Olympia Dukakis had racked up hundreds of credits on stage in a thirty year career before becoming an "overnight success" as Cher's knowing mother in Norman Jewison's "Moonstruck" (1987).
The daughter of Greek immigrants, the Massachusetts native received two degrees from Boston University and supported herself as a physical therapist while amassing the first of… See Full Olympia Dukakis Biography
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