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Mick LaSalle May 2, 2021Updated: May 2, 2021, 7:22 pm
Olympia Dukakis and Cher won Golden Globe Awards for “Moonstruck” Dukakis for best supporting actress in a musical or comedy, Cher for best actress. Photo: Reed Saxon, Associated Press 1988
Olympia Dukakis, the Academy Award-winning stage and screen actress who died Saturday, May 1, less than two months before her 90th birthday, projected warmth, sparkle and intellectual curiosity in everything she did. With her silver hair and fierce eyes, she was an embodiment of strength, authenticity and clarity.
Dukakis became famous at the age of 56, when she starred as Cher’s mother in “Moonstruck.” Like Gene Hackman, she had an aura of maturity and it took years for her to age into her natural terrain as a screen actress that of a matriarch. Once she reached that ideal age somewhere around 60 she seemed to magically stay there for at least three decades.
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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
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