Olympia Dukakis

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Olympia Dukakis (born June 20, 1931) is a Greek American actress.

She began her work in theater and received an Obie Award for Best Actress in Bertolt Brecht's Man Equals Man in 1963.

She later moved to film acting, and in 1987, she received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and a BAFTA nomination for her appearance in Moonstruck.

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Early life and education

Olympia Dukakis (Greek: ) was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on June 20, 1931, the granddaughter of Alexandra "Alec" (née Christos) and Constantine "Costa" Dukakis. Her parents were Greek immigrants; her father, a migrant from Anatolia, and her mother from the Peloponnese; Apollo, she had a six-year-old brother, was her junior. She excelled in sports as a child and was a three-time New England fencing champion. "In a neighborhood where ethnic discrimination, particularly against Greeks," she complained, she suffered with pressures within and around her.

Dukakis, alumna of Arlington High School in Massachusetts, was educated at Boston University in physical therapy, earning a Bachelor's degree in physical therapy, which she used to treat patients with polio at the time. She returned to BU and obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree in performing arts.

Personal life

Louis Zorich, a fellow Manhattan stage actor, married Dukakis in 1962. They escaped from the city in 1970 to Montclair, New Jersey, planning for a family. Christina, Peter, and Stefan were among the three children raised there. They had four grandchildren.

Dukakis' book "A Life in Progress" (1993) discusses the challenges she faced as a first-generation Greek-American in an area plagued by anti-Greek ethnic bigotry, violence, and discrimination; problems with her mother and other intimate relationships; and battles with opioids and chronic illness. Her life off the screen and stage was very active. She taught acting at NYU for 15 years and taught master classes in professional theatre universities, colleges, and companies around the country. She was given the National Arts Club Medal of Honor.

During a 1982 version of The Trojan Women, Dukakis became a devotee of Goddess worship, a feminist extension of modern Paganism. She was outspoken about this from 1989 and created improvised stage performances based on the movement's myths. She studied with Srimata Gayatri Devi, an Indian scholar, for ten years, beginning in 1985 in the Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy. Dukakis, a strong advocate for women's rights and LGBT rights, as well as same-sex marriage in Tales of the City, and a butch lesbian in Cloudburst, embraced the roles of a trans landlady and a butch lesbian. She was a figure on the lecture circuit, addressing topics such as women with persistent illness, life in the theatre, education, and feminist feminism. "I know that the true pulse of life is change, but I work in a world dominated by women and the things men value, not the currency.

It's not even the language!"

Dukakis died of ill health at her Manhattan home on May 1, 2021, at the age of 89.

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Career

Dukakis began her stage life in 1961 in the northwestern corner of Massachusetts, in the northwestern region. It didn't take long for her to be recognized for her talent and skill once she stepped out of that corner of New England and struck the pavement of the Great White Way. In 1963, Dukakis' early life Off-Broadway was recognized with an Obie Award for Distinguished Service, as Widow Leocadia Begbick in Man Equals Man (a.k.a., A Man A Man). But she began performing in the summer of 1961, in the Williamstown Summer Theatre, where she appeared on stage for the first time in 2003, where she appeared in multiple roles in The Chekov Cycle. She had started her film career in 1963. She appeared in several shows in Central Park at the famed Delacorte Theater, transitioning to a professional life centred in New York City. She appeared in Mother Courage and Her Children at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts, in 2013. She returned to Western Massachusetts in 2013 for her last stage appearance.

Louis Zorich, her husband, and other prominent actresses, co-founded the Whole Theater Company. Our Town was the company's first production in 1973. With Dukakis as the artistic director, the theater saw out five productions per season for nearly two decades. Euripides, Eugene O'Neill, Samuel Beckett, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and Lanford Wilson were among Euripides' works during this period. José Ferrer, Colleen Dewhurst, Blythe Danner, and Samuel L. Jackson were among the performers on Dukakis and her partner's.

