Olympia Dukakis

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Olympia Dukakis
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Born	June 20 1931 (age 77) Lowell, Massachusetts

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 provided a voice for The Simpsons episode 'The old man and the key' as Grampa's love interest. Dukakis had a supporting role in the 2005 independent film 3 Needles.

She will next be seen in the upcoming In the Land of Women.

She is a cousin to Michael Dukakis, the former governor of Massachusetts who was the 1988 candidate for U.S. president from the Democratic Party.

Preceded by: Dianne Wiest for Hannah and Her Sisters	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress 1987 for Moonstruck	Succeeded by: Geena Davis for The Accidental Tourist