Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1931-06-20 (90 years old)
Deathday
2021-05-01
Place of Birth
Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
Also known As
المپیا دوکاکیس
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)...
1987
as Rose Castorini
1995
as Principal Jacobs
2007
as Marian
1988
as Personnel Director
1989
as Clairee Belcher
1994
as Jeannie
1989
as Bette Tremont
1995
as Jocasta
1964
as Patient (uncredited)
2006
as Sophia Vitello
2005
as Muriel Kleinman
2005
as Judy Hillerman
1993
as Rosie
1997
as Rita
1989
as Rosie
2021
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2007
as Phyllis
2013
as Ira
2003
as Lila Shapiro
1980
as Mrs. Vacarri
1998
as Madam Chairwoman
2004
as Margie Carsen
2006
as Margie Carsen
2013
as Rosmarie Carver
1969
as John's Mother
1995
as Mrs. Marcangelo
2005
as Hilde
1982
as Mrs. St Paul
1979
as Lawyer
1993
as Doris Silverman
1963
as Young Mother
2005
as Ellen Haywood
2006
as Dr. Mary Wade
2011
as Stella
2001
as Marguerite Capano
1990
as Sue
2012
as Self
1992
as Alma Harris
1996
as Mother (Mrs. Gordon)
2015
as Emily (Segment 6)
2013
as Gwen Hollander
1997
as Helen Rosner
1998
as Sophia
1982
as Mama Nicola
1979
as Joey's Mother (uncredited)
2014
as Doreen
1993
as Bea
1974
1990
as Rosie
1982
as Helena Naxos ("Success Wanters")
2003
as Rose Dellarusso
2000
2014
as Yaya
1998
as Nora
1991
as Emily Miller
2015
as Grandma
1974
as Cop at the Precinct (uncredited)
1991
as Katherine Campbell
1973
as Louise Wilanski
2001
as Sara Stevens
1999
1999
as Narrator
1998
as Charlotte Kiszko
2009
2016
as Aunt Vicky
2002
as Erina
2015
as Marie
2017
2003
as Charlie
2018
as Margaret Lemke
2000
as Helen Manners
2002
as Amanda Patterson
2016
as Self
1995
as Mrs. Jay
2018
as Herself
2011
as Olympia
1985
as Mary
1995
as Rose Garaventi
1996
as Rose
1971
as Gig's Mother
1995
as Dr. Doris Rice
2020
as Narrator
1996
as Goneril Plogg
2001
as Esther Lipman
1974
as Irene Kaminios
2020
as Self
1975
as Pauline
1969
as Mrs. Amato (uncredited)
2021
as Judge
1994
as Olympia Dukakis (uncredited)
1998
as Dotty
2004
2016
as Arlene
1995
as Self
2020
as Producer
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