Some of the classics, including Orpheus Descending, Uncle Vanya, A Touch of the Poet, and A Touch of the Poet, as well as the more recent; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Kennedy's Children are among Dukakis' numerous stage directing credits include Orpheus Descending, Ascending, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Children. For her Montclair, New Jersey based theater company, she also adapted "Mother Courage" and The Trojan Women. Who's Who in Hell and Social Security are two of her Broadway credits. Rose, Martin Sherman's one-woman performance about a woman who survived the Warsaw Ghetto, was first performed in London and then on Broadway. She received the 2000 Outer Critics Circle Awards for Outstanding Solo Achievement in the role. In 1985, she won her second Obie after winning her first Obie, and she won her second in 1985, a Ensemble Achievement Award for playing Soot Hudlocke in The Marriage of Bette and Boo.

Dukakis appeared in a number of films, including Steel Magnolias, Mr. Holland's Opus, Jane Austen's Mafia!, The Thing About My Folks, and Moonstruck, for which she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. Anna Madrigal, a daughter of the City television mini-series, earned her an Emmy Award nomination, and she appeared on Search for Tomorrow as Dr. Barbara Moreno (1983), who romanced Stu Bergman. In Frank Sinatra's mini-series (1992), she appeared as Dolly Sinatra.

Norman Jewison, who predicted that Dukakis would be rewarded for his work in 1987, predicted that Moonstruck (1987) would be praised. She believed him after being given the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She received the Golden Globe in the same class as her Oscar. The awards were compounded as she collected the Los Angeles and New York Film Critics Awards, all in recognition of her performance, some acting improvised, as she gave a serious yet funny appearance. Rose Castorini, Cher's Best Actress Award-winning role as daughter Loretta, plays a no-nonsense matriarch. She was nominated for the Canadian Academy Award for the Event (2003) and in the first decade of the 21st century, she appeared in 3 Needles, The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines, In the Land of Women, and Away From Her, the 2006 film in which she appeared alongside Gordon Pinsent as the spouses of two Alzheimer's patients.

She appeared on the small screen in a variety of roles. Charlotte Kiszko appeared in A Life for a Life: The Real Story of a Child (ITV), based on a man wrongfully sentenced to seventeen years in prison for the murder of a child, Lesley Molseed, after police suppressed evidence of her innocence. In a different style, she played Grandpa's love for the Simpsons' "The Old Man and the Key" (2004). She appeared in Ian Holm, Judi Dench, Joan Sims (her last acting appearance before her death in 2001) and Romola Garai (her first professional appearance) in the television film The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (1999).

In 2008, Dukakis helmed Todd Logan's "Botanic Garden" at Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. That same year she appeared in the revival of Tennessee Williams' The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, opposite Kevin Anderson at the Hartford Stage, and co-adapted and starred in the world-premiere of Another Side of the Island, based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Dukakis appeared on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2011. Debby Marsh, an advocate, was a character in the film The role of an attorney was played by the actress in Debby Marsh. Haley Joel Osment co-starring Haley Joel Osment appeared in and co-produced the 2013 film Montana Amazon. On May 24, she was honoured with the 2,498th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame that same year.

Dukakis appeared in Eleftheromania, which follows an Auschwitz survivor as she recounts a true tale about a group from the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. In a Netflix recreation of Armistead Maupin's Tales of The City, Dukakis reprised Anna Madrigal, which she had first appeared in 1993.

In 2018, Olympia, an American documentary film about her life and work, had its premiere at DOC NYC. Whoopi Goldberg, Laura Linney, Ed Asner, Lainie Kazan, Armistead Maupin, Austin Pendleton, Diane Laddd, and Dukakis' cousin, Governor Michael Dukakis are among the film's starring Whoopi Goldberg, Laura Linney, Ed Asner, Ed Asner, Lainie Kazan, Austin Pendleton. In July 2020, it was announced theatrically in the United States.

In the 2021 film Not to Forget, Dukakis' final role is as a judge.

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