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 offBroadway performance in Bertolt Brechts 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 Dukakiss autobiography Ask Me Again Tomorrow A Life in Progress was published in 2003 In 2018 a featurelength documentary about her life titled Olympia was released theatrically in the United States Description above from the Wikipedia article Olympia Dukakis licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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