Olympia Dukakis's brother Apollo confirmed her death in a Facebook post, noting that the actress had been dealing with health issues. [22] In 2000, she played alongside Ian Holm, Judi Dench, Joan Sims (her final acting performance before her death in 2001),[23] and Romola Garai (her first professional role)[24] in the television film The Last of the Blonde Bombshells. In 2005, Sid was elected to his first term as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, a positionwhich he held for four consecutive terms. Having long established herself as a respected stage actress and veteran performer in dozens of film and television projects, Olympia Dukakis achieved overnight stardom at the tender age of 56 with her Oscar-winning portrayal in "Moonstruck" (1987). [12], With her husband, Louis Zorich, and with other acting couples, she co-founded the Whole Theater Company. I never told my parents, but by the time I turned 11, I carried a knife with me everywhere I went. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the pair met while auditioning for an off-Broadway play. [14][15] For the role, she won the 2000 Outer Critics Circle Awards for Outstanding Solo Performance. Soon enough, I found myself in front of a small bungalow in a nondescript part ofWest Hollywood. 2023 TV GUIDE, A FANDOM COMPANY. [continues sobbing] Clairee : Here! Olympia Dukakis, an Oscar-winning actress for her role in Moonstruck, died Saturday in New York City. Feed one more bite of my food to your dogs, old man, and Ill kick you to death, she tells her father-in-law at the dinner table. [8] She later returned to BU and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in performing arts. 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. Currently, she is a producer at Boipeba Filmes, led by the Academy Award-nominated director Carlos Saldanha. A native Brazilian,Murielhas established her career in New York City working with a wide array of projects that range from indie documentaries to studio animated feature films. [1] In 2018, a feature-length documentary about her life, titled Olympia, was released theatrically in the United States. Her cousin Michael was our governor for a time, as well as the 1988 Democratic presidential nominee. Paul Cantelon is an American composer of film scores and contemporary classical music. She won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for the role. The play earned her an Outer Critics Circle Award and Drama Desk Award nomination and she continues to tour the country with it.Olympia was seen on the New York stage in the Roundabout Theatre's production of "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore" (2011), in San Francisco in A.C.T. 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 . "My ambition wasn't to win the Oscar," the veteran stage and screen actor said. 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. She majored in physical therapy at Boston University, where she graduated with a BA. Playing a Holocaust survivor, sitting on a bench, she held an audience for nearly two hours. Updated After the triumph of Moonstruck, she played a tart-tongued matriarch in Steel Magnolias (1989), the gossipy small-town weeper in which she kept dropping in to do what she did best: preside. The burglar left only her nameplate. I have a willingness to engage that is rooted in being Greek, a willingness to take on a fight. Voiced with her signature gravelly timbre, Olympia told her truth, loudly and often. And yet, this ethnic commonality did little to ease her entry into the social circles of the neighborhood. Moreover, she was a strong advocate of women's rights and environmental causes. A member of SAG-AFTRA and AEA, a true artist at heart, her love for performing on-screen ismatched by her passion for theatre work. 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. Featuring interviews with Laura Linney, Whoopi Goldberg, Diane Ladd, Lainie Kazan and Armistead Maupin, Olympiaseamlessly blends past and present culminating on the steps of the Dukakis' humble ancestral home in Lesbos, Greece where we see Olympia's life come full circle. Olympia Dukakis, star of film and Broadway, is remembered after her death at 89 02:11. 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. It was to play the great parts." My ambition wasnt to win the Oscar, she said after her Moonstruck win. 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. [31], Dukakis became an adherent of Goddess worship, a feminist form of modern Paganism, during a production of The Trojan Women in 1982. Harry curated the first LGBTQ Film Festival and was one of the key organizers of the 1st Pride Parade in Cyprus. 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. Dukakis. Her producing credit for documentary includes the feature "The Case of Josephine H." by the renowned Polish artist Izabella Gustowska which was released in the 2014 New Horizons International Film Festival and the short Suit Yourself showcased at 2012 My Hero Film Festival. Susan Dey - The Partridge Family. In this June 26, 2011 file photo, Actress Olympia Dukakis, a celebrity Grand Marshall for the 41st annual Gay Pride parade, waves to the crowd in San Francisco. They had four grandchildren. 