Place of Birth: Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
Olympia Dukakis
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.
Movie | Cast | Year |
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The Wanderers | Joey's Mom | 1979 |
Moonstruck | Rose Castorini | 1987 |
Mr. Holland's Opus | Principal Jacobs | 1995 |
Away from Her | Marian | 2007 |
Working Girl | Personnel Director | 1988 |
Steel Magnolias | Clairee Belcher | 1989 |
I Love Trouble | Jeannie | 1994 |
Dad | Bette Tremont | 1989 |
Mighty Aphrodite | Jocasta | 1995 |
Lilith | Patient (uncredited) | 1964 |
Jesus, Mary and Joey | Sophia Vitello | 2006 |
The Thing About My Folks | Muriel Kleinman | 2005 |
The Great New Wonderful | Judy Hillerman | 2005 |
Look Who's Talking Now! | Rosie | 1993 |
Picture Perfect | Rita | 1997 |
Look Who's Talking | Rosie | 1989 |
Cher: In Her Own Words | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2021 |
In the Land of Women | Phyllis | 2007 |
Montana Amazon | Ira | 2013 |
The Event | Lila Shapiro | 2003 |
The Idolmaker | Mrs. Vacarri | 1980 |
The Pentagon Wars | Madam Chairwoman | 1998 |
The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines | Margie Carsen | 2006 |
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear | Margie Carsen | 2004 |
The Last Keepers | Rosmarie Carver | 2013 |
John and Mary | John's Mother | 1969 |
Jeffrey | Mrs. Marcangelo | 1995 |
3 Needles | Hilde | 2005 |
The Neighborhood | Mrs. St Paul | 1982 |
Beneath the Olive Tree | 2015 | |
Rich Kids | Lawyer | 1979 |
The Cemetery Club | Doris Silverman | 1993 |
Twice a Man | Young Mother | 1963 |
Whiskey School | Ellen Haywood | 2005 |
Day On Fire | Dr. Mary Wade | 2006 |
Cloudburst | Stella | 2011 |
And Never Let Her Go | Marguerite Capano | 2001 |
In the Spirit | Sue | 1990 |
Joe Papp in Five Acts | Self | 2012 |
Over the Hill | Alma Harris | 1992 |
Jerusalem | Mother (Mrs. Gordon) | 1996 |
Emily & Tim | Emily (Segment 6) | 2015 |
The Christmas Spirit | Gwen Hollander | 2013 |
A Match Made in Heaven | Helen Rosner | 1997 |
Jane Austen's Mafia! | Sophia | 1998 |
King of America | Mama Nicola | 1982 |
The Wanderers | Joey's Mother (uncredited) | 1979 |
Big Driver | Doreen | 2014 |
Digger | Bea | 1993 |
The Rehearsal | 1974 | |
Look Who's Talking Too | Rosie | 1990 |
National Lampoon's Movie Madness | Helena Naxos ("Success Wanters") | 1982 |
Mafia Doctor | Rose Dellarusso | 2003 |
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | Dinah | 2000 |
A Little Game | Yaya | 2014 |
Better Living | Nora | 1998 |
Fire in the Dark | Emily Miller | 1991 |
7 Chinese Brothers | Grandma | 2015 |
F.D.R.: The Last Year | 1980 | |
Death Wish | Cop at the Precinct (uncredited) | 1974 |
Lucky Day | Katherine Campbell | 1991 |
Sisters | Louise Wilanski | 1973 |
Ladies and The Champ | Sara Stevens | 2001 |
Crimes of Honour | 1999 | |
Crimes of Honour | Narrator | 1999 |
A Life for a Life | Charlotte Kiszko | 1998 |
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale | Self | 2009 |
The Infiltrator | Aunt Vicky | 2016 |
The Intended | Erina | 2002 |
Irene & Marie | Marie | 2015 |
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin | Self | 2017 |
Charlie's War | Charlie | 2003 |
Change in the Air | Margaret Lemke | 2018 |
Borough of Kings | Helen Manners | 2000 |
Guilty Hearts | Amanda Patterson | 2002 |
Starring Austin Pendleton | Self | 2016 |
Mother | Mrs. Jay | 1995 |
Olympia | Herself | 2018 |
Birds of a Feather | Olympia | 2011 |
Flanagan | Mary | 1985 |
Young at Heart | Rose Garaventi | 1995 |
Never Too Late | Rose | 1996 |
Made For Each Other | Gig's Mother | 1971 |
Dead Badge | Dr. Doris Rice | 1995 |
Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family | Self | 2006 |
The New Greek Americans | Narrator | 2020 |
Milk & Money | Goneril Plogg | 1996 |
My Beautiful Son | Esther Lipman | 2001 |
Nicky's World | Irene Kaminios | 1974 |
The New Abolitionists | Self | 2020 |
The Seagull | Pauline | 1975 |
Stiletto | Mrs. Amato (uncredited) | 1969 |
Not to Forget | Judge | 2021 |
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult | Olympia Dukakis (uncredited) | 1994 |
Scattering Dad | Dotty | 1998 | Series | Cast | Year |
The Simpsons | Zelda (voice) | 1989 |
Numb3rs | 2005 | |
Touched by an Angel | Clara | 1994 |
The View | Self | 1997 |
The Equalizer | Judge Paula G. Walsh | 1985 |
Center of the Universe | Marge Barnett | 2004 |
So Graham Norton | Self - Guest | 1998 |
Tales of the City | Anna Madrigal | 1993 |
Dr. Kildare | Anna Nieves | 1961 |
The Andros Targets | Marina Angelis | 1977 |
More Tales of the City | Anna Madrigal | 1998 |
Search for Tomorrow | 1951 | |
Sinatra | Dolly Sinatra | 1992 |
Intimate Portrait | Self | 1993 |
Further Tales of the City | Anna Madrigal | 2001 |
Frasier | Caller #3 (voice) | 1993 |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Debby Marsh | 1999 |
Joan of Arc | Mother Babette | 1999 |
Tales of the City | Anna Madrigal | 2019 |
And Never Let Her Go | Marguerite Capano | 2001 |
Sex & Violence | Alex Mandalakis | 2013 |
Inside the Actors Studio | Self | 1994 |
Great Performances | Pauline | 1971 |
Bored to Death | Belinda | 2009 |