Olympia Dukakis (June 20, 1931 – May 1, 2021) was an American actress. She performed in more than 130 stage productions, in some 60 films, and in approximately 50 television series. Best known as a screen actress, she started her career in theater. Not long after her arrival in New York City, she won an Obie Award for Best Actress in 1963 for her off-Broadway performance in Bertolt Brecht's Man Equals Man.
She later moved to film acting and won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe, among other accolades, for her performance in Moonstruck (1987). She received another Golden Globe nomination for Sinatra (1992) and Emmy Award nominations for Lucky Day (1991), More Tales of the City (1998) and Joan of Arc (1999). Dukakis's autobiography, Ask Me Again Tomorrow: A Life in Progress, was published in 2003.[1] In 2018, a feature-length documentary about her life, titled Olympia, was released theatrically in the United States.[2]
Early life and education
Olympia Dukakis (Greek: Ολυμπία Δουκάκη) was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on June 20, 1931, the daughter of Alexandra "Alec" (née Christou) and Constantine "Costas" S. Dukakis.[3] Her parents were Greek immigrants; her father a refugee from Anatolia, and her mother an immigrant from the Peloponnese.[4][1] She had a brother, Apollo, six years her junior. Her cousin was Massachusetts Governor and US Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis. As a girl, she was significantly involved in sports and was a three-time New England fencing champion.[5] She contended with pressures within her patriarchal Greek family and around her, "in a neighborhood where ethnic discrimination, particularly against Greeks, was routine."[6]
In 1963, Dukakis's early Off-Broadway presence was rewarded with an Obie Award for Distinguished Performance, as Widow Leocadia Begbick in Man Equals Man (a.k.a., A Man's A Man).[12] She continued to perform there every few years, with her last appearance on that stage occurring in 2003, where she played multiple roles in The Chekov Cycle.
Dukakis's stage directing credits include many classics, such as Orpheus Descending, The House of Bernarda Alba, Uncle Vanya, and A Touch of the Poet, as well as more contemporary works, such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Kennedy's Children.
She also adapted plays such as "Mother Courage" and The Trojan Women for her Montclair, New Jersey-situated theater company. Her Broadway theatre credits include Who's Who in Hell and Social Security. She appeared in Martin Sherman's one-woman play, Rose, entirely a monologue about a woman who survived the Warsaw Ghetto, in London and then on Broadway.[14][15] For the role, she won the 2000 Outer Critics Circle Awards for Outstanding Solo Performance. Twenty-two years after earning her first Obie, she won her second in 1985, a Ensemble Performance Award, for playing Soot Hudlocke in The Marriage of Bette and Boo.[3]
Screen
Dukakis' first appearance on screen was in avant-garde film creator Gregory J. Markopoulos' 1963 film Twice a Man, in which she plays the role of the protagonist's mother whom he meets as a young woman.[16]
Moonstruck (1987) was directed by Norman Jewison who predicted Dukakis would receive honors for the role.[18] She believed him after receiving the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In addition to her Oscar, she took the Golden Globe in the same category. The honors compounded as she collected the Los Angeles and New York Film Critics Awards, all in recognition of her talent, some acting improvised, as she delivered a serious while hilarious performance.[19] Her role of the no-nonsense matriarch, Rose Castorini, plays off Cher's Best Actress Award-winning role as daughter Loretta.
She took on significant work on the small screen as well. In 1998, she starred as Charlotte Kiszko in the British TV drama A Life for a Life: The True Story of Stefan Kiszko(ITV), based on the actual story of a man wrongfully imprisoned for seventeen years for the murder of a child, Lesley Molseed, after police suppressed evidence of his innocence.[21][22]
In 2018, Dukakis starred in Eleftheromania, which follows an Auschwitz survivor as she recites a true story about a group from the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.[33] The following year, Dukakis reprised the role of Anna Madrigal, which she had first played in 1993, in a Netflix update of Armistead Maupin's Tales of The City.[34][35]
Dukakis's final performance is as a judge in the 2021 film Not to Forget.[38]
Personal life
In 1962, Dukakis married fellow Manhattan stage actor Louis Zorich.[39] Planning for a family, they moved out of the city in 1970 to settle in Montclair, New Jersey.[40] It was there that they raised their three children: Christina, Peter, and Stefan. They had four grandchildren.[41]
In her 2003 autobiography, Ask Me Again Tomorrow: A Life in Progress, Dukakis describes the challenges she faced as a first-generation Greek-American in an area with anti-Greek ethnic bigotry, violence, and discrimination; difficulties with her mother and in other relationships; and battles with substances and chronic illness.[42]
She led an off-screen and off-stage active life. She taught acting for fifteen years at NYU[43] and gave master classes for professional theatre universities, colleges, and companies across the country.[42] She received the National Arts Club Medal of Honor.[32]
Dukakis became an adherent of Goddess worship, a feminist form of modern Paganism, during a production of The Trojan Women in 1982. From 1989, she was publicly outspoken about this and produced improvised stage performances based on the movement's mythology.[44] For ten years, beginning in 1985, she studied with Indian mentor Srimata Gayatri Devi in the Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy.[45]
A strong advocate for women's rights and LGBT rights, including same-sex marriage, Dukakis embraced the roles of a trans landlady in Tales of the City,[35] and a butch lesbian in Cloudburst.[46] She was a figure on the lecture circuit discussing topics such as women living with chronic illness, life in the theater, the environment, and feminism. She has said,[6][47]
I recognize that the real pulse of life is transformation, yet I work in a world dominated by men and the things men value, where transformation is not the coinage. It's not even the language!
Death
After a period of ill health, Dukakis died under hospice care at her home in Manhattan on May 1, 2021, at the age of 89.[9][3]
^ abWolff, Margaret (2004). "Olympia Dukakis". In Sweet Company: Conversations with Extraordinary Women about Living a Spiritual Life. Twin Lakes, Wisconsin: Lotus Press. ISBN978-0-9720861-0-3.
^Goodman, Barbara C.; Howard, Marjorie (2015). "Six". Legendary Locals of Arlington. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN978-1-4396-5418-7.
^Wolff, Margaret (2006). "Olympia Dukakis". In Sweet Company: Conversations with Extraordinary Women about Living a Spiritual Life. John Wiley & Sons. p. 86. ISBN978-0-7879-8338-3.
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