Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis

Birthday: 1931-06-20

Deathday: 2021-05-01

Place of birth: Lowell, Massachusetts, USA

Also known as: المپیا دوکاکیس

imdb_id: nm0001156

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.

Played in movies:

Scattering Dad

Score: 10.0

Olympia

Score: 8.0

Jerusalem

Score: 7.2

Steel Magnolias

Score: 7.2

Lucky Day

Score: 7.0

Away from Her

Score: 7.0

The Wanderers

Score: 7.0

Mr. Holland's Opus

Score: 7.0

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

Score: 6.9

Death Wish

Score: 6.9

Moonstruck

Score: 6.9

The Pentagon Wars

Score: 6.8

Montana Amazon

Score: 6.8

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

Score: 6.8

Dead Badge

Score: 6.8

Mighty Aphrodite

Score: 6.7

Not to Forget

Score: 6.7

Starring Austin Pendleton

Score: 6.7

Sisters

Score: 6.7

The Infiltrator

Score: 6.7

The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin

Score: 6.6

And Never Let Her Go

Score: 6.6

Working Girl

Score: 6.6

A Little Game

Score: 6.5

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

Score: 6.5

Lilith

Score: 6.5

Cloudburst

Score: 6.5

Digger

Score: 6.4

A Match Made in Heaven

Score: 6.4

Jeffrey

Score: 6.3

The Thing About My Folks

Score: 6.3

Dad

Score: 6.3

The Librarian: Quest for the Spear

Score: 6.3

Look Who's Talking

Score: 6.3

The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines

Score: 6.2

Emily & Tim

Score: 6.1

Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family

Score: 6.0

Charlie's War

Score: 6.0

Whiskey School

Score: 6.0

3 Needles

Score: 6.0

John and Mary

Score: 6.0

The Event

Score: 5.9

In the Land of Women

Score: 5.9

Picture Perfect

Score: 5.9

F.D.R.: The Last Year

Score: 5.8

Change in the Air

Score: 5.7

Big Driver

Score: 5.7

Twice a Man

Score: 5.6

The Idolmaker

Score: 5.5

I Love Trouble

Score: 5.5

Jane Austen's Mafia!

Score: 5.5

Look Who's Talking Too

Score: 5.5

Mother

Score: 5.4

7 Chinese Brothers

Score: 5.3

Look Who's Talking Now!

Score: 5.3

The Intended

Score: 5.3

The Cemetery Club

Score: 5.3

Crimes of Honour

Score: 5.2

Crimes of Honour

Score: 5.2

Stiletto

Score: 5.0

Made For Each Other

Score: 5.0

Day On Fire

Score: 5.0

Rich Kids

Score: 5.0

The Christmas Spirit

Score: 5.0

The Last Keepers

Score: 4.9

The Great New Wonderful

Score: 4.8

The Rehearsal

Score: 4.8

Mafia Doctor

Score: 4.5

Joe Papp in Five Acts

Score: 4.5

Guilty Hearts

Score: 4.3

Over the Hill

Score: 4.2

Milk & Money

Score: 4.0

Never Too Late

Score: 4.0

Jesus, Mary and Joey

Score: 4.0

In the Spirit

Score: 3.3

National Lampoon's Movie Madness

Score: 3.1

Birds of a Feather

Score: 2.0

Better Living

Score: 1.5

Dream Journey

Score: 0.0

Her Secret Sessions

Score: 0.0

Signs Out of Time: The Life of Archaeologist Marija Gimbutas

Score: 0.0

The Seagull

Score: 0.0

The New Abolitionists

Score: 0.0

Nicky's World

Score: 0.0

Strange Relations

Score: 0.0

The New Greek Americans

Score: 0.0

Young at Heart

Score: 0.0

Flanagan

Score: 0.0

Borough of Kings

Score: 0.0

Irene & Marie

Score: 0.0

A Life for a Life

Score: 0.0

Ladies and The Champ

Score: 0.0

Fire in the Dark

Score: 0.0

King of America

Score: 0.0

Beneath the Olive Tree

Score: 0.0

The Neighborhood

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Simpsons

Score: 8.0

Tales of the City

Score: 8.0

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Score: 7.9

Sinatra

Score: 7.9

Frasier

Score: 7.7

Inside the Actors Studio

Score: 7.5

More Tales of the City

Score: 7.5

Bored to Death

Score: 7.3

Touched by an Angel

Score: 7.2

The Equalizer

Score: 7.1

And Never Let Her Go

Score: 7.0

Search for Tomorrow

Score: 7.0

Center of the Universe

Score: 7.0

Numb3rs

Score: 7.0

Tales of the City

Score: 6.9

Sex & Violence

Score: 6.8

Further Tales of the City

Score: 6.8

Joan of Arc

Score: 6.6

So Graham Norton

Score: 6.3

Great Performances

Score: 5.5

Dr. Kildare

Score: 5.5

The Andros Targets

Score: 5.0

Intimate Portrait

Score: 4.5

The View

Score: 4.3