I was so excited I could scarcely breathe. Anthoulais thrilled to be an executive producer ofOlympia, a film about herinspiringmentor. Get a first look at Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana in 'The Crown' . The Oscar-winning actress Olympia Dukakis has died at the age of 89, according to the Hollywood Reporter. 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. 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, Tales of the City: 20th Anniversary Collection. With Dukakis serving as artistic director, the theater rolled out five productions per season for almost two decades. 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Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. In addition to her Oscar, she took the Golden Globe in the same category. 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. "My beloved sister, Olympia Dukakis, passed away this morning in New York City," he wrote. Harry curated the first LGBTQ Film Festival and was one of the key organizers of the 1st Pride Parade in Cyprus. She and her late husband shared three children - Christina, Peter, and Stefan. Kelly is an actor, writer, and producer whose latest award-winning short film, Touchscreen, is an official selection of the Cleveland International Film Festival, Florida Film Festival and Woods Hole Film Festival, among others. 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. Winning the Oscar led inevitably to more recognition, though not necessarily bigger parts. Did you encounter any technical issues? 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. 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. "It was to play the great parts.". 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. Best known as a screen actress, she started her career in theater. Anthoula Katsimatides is an actor, writer, producer, and voice-over artist. The burglar left only her nameplate. The course of her career suggests that her ambitions never lay in the direction of Hollywood. Her brother, Apollo, confirmed the news in a Facebook post. You can try. Anthoula Katsimatides is an actor, writer, producer, and voice-over artist. All Rights Reserved. In 2003, Dukakis published her autobiography, Ask Me Again Tomorrow: A Life in Progress, in which she wrote of her support of feminism and environmental causes, and her support for the Democratic party, with candour and humour. Dukakis introduced her cousin at the 1988 Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, and also served as a delegate-at-large. The Heartbreaking Death Of Olympia Dukakis. (Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images) Olympia Dukakis, the Emmy- and Academy Award-winning actress hailed for her landmark portrayal of the transgender Anna Madrigal in Tales of the City, died on. All Rights Reserved. Louis died in 2018, and she is survived by their three children, Christina, Stefan and Peter, four grandchildren and her brother, Apollo. Deeds, and the critically acclaimedAkeelah and the Bee, which he co-produced with his wife Nancy Hult Ganis. 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. Among the actors performing with Dukakis and her husband were Jos Ferrer, Colleen Dewhurst, Blythe Danner, and Samuel L. Dukakis. 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). Olympia Dukakis, an Oscar-winning actress for her role in Moonstruck, died Saturday in New York City. Her surname is well-known to my fellow Bostonians. Stella, the butch lesbian of 2011s "Cloudburst," noted as much for its off-color script as for its tender love story. 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. Her family home was located in The Acre, the largely Greek section of town. She was bestowed the National Arts Club Medal of Honor and her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was placed in 2013. 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Her agent, Allison Levy, also confirmed her death to CNN. It's not even the language! As actress, director, producer and teacher, she still found the time to raise their three young children. She later moved to film acting and won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe, among other accolades, for her performance in Moonstruck (1987). 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. Olympia Dukakis, star of film and Broadway, is remembered after her death at 89 02:11. 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. Movie (and TV) fans then discovered what East coast theater-going audiences had uncovered decades before -- Olympia Dukakis was an acting treasure. Susan Dey - The Partridge Family. "My ambition wasn't to win the Oscar. 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. Has To Travel (2011), Woody Allen: A Documentary (2012), and most recently Jane Fonda in Five Acts (2018). She was 89. 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