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Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis

AKA: المپیا دوکاکیس

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Born: 1931 Lowell, Massachusetts, USA 13 Global Credits 🔥 1 Popularity
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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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Show / Title Year Credit / Role
Tales of the City 2019 Anna Madrigal
Sex & Violence 2013 Alex Mandalakis
Sex & Violence 2013 Executive Producer
Bored to Death 2009 Belinda
Numb3rs 2005 Charlotte Yates
Center of the Universe 2004 Marge Barnett
Further Tales of the City 2001 Anna Madrigal
The View 1997 Self
Touched by an Angel 1994 Clara
The Simpsons 1989 Zelda (voice)
The Equalizer 1985 Judge Paula G. Walsh
American Playhouse 1982 Mama Nicola
Dr. Kildare 1961 Anna Nieves