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Olympia Dukakis
Olympia Dukakis was an American actress. She performed in more than 130 stage productions, in some 60 films, and in approximately 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.
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entertainment · American actress (1931–2021) · television actor · film actor · stage actor · actor · director · film producer · pedagogue · also Olympia Dukakis, Dukakis
Born 20 June 1931 · Died 1 May 2021 · Q230188
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One of the things that Martin realised about me immediately was that, since I am first generation, the idea of being the other, of not belonging, is a very real thing for me. When I grew up, I always felt that there was the Greeks and there was the Americans - the Greeks were the others
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“One of the things that Martin realised about me immediately was that, since I am first generation, the idea of being the other, of not belonging, is a very real thing for me. When I grew up, I always felt that there was the Greeks and there was the Americans - the Greeks were the others”
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2021· 1 entry
Died 2021-05-01.
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2018· 3 entries
A feature-length documentary about her life, titled Olympia, was released theatrically in the United States
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Dukakis starred in Eleftheromania, which follows an Auschwitz survivor as she recites a true story about a group from the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp
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Olympia, an American documentary film about her life and career, had its festival premiere at DOC NYC
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2013· 2 entries
Starred in and executive-produced the 2013 film Montana Amazon, co-starring Haley Joel Osment
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For her last stage performance, she played Mother Courage in Mother Courage and Her Children at Shakespeare & Company, in Lenox, Massachusetts
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2011· 1 entry
Dukakis guest-starred on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, as attorney Debby Marsh
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2008· 1 entry
Dukakis directed the world premiere production of Todd Logan's Botanic Garden at Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago, Illinois
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2005· 1 entry
Released album “Ellis Island: The Dream of America”.
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2003· 1 entry
Where she played multiple roles in The Chekov Cycle
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2000· 1 entry
Played alongside Ian Holm, Judi Dench, Joan Sims (her final acting performance before her death in 2001), and Romola Garai (her first professional role) in the television film The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
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1998· 1 entry
Starred as Charlotte Kiszko in the British TV drama A Life for a Life: The True Story of Stefan Kiszko (ITV), based on the actual story of a man wrongfully imprisoned for seventeen years for the murder of a child, Le
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1994· 1 entry
“Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult”
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1993· 1 entry
In a Netflix update of Armistead Maupin's Tales of The City
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Moonstruck (1988).
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1987· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for Moonstruck (1987).
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1985· 2 entries
An Ensemble Performance Award, for playing Soot Hudlocke in The Marriage of Bette and Boo
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Studied with Indian mentor Srimata Gayatri Devi in the Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy
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1981· 1 entry
“National Lampoon Goes to the Movies”
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1973· 1 entry
Along with her husband, Louis Zorich, and with other acting couples, she co-founded the Whole Theater Company
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1963· 2 entries
For her off-Broadway performance in Bertolt Brecht's Man Equals Man
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Dukakis's early Off-Broadway presence was rewarded with an Obie Award for Distinguished Performance, as Widow Leocadia Begbick in Man Equals Man (a
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1962· 1 entry
Dukakis married fellow Manhattan stage actor Louis Zorich
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1931· 2 entries
The daughter of Alexandra "Alec" (née Christou) and Constantine "Costas" S
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Born 1931-06-20.
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