: Olympia Dukakis, who won an Oscar for her performance as a sardonic, middle-aged mother who advises her headstrong daughter on matters of love in the 1987 romantic film comedyDukakis - a cousin of unsuccessful 1988 Democratic US presidential nominee Michael Dukakis - passed away at her New York City home on Saturday morning after months of failing health, according to her agent, Allison Levy. Her daughter, Christina Zorich, was by her side.
Olympia Dukakis and Cher pictured after their Golden Globe wins in 1988, for performances in Moonstruck.as Rose Castorini, a Brooklyn woman with a cheating plumber husband and a widowed bookkeeper daughter, Loretta , who has an affair with her fiance’s opera-buff brother . “Olympia Dukakis Was An Amazing, Academy Award Winning Actress,” actress and singer Cher wrote on Twitter. “... I talked to her 3Wks Ago. Rip Dear One.”
In accepting her Oscar as best supporting actress in April 1988, when her cousin was battling to become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, she thanked Jewison, her husband and a few others.She then raised the golden statuette over her head and shouted to the worldwide TV audience, “OK, Michael, let’s go”.
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