
as Clairee Belcher 1989
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear
as Margie Carsen 2004
The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines
as Margie Carsen 2006
In the Land of Women
as Phyllis 2007
Picture Perfect
as Rita 1997
Mr. Holland's Opus
as Principal Jacobs 1995
Sisters
as Louise Wilanski 1973
Away from Her
as Marian 2007