Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis, actress, director, producer, teacher, activist and most recently, author with her best-selling memoir, “Ask Me Again Tomorrow”, received an Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actress category, the New York Film Critics Award, the Los Angeles Film Critics Award and the Golden Globe Award for her work in the Norman Jewison film, Moonstruck. Feature films to be released include In the Land of Women with Meg Ryan, Three Needles (shot in S. Africa) and The Librarian II.

Recent films include the highly acclaimed The Event, The Intended (shot in Malaysia and directed by Kristian Levring) and The Thing About My Folks with Paul Reiser. Other feature films include Mr. Holland’s Opus with Richard Dreyfus, Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite, and I Love Trouble with Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts. Audiences continue to seek out videos of The Cemetery Club, Steel Magnolias, directed by Herbert Ross, Dad co-starring Jack Lemmon, and Look Who’s Talking I, II & III with John Travolta and Kirstie Alley.

On television, Dukakis co-starred in Last of the Blond Bombshells with Judi Dench for HBO and in Ladies and the Champ with Marion Ross for ABC. One of her favorite projects, Tales of the City, a 6-hour mini-series based on the novel by Armistead Maupin, was a controversial blockbuster for PBS. She went on to star in the sequels More Tales of the City and Further Tales of the City (Showtime) for which she earned Emmy, Screen Actors Guild and BAFTA nominations. She starred with Frank Sinatra in Young at Heart on CBS (Emmy nomination).

Other TV movie projects include Strange Relations, Scattering Dad, A Century of Women, a 6-hour mini-series for TBS, Fire in the Dark for CBS, Lucky Days co-starring Amy Madigan for ABC for which she received an Emmy nomination, The Last Act is a Solo for which she received an ACE Award, and Sinatra, a mini-series for CBS in which Dukakis portrayed Frank Sinatra's mother and was nominated for an Emmy.

Dukakis actively participated in first cousin Michael Dukakis' presidential campaign in 1988. She is a founding member of Voices of Earth, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, and a member of several outstanding organizations including Survivors of Torture, Broadway Cares, NOW, Women in Film, Congress of Racial Equality, and Amnesty International. She continues to be a popular speaker at women's expos and conferences throughout the United States and has participated in nationwide awareness campaigns on the issues of domestic abuse, osteoporosis, senior services, and cholesterol.

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