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Olympia Dukakis (born June 20, 1931 in Lowell, Massachusetts) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. The daughter of Greek immigrants to the United States, she was educated at Boston University.
Olympia Dukakis has starred in many American movies, including Steel Magnolias, Mr. Holland's Opus, The Thing About My Folks, and Moonstruck (for which she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress). Her theater, film, and television work has also led her to win Obie awards, a Los Angeles Critics Award, and a Golden Globe award. She also played the role of Anna Madrigal in the television Tales of the City productions. Much of Dukakis' talent comes in sharp comic timing, which she has put to good use as sarcastic but wise motherly figures to the lead characters such as Moonstruck and Mr. Holland's Opus.
She will next be seen in the upcoming In the Land of Women.
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Dukakis, Olympia - Summary report by students of Penn State about a keynote speech delivered by Olympia Dukakis to the Panhellenic Council's Women's Awareness Week, 1996.
Dukakis, Olympia - Summary biography of the cinema actress. Publicity by the Eagles Talent Connection Speakers Bureau.
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