Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis is an American actress. She started her career in the theatre, and won an Obie Award for Best Actress in 1963 for her OffBroadway performance in Bertolt Brechts Man Equals Man. She later transitioned to film work and in 1987 she won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and a BAFTA nomination for her performance in Moonstruck. She received another Golden Globe nomination for Sinatra, and Emmy nominations for Lucky Day, More Tales of the City and Joan of Arc.

Dukakis was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the daughter of Constantine S. Dukakis and Alexandra . Her parents were Greek immigrants to the United States, her father from Anatolia and her mother from the Peloponnese. She has a brother, Apollo, and is a cousin of Michael Dukakis, a former governor of Massachusetts and the Democratic nominee for president in 1988, for whom she was a delegate from New Jersey at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. She is an alumna of Arlington High School in Arlington, Massachusetts, and was educated at Boston University.

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