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OLYMPIA DUKAKIS at the 2019 Montclair Film Festival Photography by Neil Grabowsky MONTCLAIR FILM/ EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG NEW YORK Olympia Dukakis, who won an Oscar for her performance as a sardonic, middle-aged mother who advises her headstrong daughter on matters of love in the 1987 romantic film comedy Moonstruck, died on Saturday at age 89. Dukakis a cousin of unsuccessful 1988 Democratic US presidential nominee Michael Dukakis passed away at her New York City home on Saturday morning after months of failing health, according to her agent, Allison Levy. Her daughter, Christina Zorich, was by her side. Ms. Dukakis, the Massachusetts-born daughter of Greek immigrants, worked for decades as a stage, TV, and film actor before rocketing to fame at age 56 playing the mother of Cher’s character in ....
Oscar-winning Moonstruck actress Olympia Dukakis dies at 89 Toggle share menu Advertisement Oscar-winning Moonstruck actress Olympia Dukakis dies at 89 The actress was best known for her performance as a sardonic, middle-aged mother who advises her headstrong daughter on matters of love in the 1987 romantic film comedy Moonstruck. Actress Olympia Dukakis waves at the ceremony for the unveiling of her star on the Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, California, May 24, 2013. (Photo: Reuters/Mario Anzuoni) 02 May 2021 05:21AM (Updated: 02 May 2021 07:42AM) Share this content Bookmark Olympia Dukakis, who won an Oscar for her performance as a sardonic, middle-aged mother who advises her headstrong daughter on matters of love in the 1987 romantic film comedy Moonstruck, died on Saturday (May 1) at age 89. ....
Last modified on Sun 2 May 2021 13.27 EDT After more than two decades of distinguished work in the US theatre as an actor, director and teacher, and appearances in a dozen or so films, Olympia Dukakis, who has died aged 89, became hugely famous overnight by winning the best supporting actress Oscar in 1988 for her performance as Cher’s mother in the romantic film Moonstruck (1987). The course of her career suggests that her ambitions never lay in the direction of Hollywood. Her theatrical credits read like the canon of classic and modern plays: she had roles in plays by Euripides, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Chekhov, Ibsen, Lorca, Pirandello, Brecht, Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams, on and off Broadway, as well as in various regional theatres across the country. In films, she took on several character roles, making an impression in scores of pictures for more than half a century. ....