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). I flew to Los Angeles, rented a car and plugged the address her assistant had given me into my GPS. Bonnie Low-Kramen was the personal assistant to the actor Olympia Dukakis for 25 years. In the post-production realm, she workedwith Company 3 in films such as The Secret Life of. Her first experience as a theatre producer was for Opa! A Warner Bros. Over the duration of their marriage, she and her husband have experienced shared successes, appearing together in "Long Day's Journey Into Night," "Camino Real, "The Three Sisters" and "The Seagull," among many others. [16], Moonstruck (1987) was directed by Norman Jewison who predicted Dukakis would receive honors for the role. Dukakis passed away three years after the death of her husband, fellow actor Louis Zorich. In 1963, Dukakis' early life Off-Broadway 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). 50 Greatest Romantic Comedies of All Time The actress' brother. Paul composed music for Liev Schreibers Everything Is Illuminated. "Olympia delivers an uncommonly personal, cinemaverity-style portrait of its fascinating, iconoclastic subject.". In 2017, she worked in the production of 'Okja' and 'Sense 8'. "My ambition wasn't to win the Oscar. Lily Tomlin - Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. Facebook 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. This was underlined by Cloudburst (2011), a road movie in which Dukakis, as a self-styled old butch dyke, and her companion of 31 years (Brenda Fricker), take off from the US to Canada to get married. Dukakis kept working steadily through her 80s, including supporting roles on the limited series "Sex and Violence" (OUTtv 2013-15) and the Canadian drama "Forgive Me" (Super Channel 2013-18). She is quoted as having said, "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. The actress referred to her 1988 win as the year of the Dukakii because it was also the year Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, her cousin, was the Democratic Partys presidential nominee. In Moonstruck, she turned lines like that (or the even more indelible Whats the matter with you? Thank you! He currently serves as Vice President on the Academys Board ofGovernors and as chair of the Academys Museum Committee. [9], Prior to her film career, Dukakis began a decades-long stage life working in 1961 in productions at the Williamstown Summer Theater, in the northwestern corner of Massachusetts. I always thought people's hands were the best barometer of the kind of life they had led. Her shoulders relaxed and she motioned for me to come alongside her. I was so excited I could scarcely breathe. After many months of failing health she is finally at peace and with her Louis, her brother Apollo Dukakis posted on Facebook. His on-screen work includes appearances in Steven Spielberg's The Post, Tamara Jenkins' Private Life and TV shows including Homeland, House of Cards, Godfather of Harlem and The Plot Against America. Pamela has worked with innumerable clients bringing them to the next level and has established a respected reputation in doing so. But then, that's really the fate of many women today. [26] That same year she starred in the revival of Tennessee Williams' The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, opposite Kevin Anderson at the Hartford Stage,[27] and co-adapted and starred in the world-premiere of Another Side of the Island, based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest, at Alpine Theatre Project in Whitefish, Montana. Movie (and TV) fans then discovered what East coast theater-going audiences had uncovered decades before -- Olympia Dukakis was an acting treasure. Anthoulais thrilled to be an executive producer ofOlympia, a film about herinspiringmentor. The course of her career suggests that her ambitions never lay in the direction of Hollywood. Dukakis again appeared in the miniseries, which was her last television role. 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. She was 89. [41] Her life off the screen and stage was very active. All rights reserved. "My beloved sister, Olympia Dukakis, passed away this morning in New York City," he wrote. Television: Big Driver, Sex & Violence, Forgive Me, Bored to Death, Last of the Blond Bombshells, Sinatra (Golden Globe Nominee), Joan of Arc (Emmy Nominee), Tales of the City, More Tales of the City (Emmy Nominee), Further Tales of the City among more than 40 others. He is a writer, director, producer with multiple short films, music videos and commercials under his belt. Within a few steps, I found myself in her kitchen. Should marriage be everyday drudgery or moonstruck craziness? In films, she took on several character roles, making an impression in scores of pictures for more than half a century. 