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Olympia Dukakis, Oscar-winning Moonstruck actress, has died at age 89 May 1, 2021 / 5:51 PM / AP Olympia Dukakis dies at 89 Olympia Dukakis, the veteran stage and screen actor whose flair for maternal roles helped her win an Oscar as Cher s mother in the romantic comedy Moonstruck, has died. She was 89. Dukakis died Saturday morning in her home in New York City, according to Allison Levy, her agent at Innovative Artists. A cause of death was not immediately released, but her family said in a statement that she had been in failing health for months. Dukakis won her Oscar through a surprising chain of circumstances, beginning with author Nora Ephron s recommendation that she play Meryl Streep s mother in the film version of Ephron s book Heartburn. Dukakis got the role, but her scenes were cut from the film. To make it up to her, director Mike Nichols cast her in his hit play Social Security. Director Norman Jewison saw her in that role and cast her in Moonstr

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