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Rolling Stone Olympia Dukakis, Oscar-Winning ‘Moonstruck’ Actress, Dead at 89
Best Supporting Actress winner also starred
Steel Magnolias and
Olympia Dukakis, the Oscar-winning actress best known for her roles in
The actress’ brother Apollo Dukakis announced his sister’s death on Facebook Saturday. No cause of death was revealed.
“My beloved sister, Olympia Dukakis, passed away this morning in New York City,” he wrote. “After many months of failing health she is finally at peace and with her Louis [Zorich, Dukakis’ husband of 55 years who died in January 2018].”
Olympia Dukakis brought warmth, humor and wit to the stage and screen for almost 60 years, including a stellar run of unforgettable roles in ‘Steel Magnolias’ ‘Tales of the City’ and ‘Moonstruck,’ for which she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar,” the Academy tweeted. “She will be missed.”
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image captionOlympia Dukakis (R) starred alongside Julia Roberts and Daryl Hannah in Steel Magnolias
US actress Olympia Dukakis, who won an Oscar for her role in the 1987 romantic comedy Moonstuck, has died aged 89, her family have announced.
Her brother wrote she was at peace after suffering ill health.
Dukakis had a long and distinguished career in theatre, both as a performer and as a director.
But in her 50s she starred in a series of hit comedies on screen, including an award-winning turn as Cher s mother in Moonstruck.
That run - in the late 1980s - also included roles in Steel Magnolias, Working Girl and Look Who s Talking.
Olympia Dukakis
The veteran stage actress also appeared in Steel Magnolias, Mr. Holland s Opus and as a transgender landlady four times on Tales of the City.
Olympia Dukakis, the dignified actress who received a supporting Oscar for her performance as Cher s nitpicking Brooklyn mother in
Moonstruck, died Saturday. She was 89.
Dukakis died in New York, her brother Apollo wrote on Facebook. After many months of failing health she is finally at peace and with her [husband] Louis.
The late-blooming star also was known for her turn as Clairee Belcher, a woman of fiber and the elegant widowed friend of Ouiser Boudreaux (Shirley MacLaine), in Herbert Ross