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Olympia Dukakis
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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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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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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Frasier
Numb3rs
The Equalizer
The Simpsons
Dr. Kildare
Touched by an Angel
Bored to Death
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
Search for Tomorrow
Death Wish
Working Girl
The Pentagon Wars
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear
Sisters
Tales of the City
Sinatra
Center of the Universe
And Never Let Her Go
The Christmas Spirit
Sex & Violence
Steel Magnolias
Joan of Arc
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
Mr. Holland's Opus
Picture Perfect
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Moonstruck
Look Who's Talking Too
Look Who's Talking
Look Who's Talking Now!
More Tales of the City
A Match Made in Heaven
Further Tales of the City
Fire in the Dark
Production Credits
Sex & Violence
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