Olympia Dukakis
ActingAlso Known As
المپیا دوکاکیس
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.
Movies
(96 total)
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
as Olympia Dukakis (uncredited)
Look Who's Talking
as Rosie
The Infiltrator
as Aunt Vicky
Look Who's Talking Too
as Rosie
Look Who's Talking Now!
as Rosie
Moonstruck
as Rose Castorini
Working Girl
as Personnel Director
Death Wish
as Cop at the Precinct (uncredited)
Mighty Aphrodite
as Jocasta
Steel Magnolias
as Clairee Belcher
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear
as Margie Carsen
The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines
as Margie Carsen
In the Land of Women
as Phyllis
Picture Perfect
as Rita
Mr. Holland's Opus
as Principal Jacobs
Sisters
as Louise Wilanski
Away from Her
as Marian
I Love Trouble
as Jeannie
Big Driver
as Doreen
The Wanderers
as Joey's Mother (uncredited)
TV Shows
(24 total)
The Simpsons
as Zelda (voice)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Debby Marsh
Frasier
as Caller #3 (voice)
Numb3rs
as Charlotte Yates
Bored to Death
as Belinda
Touched by an Angel
as Clara
The View
as Self
Tales of the City
as Anna Madrigal
Joan of Arc
as Mother Babette
The Equalizer
as Judge Paula G. Walsh
Tales of the City
as Anna Madrigal
Great Performances
as Pauline
Dr. Kildare
as Anna Nieves
More Tales of the City
as Anna Madrigal
Further Tales of the City
as Anna Madrigal
Sinatra
as Dolly Sinatra
Sex & Violence
as Alex Mandalakis
So Graham Norton
as Self - Guest
Intimate Portrait
as Self