I-I just wanna *hit* somebody 'til they feel as bad as I do! She and her late husband shared three children - Christina, Peter, and Stefan. After more than two decades of distinguished work in the US theatre as an actor, director and teacher, and appearances in a dozen or so films, Olympia Dukakis, who has died aged 89, became. MAPLEWOOD, N.J. Olympia Dukakis, the veteran stage and screen actress whose flair for maternal roles helped her win an Oscar as Cher's mother in the romantic comedy Moonstruck, has died. [35] It was released theatrically in the United States in July 2020. The first, for her to recite her most famous line from "Moonstruck." 2023 TV GUIDE, A FANDOM COMPANY. Movie (and TV) fans then discovered what East coast theater-going audiences had uncovered decades before -- Olympia Dukakis was an acting treasure. Anthoula Katsimatides is an actor, writer, producer, and voice-over artist. She received three Emmy nominations for her editing work on the non-fiction series The Mind of a Chef (PBS, Netflix). The Oscar-winning actressOlympia Dukakis has died at the age of 89, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Because of this part and several other gay-friendly ones, Dukakis became a hero of the LGBTQ+ movement. She taught acting at NYU and gave master classes for professional theatre companies, colleges, and universities across the country. He bought her a 99 cent ring, and they remained married until his death in 2018. Playing characters like the flinty principal of Mr. Biography. Variety is a part of Penske Media Corporation. Olympia Dukakis Birth Place: Lowell, Massachusetts, United States Profession Actor Actor 95 Credits Forgive Me 2021 Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City 2019 Sex & Violence 2017 Sex and Violence. She was 89. She starred in a documentary about her life, "Olympia" (2019) the same year that she returned to one of her most famous roles in a reboot of "Tales of the . [30] That same year, on May 24, she was honored with the 2,498th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Moonstruck is a 1987 American romantic comedy-drama film directed and co-produced by Norman Jewison, written by John Patrick Shanley, and starring Cher, Nicolas Cage, Danny Aiello, Olympia Dukakis, and Vincent Gardenia.The film follows Loretta Castorini, a widowed Italian-American woman who falls in love with her fianc's hot-tempered, estranged younger brother. She later moved to film acting and won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe, among other accolades, for her performance in Moonstruck (1987). In Moonstruck, that delirious 1987 fairy tale of loopy passion, opera and dowdy depressives who learn how to bloom, Dukakis, as Rose the steel-lasagna wife and mother, attempts to counsel her daughter, the widowed Loretta (Cher), to do the right thing. The series was narrated by Anthony Bourdain, someone she continued to collaborate with on multiple projects over severalyears including his award-winning series' Parts Unknown(CNN) and No Reservations (Travel). She played mom to such leads as Dustin Hoffman in John and Mary (1969), Joseph Bologna in the cult comedy Made for Each Other (1971) and Ray Sharkey in The Idolmaker (1980). Originally intending to become a physical therapist, Dukakis turned to acting with work on and off-Broadway in productions such as "The Aspern Papers". as Joe Cocker, The Kinks, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, George Clinton, Rickie Lee Jones, King Crimson and Ry Cooder. Stella, the butch lesbian of 2011s "Cloudburst," noted as much for its off-color script as for its tender love story. Michael Dukakis began his unsuccessful quest for the presidency. We miss your fighting spirit. All rights reserved. Olympia Dukakis (June 20, 1931 May 1, 2021) was an American actress. The rough-and-tumble atmosphereof her earliest years acted as a crucible for Dukakis. Commercial clients have included McDonalds, Bombas, Skagen, American Express, and Storyhunter. Its been just over a year since the death of Oscar-winning actress Olympia Dukakis. Her brother, Apollo, confirmed the news in a Facebook post. Olympia Dukakis, star of film and Broadway, is remembered after her death at 89 02:11. 