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. Steam as well as Mr Comas latest feature film American Falls, currently in post-production. Id like to take a photograph of your hands. She taught acting for 15 years at NYU[42] and gave master classes for professional theatre universities, colleges and companies across the country. The Musical, an off-Broadway musical that had several runs and enjoyed sweet success. She performed in more than 130 stage productions, more than 60 films and in 50 television series. Amanda Blake - Gunsmoke. 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Pamela is also an Associate Producer for "Olympia", a feature documentary about the poetic life of Academy Award winning actress, Olympia Dukakis. I was fortunate enough to spend a few hours with Olympia one lazy Saturday morning,more than a decade ago. The lioness of Lowell. 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. Movie (and TV) fans then discovered what East coast theater-going audiences had uncovered decades before -- Olympia Dukakis was an acting treasure. 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. Olympia herself was a delegate from New Jersey at the 1988 Democratic national convention. Currently, she has two feature films in the development stage with White Night Films. Because they know they can. Thats the kind of line that followed Dukakis around the kind her fans would come up to her on the street wanting her to repeat. 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. 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). She was 89. I've always been ready to go first! The Musical, an off-Broadway musical that had several runs and enjoyed sweet success. Winning the Oscar led inevitably to more recognition, though not necessarily bigger parts. Bush. 2020 Ella Bean Productions. 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. Across that span, productions included the works of Euripides, Eugene O'Neill, Samuel Beckett, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and Lanford Wilson. Biography. But what, exactly, is that? Michael Dukakis began his unsuccessful quest for the presidency. Neither of them got the part, but their relationship was clearly built to last. I'm supposed to go first. Karen Valentine - Room 222. Walter Mitty (2013) and 20th Century Fox in the films Epic (2013), Rio 2 (2014) and Ferdinand (2017). Dukakis made her film debut as a patient in a mental hospital in Robert Rossens Lilith (1964). No, no, I stammered, not of your face. 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. 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 appeared as Dolly Sinatra in the mini-series of Frank Sinatra's life (1992). Long a vital, respected thespian of the classic and contemporary stage, this grand lady did not become a household name and sought-after film actress until age 56 when she turned in a glorious, Oscar-winning performance as Cher 's sardonic mother in the romantic comedy Moonstruck (1987). With a career spanning thirty years, and 45recorded albumin the United States, Europeand Greece,Alexia changed Greek record sales history with her series of gold and platinum albums for CBS-Columbia, Air Music, Polygram, Universal Music, BMG, and Sony Music Internationalin the genres of Pop, Jazz, Improvisation/ Experimental, Worldand Film Music. 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. Get a first look at Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana in 'The Crown' . Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. 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. 2023 Cable News Network. She was 89. [35] It was released theatrically in the United States in July 2020. ", It's Boston local news in one concise, fun and informative email. Olympia Dukakis, the veteran stage and screen actor whose flair for maternal roles helped her win an Oscar as Cher's mother in the romantic comedy Moonstruck, has died. Miss Dukakis, would it be all right if I took your picture? For the first time since we had been together, I saw her stiffen. She was also a figure on the lecture circuit covering topics as widespread as life in the theater to feminism, Alzheimer's, diabetes, and osteoporosis.A hardcore New Yorker, she resided there following the death of her husband in 2018, and until her death in May 2021. Her Broadway theatre credits include Who's Who in Hell and Social Security. In the early 90s, Paul formed the eclectic band, Wild Colonials, with the singer, Angela McCluskey, recording two albums for Geffen Records and performing with such artists as Joe Cocker, The Kinks, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, George Clinton, Rickie Lee Jones, King Crimson and Ry Cooder. Olympia Dukakis, an Oscar-winning actress for her role in "Moonstruck," died Saturday in New York City. Follow Cognoscenti on Facebook and Twitter. Interestingly, it was her scene-stealing work on Broadway in the comedy "Social Security" (1986) that caught director Norman Jewison's eye and earned her the Moonstruck (1987) movie role. 