Oscar-winning actress Olympia Dukakis died at the age of 89 at her home in New York City on Saturday morning.
Allison Levy, her agent at Innovative Artists, confirmed Dukakis’s death on Saturday. A cause of death was not immediately released.
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Dukakis, a veteran of stage and screen for decades, was born in Massachusetts on June 20, 1931. She portrayed maternal roles in films throughout the 1980s and 1990s, including in Steel Magnolias, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Jane Austen’s Mafia!, and The Thing About My Folks.
In 1988, she won an Oscar for best supporting actress for her role as Rose Castorini in Moonstruck alongside Cher, who played her daughter. Dukakis called 1988 “the year of the Dukakii” due to her cousin, Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, becoming the Democratic nominee for president. At the ceremony, she held her Oscar high over her head and said, “OK, Michael, let’s go!”
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She married Louis Zorich, a fellow actor known for portraying Burt Buchman on Mad About You, in 1962, and they had three children and three grandchildren together. Zorich died in 2018.
