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Riding high in her golden years
By Jacqueline Spendlove
TV Media
The majestically-named
Olympia Dukakis has a long and
respected career behind her, but
it wasn’t until she was well into
her 50s that she became a house-
hold name. That was thanks to
“Moonstruck,” the 1987 romcom
starring Cher and Nicolas Cage.
Dukakis played the delightfully
acerbic mother of Cher’s lead
character, Italian-American
widow Loretta Castorini, and
took home the Academy Award
and the Golden Globe for Best
Supporting Actress for her per-
formance. The daughter of Greek
immigrants, Dukakis graduated
from Boston University with a
degree in physical therapy, which
would serve her well during the
polio epidemic in the ‘50s. She
later returned to BU to earn her
Master of Fine Arts. Though Du-
kakis was little known among the
movie-going crowd before hit-
ting the silver screen in “Moon-
struck,” she had been making a
Olympia Dukakis in “Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City”
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name for herself on the stage for
nearly 30 years. She appeared
in Off-Broadway productions of
Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry
Orchard,” Bertolt Brecht’s “Man
Equals Man” and many more,
and has proven herself a prolific
theatrical director to boot. It was
her scene-stealing performance
in “Social Security” on Broadway
in 1986 that caught director Nor-
man Jewison’s eye, which led to
her being cast in “Moonstruck”
and making her way into the
hearts of the masses. Though she
had had a few smaller screen
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roles before “Moonstruck,” it
was that film that really propelled
her into a new chapter of her
career, and at an age where many
actresses find the work starting
to dry up. A consummate mother
character who can pull off a num-
ber of ethnicities, Dukakis went
on to appear in many major films
with big-name casts, such as
“Steel Magnolias” (1989), “Look
Who’s Talking” (1989) and its
sequels, “The Mighty Aphrodite”
(1995) and “Mr. Holland’s Opus”
(1995), among many others. Nor
has her career slowed down in
her golden years — Dukakis
has appeared in 10 films in the
past decade, along with a slew
of television roles. She was
lauded for her portrayal of Anna
Madrigal, the transgendered
landlady in the acclaimed 1993
PBS miniseries “Tales of the City,”
based on the series of novels by
Armistead Maupin. She reprised
the role in two sequels, miniseries
in 1998 and 2001, respectively,
along with co-stars Laura Linney,
Paul Gross and Barbara Garrick.
You can watch her now in all her
glory in the latest installment,
“Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the
City,” which premieres Friday,
June 7, on Netflix.
FACTS:
- Born June 20, 1931, in Low-
ell, Massachusetts (age 87)
- Excelled at fencing in high
school
- Her “Moonstruck” Oscar
was stolen from her house in
1989 (she bought a replace-
ment from the Academy for
$78)
- Has taught acting at univer-
sities around the world
- Her cousin is Michael Du-
kakis, former governor of Mas-
sachusetts and the 1988 Demo-
cratic presidential nominee
- Was married to actor Louis
Zorich (“Mad About You”) for
56 years, until his death in 2018
- She and Zorich founded
the Whole Theatre Company in
Montclair, New Jersey, and ran
it together for 19 years
QUOTES:
“Most of us are not real
eager to grow, myself included.
We try to be happy by staying
in the status quo. But if we’re
not willing to be honest with
ourselves about what we feel,
we don’t evolve.”
“Winning is everything in
Hollywood.”
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