Olympia Dukakis
Acting • Born 1931-06-20 – Died 2021-05-01
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.
Filmography
120 credits
Moonstruck
Movie • 1987
Rose Castorini
Mr. Holland's Opus
Movie • 1995
Principal Jacobs
Away from Her
Movie • 2007
Marian
Working Girl
Movie • 1988
Personnel Director
Steel Magnolias
Movie • 1989
Clairee Belcher
I Love Trouble
Movie • 1994
Jeannie
Dad
Movie • 1989
Bette Tremont
Lilith
Movie • 1964
Patient (uncredited)
Mighty Aphrodite
Movie • 1995
Jocasta
Jesus, Mary and Joey
Movie • 2006
Sophia Vitello
The Thing About My Folks
Movie • 2005
Muriel Kleinman
The Great New Wonderful
Movie • 2005
Judy Hillerman
Look Who's Talking Now!
Movie • 1993
Rosie
Picture Perfect
Movie • 1997
Rita
Look Who's Talking
Movie • 1989
Rosie
In the Land of Women
Movie • 2007
Phyllis
Montana Amazon
Movie • 2013
Ira
The Event
Movie • 2003
Lila Shapiro
The Idolmaker
Movie • 1980
Mrs. Vacarri
The Pentagon Wars
Movie • 1998
Madam Chairwoman
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear
Movie • 2004
Margie Carsen
The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines
Movie • 2006
Margie Carsen
The Last Keepers
Movie • 2013
Rosmarie Carver
John and Mary
Movie • 1969
John's Mother
Jeffrey
Movie • 1995
Mrs. Marcangelo
3 Needles
Movie • 2005
Hilde
The Neighborhood
Movie • 1982
Mrs. St Paul
Beneath the Olive Tree
Movie • 2015
Rich Kids
Movie • 1979
Lawyer
The Cemetery Club
Movie • 1993
Doris Silverman
Twice a Man
Movie • 1963
Young Mother
Whiskey School
Movie • 2005
Ellen Haywood
Day On Fire
Movie • 2006
Dr. Mary Wade
Cloudburst
Movie • 2011
Stella
And Never Let Her Go
Movie • 2001
Marguerite Capano
In the Spirit
Movie • 1990
Sue
Joe Papp in Five Acts
Movie • 2012
Self
Over the Hill
Movie • 1992
Alma Harris
Jerusalem
Movie • 1996
Mother (Mrs. Gordon)
Emily & Tim
Movie • 2015
Emily (Segment 6)
The Christmas Spirit
Movie • 2013
Gwen Hollander
A Match Made in Heaven
Movie • 1997
Helen Rosner
Jane Austen's Mafia!
Movie • 1998
Sophia
King of America
Movie • 1982
Mama Nicola
The Wanderers
Movie • 1979
Joey's Mother (uncredited)
Big Driver
Movie • 2014
Doreen
Digger
Movie • 1993
Bea
The Rehearsal
Movie • 1974
Look Who's Talking Too
Movie • 1990
Rosie
National Lampoon's Movie Madness
Movie • 1982
Helena Naxos ("Success Wanters")
Mafia Doctor
Movie • 2003
Rose Dellarusso
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Movie • 2000
Dinah
A Little Game
Movie • 2014
Yaya
Better Living
Movie • 1998
Nora
Fire in the Dark
Movie • 1991
Emily Miller
7 Chinese Brothers
Movie • 2015
Grandma
F.D.R.: The Last Year
Movie • 1980
Death Wish
Movie • 1974
Cop at the Precinct (uncredited)
Lucky Day
Movie • 1991
Katherine Campbell
Sisters
Movie • 1973
Louise Wilanski
Ladies and The Champ
Movie • 2001
Sara Stevens
Crimes of Honour
Movie • 1999
Narrator (voice)
A Life for a Life
Movie • 1998
Charlotte Kiszko
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Movie • 2009
Self
The Infiltrator
Movie • 2016
Aunt Vicky
The Intended
Movie • 2002
Erina
Irene & Marie
Movie • 2015
Marie
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
Movie • 2017
Self
Charlie's War
Movie • 2003
Charlie
Change in the Air
Movie • 2018
Margaret Lemke
Borough of Kings
Movie • 2000
Helen Manners
Guilty Hearts
Movie • 2002
Amanda Patterson
Starring Austin Pendleton
Movie • 2016
Self
Mother
Movie • 1995
Mrs. Jay
Olympia
Movie • 2018
Herself
Birds of a Feather
Movie • 2011
Olympia
Flanagan
Movie • 1985
Mary
Young at Heart
Movie • 1995
Rose Garaventi
Never Too Late
Movie • 1996
Rose
Made For Each Other
Movie • 1971
Gig's Mother
Dead Badge
Movie • 1995
Dr. Doris Rice
Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family
Movie • 2006
Self
The New Greek Americans
Movie • 2020
Narrator
Milk & Money
Movie • 1996
Goneril Plogg
Strange Relations
Movie • 2001
Esther Lipman
Nicky's World
Movie • 1974
Irene Kaminios
The New Abolitionists
Movie • 2020
Self
The Seagull
Movie • 1975
Pauline
Stiletto
Movie • 1969
Mrs. Amato (uncredited)
Not to Forget
Movie • 2021
Judge
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
Movie • 1994
Olympia Dukakis (uncredited)
Scattering Dad
Movie • 1998
Dotty
Signs Out of Time: The Life of Archaeologist Marija Gimbutas
Movie • 2004
Narrator
Her Secret Sessions
Movie • 2016
Arlene
Dream Journey
Movie • 1995
Self
Balkan Island: The Last Story of the Century
Movie • 1997
Mother
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Zelda (voice)
Numb3rs
TV • 2005
Charlotte Yates
Touched by an Angel
TV • 1994
Clara
The View
TV • 1997
Self
The Equalizer
TV • 1985
Judge Paula G. Walsh
Center of the Universe
TV • 2004
Marge Barnett
So Graham Norton
TV • 1998
Self - Guest
Tales of the City
TV • 1993
Anna Madrigal
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Anna Nieves
The Andros Targets
TV • 1977
Marina Angelis
More Tales of the City
TV • 1998
Anna Madrigal
Search for Tomorrow
TV • 1951
Sinatra
TV • 1992
Dolly Sinatra
Intimate Portrait
TV • 1993
Self
Further Tales of the City
TV • 2001
Anna Madrigal
Frasier
TV • 1993
Caller #3 (voice)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV • 1999
Debby Marsh
Joan of Arc
TV • 1999
Mother Babette
Tales of the City
TV • 2019
Anna Madrigal
And Never Let Her Go
TV • 2001
Marguerite Capano
Sex & Violence
TV • 2013
Alex Mandalakis
Inside the Actors Studio
TV • 1994
Self
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Pauline
Bored to Death
TV • 2009
Belinda