
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.
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Films
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TV Shows
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Crew Credits
Known For
115 Credits
The Simpsons
as Zelda (voice)
1989

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Debby Marsh
1999

The View
as Self
1997

Frasier
as Caller #3 (voice)
1993

Great Performances
as Pauline
1971

The Idolmaker
as Mrs. Vacarri
1980

Numb3rs
as Charlotte Yates
2005

Dr. Kildare
as Anna Nieves
1961

The Equalizer
as Judge Paula G. Walsh
1985

Intimate Portrait
as Self
1993

Touched by an Angel
as Clara
1994

So Graham Norton
as Self - Guest
1998