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. 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. In 1962 she married the actor Louis Zorich, and they were the artistic inspiration behind the Whole Theatre in Monclair, New Jersey (1973-1990), adapting plays for the company and directing dinner theatre there and at summer festivals elsewhere in the US. She hopscotched from one ethnicity to the next: Italian in Moonstruck, Southern aristocrat in Steel Magnolias, Jewish in films like The Cemetery Club. But that was because of the universal language of which Dukakis was the grandmaster. From 1989, she was publicly outspoken about this and produced improvised stage performances based on the movement's myths. May 1, 2021, 04:36 PM EDT | Updated May 3, 2021. '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. A member of, SAG-AFTRA and AEA, a true artist at heart, her love for performing on-screen ismatched. The Oscar-winning actressOlympia Dukakis has died at the age of 89, according to the Hollywood Reporter. [4][1] She had a brother named Apollo, six years her junior. Olympia Dukakis (June 20, 1931 May 1, 2021) was an American actress. [20][21] In another genre entirely, she provided the voice of Grandpa's love interest for The Simpsons episode "The Old Man and the Key" (2002). All Rights Reserved. She was 89. 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. Before we talked about her lifeunder Hollywood's glare, we talked about her life under the street lamps of Lowell. Dukakis is survived by her three children,Christina, Peter and Stefan. 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. The Oscar-winning actress Olympia Dukakis has died at the age of 89, according to the Hollywood Reporter. As a producer, Mr. Ganis found box office success withBig Daddy,Deuce Bigalow,Mr. [29] In 2013, she starred in and executive-produced the 2013 film Montana Amazon, co-starring Haley Joel Osment. Her agent, Allison Levy, also confirmed her death to CNN. 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. Since graduating from the New York Film Academy in 2011, she collaborated with numerous filmmakers in New York City for short films, web-series, documentary, and feature films. The Crown star opens up about queerness. "I never told my parents, but by the time I turned 11, I carried a knife with me everywhere I went.. In Norman Jewisons Moonstruck, a modern fairytale of love, with each leading character destined to have his or her moment of glory, Dukakis is by turns warm, humorous and cynical, and poignantly wonders why men (especially her husband) are unfaithful. 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. kitchen in 1989. I had a chip on my shoulder so big it was like a tree, she mused. The Academy Award win for Best Supporting Actress was the last of a stream of awards she earned for that part, including the Los Angeles Film Critics, Golden Globe and American Comedy awards.From then on, silver-haired Olympia was frequently first in line for a number of cream-of-the-crop matron roles: Steel Magnolias (1989), Dad (1989), Look Who's Talking (1989), The Cemetery Club (1993), Mr. Holland's Opus (1995) and Mother (1995).On TV, she received high praise for her work especially for her sympathetic trans-gendered landlady Anna Madrigal in the acclaimed miniseries Tales of the City (1993) and its sequels More Tales of the City (1998) (Emmy Nominee) and Further Tales of the City (2001). Olympia Dukakis and Cher hold the Golden Globes they won in January 1988 for their performances in "Moonstruck." Olympia practiced as a physical therapist during the polio epidemic. 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. Olympia Dukakis, theater veteran and Oscar-winning 'Moonstruck' actress, dies at 89. We were unable to subscribe you to WBUR Today. Deeds, and the critically acclaimedAkeelah and the Bee, which he co-produced with his wife Nancy Hult Ganis. [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. Brooke Lefferts. [3], Dukakis appeared in a number of films, including Steel Magnolias, Mr. Holland's Opus, Jane Austen's Mafia!, The Thing About My Folks and Moonstruck, for which she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. A fourth version, Armistead Maupins Tales of the City, was streamed on Netflix in 2019. 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. 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. Her brother, Apollo, confirmed the news in a Facebook post. [5] She contended with pressures within her patriarchal Greek family and around her, "in a neighborhood where ethnic discrimination, particularly against Greeks, was routine. She was seen again at Shakespeare & Co. in the summer of 2013 as the title role in "Mother Courage and Her Children. 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