Olympia Dukakis, Oscar-winning 'Moonstruck' star, dies at 89

Olympia Dukakis portrays Anna Madrigal in the television series'Tales Of The City', 2019.

Dukakis won her Oscar through a surprising chain of circumstances, beginning with author Nora Ephron’s recommendation that she play Meryl Streep’s mother in the film version of Ephron’s book “Heartburn.” Dukakis got the role, but her scenes were cut from the film. To make it up to her, director Mike Nichols cast her in his hit play “Social Security.” Director Norman Jewison saw her in that role and cast her in “Moonstruck.

After a teacher helped cure her stage fright, she began working in summer stock theaters. In 1960, she made her off-Broadway debut and two years later had a small part in “The Aspen Papers” on Broadway. She and Zorich had three children — Christina, Peter and Stefan. They decided it was too hard to raise children in New York with limited income, so they moved the family to a century-old house in Montclair, a New Jersey suburb of New York.

sean_wmur God bless. A wonderful actress.

Zoi se sas to Ms. Dukakis family. Ms. Olympia died on a very high Holy day. Tomorrow is Greek Easter. May her memory be eternal. RIP. Ms. Dukakis also was excellent in a movie starring with JohnStamos called A Match Made In Heaven.

Damn damn damn!

We wish Happy Transition to Ms. OlympiaDukakis. Enjoy your rest. (Oh, past the age of 70, people do not die; they simply take their needed rest.) RIP.

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