Olympia Dukakis
Gender: Female
Born: 20th June 1931 (currently 80 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Center of the Universe, Worst Week, Search for Tomorrow, Tales of the City
Movies: Joan of Arc, Mighty Aphrodite, Moonstruck, Mr. Holland's Opus, Never Too Late, Steel Magnolias, The Great New Wonderful, The Librarian: Quest for the Spear, The Thing About My Folks, In the Land of Women, Jane Austen's Mafia!, Away From Her, The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines, Day on Fire, Look Who's Talking, The Last of the Blonde Bombshells, The Rehearsal, Tales of the City, 3 Needles, Dad, Look Who's Talking Now, Poor Things, Picture Perfect, A Match Made in Heaven, Better Living, The Idolmaker, The Event, Sinatra, And Never Let Her Go, Mafia Doctor, The Seagull, The Intended, Death Wish, Walls of Glass, Whiskey School, Digger, Look Who's Talking Too, Montana Amazon, The Cemetery Club, More Tales of the City (1), Jesus, Mary and Joey, Milk and Money, John and Mary, The Wanderers, Sisters, Working Girl, National Lampoon Goes to the Movies, Lilith, Strange Relations, Cooking with B. Smith and Friends: Appetizers, Jeffrey, Borough of Kings, The Pentagon Wars, Rich Kids, Over the Hill, Bereavement, Made for Each Other, Signs Out of Time: The Story of Archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, A Paralyzing Fear: The Story of Polio in America, Climb Against the Odds, Joe Papp in Five Acts, Cloudburst, The Last Keepers, The Intended, In the Spirit, Cloudburst
Olympia Dukakis (born June 20, 1931) is an American actress. In 1987, she won an Academy Award, a BAFTA and a Golden Globe for her performance in Moonstruck. She received another Golden Globe nomination for Sinatra, and Emmy nominations for Lucky Day, More Tales of the City and Joan of Arc.
Dukakis was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the daughter of Alexandra (née Christos) and Constantine S. Dukakis. Her parents were Greek immigrants to the United States, her father from Anatolia and her mother from the Peloponnese. She has a brother, Apollo, and is a cousin of Michael Dukakis, a former governor of Massachusetts and the Democratic nominee for president in 1988, for whom she was a delegate from New Jersey at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. She is an alumna of Arlington High School in Arlington, Massachusetts, and was educated at Boston University.
Dukakis has been married to actor Louis Zorich since 1962. They have three children.
Dukakis has held a lengthy career in a diverse range of films, including Steel Magnolias, Mr. Holland's Opus, Jane Austen's Mafia!, The Thing About My Folks, and Moonstruck, for which she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. She also played
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