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. As actress, director, producer and teacher, she still found the time to raise their three young children. Dukakis is survived by her three children,Christina, Peter and Stefan. Paul composed music for Liev Schreibers Everything Is, Illuminated. Dukakis. Olympia Dukakis (June 20, 1931 - May 1, 2021) was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the daughter of Greek immigrants. I was so excited I could scarcely breathe. Harry curated the first LGBTQ Film Festival and was one of the key organizers of the 1st Pride Parade in Cyprus. Memorial and Museum, and founded the Johnny and Mikey Katsimatides Foundation for Lifein memory of her two brothers. Pamela is also an Associate Producer for "Olympia", a feature documentary about the poetic life of Academy Award winning actress, Olympia Dukakis. Harrys directing and producing credits include Olympia; the award-winning, critically-acclaimed feature documentary on Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis and Yankee Restraint; a character driven piece that examines the intricacies of a gay relationship spanning decades and tackles issues of love and resentment. Beloved screen and stage actress Olympia Dukakis died May 1 at the age of 89. I rapped on the door and heard her signature alto voice bellow, Its open! Tentatively crossing the threshold, I made my way down a narrow hallway. Both would go on to win Academy Awards later that year. Olympia Dukakis, who died on May 1 at 89, had a face like no one else's. Stern but perpetually amused, with a warm leer of a grin that could light up a scene, she looked like the comedy and . [14][15] For the role, she won the 2000 Outer Critics Circle Awards for Outstanding Solo Performance. The Musical, an off-Broadway musical that had several runs and enjoyed sweet success. Sid Ganis co-founded OUT OF THE BLUE ENTERTAINMENT with partner (and wife) Nancy Hult Ganis, in 1996 following a distinguished career as an executive at major studios including Sony Pictures, Lucasfilm, Warner Bros., Paramount, and Columbia Pictures. She reappeared in the sequels, More Tales of the City (1998), Further Tales of the City (2001) and again under the title of Tales of the City (2019). Soon enough, I found myself in front of a small bungalow in a nondescript part ofWest Hollywood. ", According to Deadline, Dukakis was the daughter of Greek immigrants, though the Los Angeles Times reports she described herself as the "poster child for the bad Greek daughter." "My ambition wasn't to win the Oscar. [2], Olympia Dukakis (Greek: ) was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on June 20, 1931, the daughter of Alexandra "Alec" (ne Christos) and Constantine "Costa" S. The course of her career suggests that her ambitions never lay in the direction of Hollywood. [18] The role of a no-nonsense matriarch, Rose Castorini, plays off Cher's Best Actress Award-winning role as daughter Loretta. Once out of that corner of New England and hitting the pavement of the Great White Way, it didn't take long for her to be recognized for her talent and skill. Discovery Company. [25], In 2008, Dukakis directed the world premiere production of Todd Logan's "Botanic Garden" at Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. Before we talked about her lifeunder Hollywood's glare, we talked about her life under the street lamps of Lowell. Dukakis was born to Greek immigrant parents in Massachusetts in 1931. Andrew Fords recent feature length producing and editing credits include 'The Seventh Fire' (Berlin International Film Festival), 'Down the Shore (Anchor Bay, Starz, starring James Gandolfini and Famke Janssen), 'Killing Kasztner' (Toronto International Film Festival), 'A Walk to Beautiful' (Emmy winner, IDA best documentary feature winner, 5 audience awards), released theatrically and broadcast on Nova, and 'Until the Light Takes Us' (Golden Athena award winner for Best Documentary), focusing on Norwegian black metal music and enjoyed a worldwide theatrical release. 2023 Variety Media, LLC. Honored in 2012 as one of Greek Americas 40 Under 40. From rebelling against her overbearing Greek mother to starting her own theatre company, Mavromichalis reveals both the public and private aspects of a woman who faced obstacle after obstacle as she learned how to be comfortable in her own skin and live life with blazing courage. Her first experience as a theatre producer was for Opa! Her agent, Allison Levy, also confirmed her death to CNN. She appeared as Dolly Sinatra in the mini-series of Frank Sinatra's life (1992). Olympia won an Academy Award for her performance in Moonstruck, a role that also earned her a Golden Globe Award, American Comedy Award, and the Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was nominated for the Canadian Academy Award for The Event (2003) and in the middle of the first decade of the 21st century, her roles included 3 Needles, The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines, In the Land of Women, and Away From Her, the 2006 film which cast her alongside Gordon Pinsent as the spouses of two Alzheimer's patients. She is a proud board member of TheNationalSeptember 11thMemorial and Museum, and founded the Johnny and Mikey Katsimatides Foundation for Lifein memory of her two brothers. As Rose says to her unfaithful husband, Cosmo (Vincent Gardenia), in Moonstruck, Your life is not built on nothing. But what, exactly, is