Olympia Dukakis
Birthday: 1931-06-20
Place of Birth: Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
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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Jerusalem
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Emily & Tim
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The Christmas Spirit
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The Wanderers
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Big Driver
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The Rehearsal
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National Lampoon's Movie Madness
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Mafia Doctor
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The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
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A Little Game
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Better Living
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Fire in the Dark
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Death Wish
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Lucky Day
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Sisters
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Ladies and The Champ
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Crimes of Honour
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Crimes of Honour
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A Life for a Life
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The Infiltrator
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The Intended
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Irene & Marie
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The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
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Charlie's War
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Borough of Kings
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Guilty Hearts
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Starring Austin Pendleton
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Mother
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Olympia
Follow Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis behind the scenes in this affectionate profile of a stal...
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Birds of a Feather
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Flanagan
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Young at Heart
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Made For Each Other
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Dead Badge
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Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family
Documentary highlighting the development of the screenplay into a film with the desired cast. It als...
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The New Greek Americans
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Milk & Money
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Strange Relations
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Nicky's World
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The New Abolitionists
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The Seagull
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Stiletto
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Not to Forget
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Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
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Scattering Dad
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Signs Out of Time: The Life of Archaeologist Marija Gimbutas
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Her Secret Sessions
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Dream Journey
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