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Olympia Dukakis
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Olympia Dukakis was an American artist whose professional career spanned from 1961 to 2021. Born on June 20, 1931, she passed away on May 1, 2021. She had three children. Her recorded works include *Supplications* and the *Ask Me Again Tomorrow* series, which was released on both LP and CD formats.
Dukakis was recognized in the Academy Award Best Supporting Actress collection and the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection. She is also referenced by 540 other encyclopedia articles.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Olympia
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Lowell
- Place of death
- Manhattan
- Spouse
- Louis Zorich
- Occupation
- pedagogue
- Political party
- Democratic Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Award
- Obie Award
- Field of work
- pedagogy
- Image
- Olympia Dukakis 2019.jpg
- Number of children
- 3
- Residence
- New York City
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- Commons category
- Olympia Dukakis
- date of birth
- 1931-06-20
- Commons gallery
- Olympia Dukakis
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
- relative
- Michael Dukakis
- start of work period
- 1961-00-00
- social media followers
- 2303
- date of death
- 2021-05-01
- end of work period
- 2021-00-00
- name in native language
- Olympia Dukakis
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Encyclopedic overview
Olympia Dukakis (June 20, 1931 – May 1, 2021) 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.
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.
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