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Did Olympia Dukakis have children?

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Along with fellow Manhattan stage actor Louis Zorich, she has three children, Christina Zorich, Stefan Zorich and Peter Zorich. She also had four grandchildren.

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Olympia Dukakis was an American actress who performed in over 130 stage productions, over 60 films and 50 television series.

Olympia Dukakis was born on June 20, 1931, in Lowell, Massachusetts, United States. Olympia Dukakis’s parents were Greek immigrants.

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Olympia Dukakis won an Obie Award for Best Actress in 1963 for her off-Broadway performance in Bertolt Brecht’s Man Equals Man.

Olympia Dukakis began her career working in 1961 in productions at the Williamstown Summer Theater, in Massachusetts.

After moving to film acting, Olympia Dukakis won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for her performance in Moonstruck (1987).

Olympia Dukakis’ autobiography, Ask Me Again Tomorrow: A Life in Progress, was published in 2003.

A feature-length documentary of Olympia Dukakis her life, titled Olympia, was released theatrically in the United States in 2018. Olympia Dukakis died under hospice care at her home in Manhattan on May 1, 2021, at 89.


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