that? Did you encounter any technical issues? She later developed and produced autobiographical solo shows, What Will People Think? & Warrior Without A Cause that have garnered many accolades and won awards off-Broadway. She performed in over 130 productions on and off-Broadway and regionally at theatres including the Public Theater, A.C.T., Shakespeare in the Park, Shakespeare & Co., and the Williamstown Theatre Festival, where she also served as Associate Director. She appeared in more than 60 feature and short films, including Steel Magnolias, Cloudburst, Dad, Mr. Hollands Opus, Working Girl, Look Whos Talking I, II & III, Mighty Aphrodite, Jeffrey, Away From Her, among many others. It was to play the great parts." Pamela has worked with innumerable clients bringing them to the next level and has established a respected reputation in doing so. Although she had a stage career that spanned decades, Dukakis is best known for her portrayal of Rose Castorini, the nosy-but-sensitive Italian mother in the 1987 film Moonstruck, stealing many scenes from Cher, who played her daughter. Brooke Lefferts. 2. Honored in 2012 as one of Greek Americas 40 Under 40. Sam has been working in Brooklyn for the last 10 years as an editor, assistant editor, and writer on many documentary feature films and television shows. Her brother Apollo Dukakis, her sons Stefan and Peter Zorich, and four grandchildren thank you for your love, prayers, and kind remembrances during this difficult time, the family said. Should marriage be everyday drudgery or moonstruck craziness? [41] Her life off the screen and stage was very active. Hollands Opus or the trans landlord Anna Madrigal over four installments of Tales of the City, she had the mien of a psychiatrist: a debonair empath with X-ray vision and pouffy white-custard hair, articulating the stubborn truths other characters were bound to resist. Both are master interpreters of Chekhovian plays -- one of their more recent acting collaborations was in "The Chekhov Cycle" in 2003.Making an inauspicious debut in a bit role as a mental patient in Lilith (1964), she tended to gravitate toward off-the-wall films with various offshoots of the ethnic mother. I just wanna hit something! Bush. [29] In 2013, she starred in and executive-produced the 2013 film Montana Amazon, co-starring Haley Joel Osment. Fords television credits include the Emmy-nominated 'Frontier House' series for PBS, and the ground-breaking documentary series,'Family Bonds', for HBO. 10:16 AM EDT, Sun May 2, 2021, Oscar-winning actress Olympia Dukakis dies at 89, Commentators duck for cover as shots fired after high school basketball game, Documents show employer reported Ana Walshe missing, not her husband, See climate activist Greta Thunberg being carried away by German police, Video inside plane of Nepali crash may shed light on what exactly happened, University of Alabama basketball player charged with capital murder, Mob boss walked out of hospital in custody after 30 years on the run, Black box recovered from Nepal plane crash wreckage, Rescuers call out to woman trapped in rubble after Russian missile strike, Tapper asks GOP lawmaker if he will investigate Trump or just Biden, Video: Migrant girls rescued from river near US-Mexico border, Police describe what happened in shooting involving Alabama basketball star, Tapper presses Rep. 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Louis died in 2018, and she is survived by their three children, Christina, Stefan and Peter, four grandchildren and her brother, Apollo. And yet, this ethnic commonality did little to ease her entry into the social circles of the neighborhood. "After many months of failing health she is finally at peace and with her [husband] Louis [Zorich].". She has been successful placing clients in the media such as, THE TALK (CBS), Home & Family (Hallmark Channel), KTLA 5 Morning News, Good Day LA, Daily Variety, Los Angeles Times, OC Register, LA Weekly, LA Magazine, amongst others. In crafting his revealing bio-documentary Olympia, Greek American filmmaker Harry Mavromichalis had unprecedented access to Olympia, her family, and the story of her life. Given this prism, its easy to understand why the roles for which she is best known initially appealed to this grande dame of film. Paul Cantelon is an American composer of film scores and contemporary classical music. In Dad (1989), as a woman laid up with a heart attack watching her husband (Jack Lemmon) enjoying a certain freedom, she is wickedly funny, putting a tincture of venom into almost every line. The first of her many mother parts came in Peter Yatess John and Mary (1969) seen briefly in flashback as Dustin Hoffmans mother. He has also served 10 years on the Board of Directors of Marvel Entertainment until its sale to Disney in 2009, as well as the boards of FIND (Film Independent) and University of California, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive and San Franciscos SF FILM. In the post-production realm, she workedwith Company 3 in films such as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) and 20th Century Fox in the films Epic (2013), Rio 2 (2014) and Ferdinand (2017). Dukakis rose to fame starring in such hits as Moonstruck and Steel Magnolias. Olympia Dukakis (June 20, 1931 - May 1, 2021) was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the daughter of Greek immigrants. In a 1991 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Dukakis revealed that she enjoyed her new fame and the fans it earned her, and was particularly amused when they shouted her famous lines at her while she was out and about even when it was her "Moonstruck" quote, "Your life is going down the toilet. She was 89. "[6], Dukakis was an alumna of Arlington High School in Arlington, Massachusetts,[7] and was educated at Boston University where she majored in physical therapy, earning a BA, which she made use of when treating patients with polio during the height of the epidemic. Her family home was located in The Acre, the largely Greek section of town. Currently, Ganis is a consultant with leading U.S. entertainment technology company Dolby Laboratories. 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She later moved to film acting and won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe, among other accolades, for her performance in Moonstruck. Olympia Dukakis, left, with Cher in Moonstruck. One afternoon I was caught by a horde of kids, tied to a tree, and had my socks stuffed down my throat," she said. Olympia Dukakis, the Oscar-winning actress best known for her roles in Moonstruck and Steel Magnolias, has died at the age of 89. 2023 Cable News Network. She also adapted such plays as "Mother Courage" and "The Trojan Women" for the theater company. [39] It was there they raised their three children: Christina, Peter and Stefan. ", It's Boston local news in one concise, fun and informative email. 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). [5] She contended with pressures within her patriarchal Greek family and around her, "in a neighborhood where ethnic discrimination, particularly against Greeks, was routine. His work has screened at numerous film festivals including Venice, Cannes, Sundance, and Berlin. He went on to score such films as the award-winning Diving Bell And The Butterfly (2007), Sony Pictures The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), Oliver Stones W (2008), New York, I Love You (2009), Tony Goldwyns Conviction (2010), Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel (2011), Woody Allen: A Documentary (2012), and most recently Jane Fonda in Five Acts (2018). 's production of "Vigil" (2011) and as "Prospera" in "The Tempest" (2012) at Shakespeare & Co. She has performed in over 130 productions Off-Broadway and regionally at theaters including the Public Theatre, A.C.T., Shakespeare in the Park, Shakespeare & Co., and the Williamstown Summer Theatre Festival, where she also served as Associate Director. Dukakis's autobiography, Ask Me Again Tomorrow: A Life in Progress, was published in 2003. Transitioning to a professional life centered in New York City, she performed many times in productions in Central Park at the renowned Delacorte Theater. Anthoula Katsimatides is an actor, writer, producer, and voice-over artist. She was a Founding member and Producing Artistic Director of the Whole Theatre in Montclair, NJ, for 19 years; also a founding member of the Actors Company and the Charles Playhouse in Boston. He went on to score such films as the award-winning Diving Bell And The. Anthoulais thrilled to be an executive producer ofOlympia, a film, about herinspiringmentor. Olympia published her best-selling autobiography "Ask Me Again Tomorrow: A Life in Progress" in 2003, an introspective chronicle full of her trademark candor and wry humor. Share this - copied. A native of Massachusetts and the daughter of Greek immigrants, Dukakis was the first cousin of former state Gov. Currently, she is a producer at Boipeba Filmes, led by the Academy Award-nominated director Carlos Saldanha. As a girl, she dominated in sports and was a three-time New England fencing champion. Anthoulais thrilled to be an executive producer ofOlympia, a film about herinspiringmentor. Stern but perpetually amused, with a warm leer of a grin that could light up a scene, she looked like the comedy and tragedy masks fused together. in a career that spanned more than six decades, actor olympia dukakis appeared in classic stage plays like ibsen's peer gynt, sophocles' electra, and eugene o'neill's long day's journey into night, but it was her performance as cher's sardonic mother, rose castorini, in the 1987 romantic comedy moonstruck that brought her fameand an academy Dukakis was a longtime stage actress, but she broke into the Hollywood mainstream at the age of 56 when she portrayed Cher's mother in the 1987 classic romantic comedy "Moonstruck." He currently serves as Vice President on the Academys Board ofGovernors and as chair of the Academys Museum Committee. It's not even the language! There were no gates, no fences, no security. [16], Moonstruck (1987) was directed by Norman Jewison who predicted Dukakis would receive honors for the role. After working professionally as a modern dancer and choreographer he went back to school and received his Masters in Film Directing from New York University. Olympia herself was a delegate from New Jersey at the 1988 Democratic national convention. Gail Fisher - Mannix. I had a chip on my shoulder so big it was like a tree, she mused. You have been subscribed to WBUR Today. "It was to play the great parts.". Academy Award-winning actress and theater icon Olympia Dukakis is well known and beloved to viewers across America for her performances on stage and in classic films like Moonstruck and Steel Magnolias. [40], 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. Olympia Dukakis attends the premiere of "Tales Of The City" at The Metrograph in New York City on June 3, 2019. "My beloved sister, Olympia Dukakis, passed away this morning in New York City, he wrote. [19], She took on powerful roles on the small screen as well. See what he found. But then, that's really the fate of many women today. Olympia Dukakis, the dry-witted stage and screen actress who toiled under the radar for nearly 30 years before becoming a household name with her scene-stealing turn as the indomitable matriarch . She later returned to her alma mater and entered the graduate program in performing arts, earning a Master of Fine Arts degree.Olympia found early success by distinguishing herself first on stage performing in summer stock and with several repertory and Shakespearean companies throughout the county. [10] But her stage work began across the summer of 1961, in productions at the Williamstown Summer Theatre,[11] 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. Michael Dukakis, who became the Democratic nominee for president in 1988, but ultimately lost to then-Vice President George H.W. Shirley MacLaine, left, with Olympia Dukakis in Steel Magnolias, 1989. A good portion of her successes was launched within the walls of her own theater company, which encouraged the birth of new and untried plays.Olympia's prolific stage directing credits include many of the classics: "Orpheus Descending," "The House of Bernarda Alba," "Uncle Vanya," and "A Touch of the Poet," as well as the more contemporary ("One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Kennedy's Children"). MAPLEWOOD, N.J. (AP) Olympia Dukakis, the veteran stage and screen actress whose flair for maternal roles helped her win an Oscar as Cher's mother in the romantic comedy "Moonstruck," has died. Dukakis continued to be much in demand in the movies, with roles such as Jocasta in Woody Allens Mighty Aphrodite (1995), and the stern but lovable school principal in Mr Hollands Opus (1995). In addition to decades in the theater and an award-winning film career, Dukakis also taught drama classes at New York University. You could easily have envisioned her as the shrink on The Sopranos but then, with a nudge, it wouldnt be hard to imagine her as Tony Sopranos mother, since even in the quaintest settings Olympia Dukakis had a stealth power and an old-world comfortableness with the dark side. In 1999, she premiered a one-woman play "Rose," at the National Theatre in London and subsequently on Broadway in 2000. She scored theater triumphs in "A Man's a Man," for which she won an Off-Broadway Obie Award in 1962; several productions of "The Cherry Orchard" and "Mother Courage"; "Six Characters in Search of an Author"; "The Rose Tattoo"; "The Seagull"; "The Marriage of Bette and Boo" (another Obie Award); and, more notably, her many performances as the title role in "Hecuba." Another striking stage performance came in an off-Broadway production of Tennessee Williamss 1963 drama The Milk Train Doesnt Stop Here Anymore (2011), as the wealthy, dying gorgon Flora Goforth. Best known as a screen actress, she started her career in theater. Your lifes going down the toilet!) into addled diva classics, but the reason the film won her the Oscar for supporting actress is that she cut right to the romantic paradox that Rose was the only one in the movie wise enough to see. So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. Winning the Oscar led inevitably to more recognition, though not necessarily bigger parts. And thats what she continued to do. 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