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Olympia Dukakis
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Helen (Olympia Dukakis) is an elderly widow who lives a quiet but happy life with her friends and her housekeeper Katie (Della Reese). A dark cloud appears when Helen discovers she has cancer. While receiving treatment, Helen meets Jane (Kelly Rowan), an attractive nurse who happens to be single. Before long, Helen is convinced that Jane is the perfect girl for her son Tom (John Stamos), a lawyer who handles a number of divorce cases and as a result is wary of marriage. Neither Jane nor Tom are entirely convinced they'd be an ideal couple, but Helen will not be denied. After a few dates, it looks like Tom and Jane might end up together after all, until Helen's declining health sends Tom on a mild bender that finds him in bed with another woman when Jane stops by to visit.
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For over 20 years, Olympia Dukakis and Leslie Ayvazian have been working with women over 30. developing methods that explore and investigate the information held in the Sumarian myth, the Descent of Innana. They use the poetry of Enheduanna, High Priestess of Innana in about 2300 B.C., to guide participants through a series of acting exercises and improvisations that take them into the heart of the myth. Many of the women who descend into the myth discover voices that their lives have conspired to silence. Finding that lost voice can be invigorating and liberating.
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Olympia Dukakis has worked for more than forty years as an actress, director, producer, teacher, and activist. She received an Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actress, the New York Film Critics Award, the Los Angeles Film Critics Award, and the Golden Globe Award for her work in the film Moonstruck. She has ... won two OBIE Awards and a cable ACE Award. She lectures on women's issues, on living with osteoporosis and other health issues, and on balancing career and family. She lives in New York City with her husband, actor Louis Zorich. They have three children, Christina, Peter, and Stefan, and two granddaughters, Isabella and Sofia.
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Shirley MacLaine and Olympia Dukakis will pair up as stars of Poor Things, a dark comedy directed by Ash Baron Cohen (Sacha Baron Cohen's cousin). The movie, based on real-life reports of elderly women involved in crimes like drug sales, insurance fraud, and murder, will see the actresses playing two cons who befriend and murder homeless men in order to collect their life insurance policies. MacLaine will produce with Rob Hickman through his Still Rolling Prods. Shooting is scheduled to start in May.
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Olympia Dukakis says that "defying definition" has been one of the main themes of her life. Perhaps you think of her as feisty Rose Castorini in the film Moonstruck, the role which earned her an Oscar, or Clairee, the southern widow from Steel Magnolias, or the transsexual landlady, Anna Madrigal, in the PBS series Tales of the City, but this complex woman has played many other roles in her life. She worked as a physical therapist during the polio epidemic of the 1950s, she’s founded several theater companies, and she’s been active as a political campaigner and an advocate for women’s issues. Let’s find out what she’s got in her survival kit.
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The actress Olympia Dukakis won an Oscar in 1987 for playing the sharp-tongued mother in Moonstruck. She co-starred in Steel Magnolias, playing the grandly bemused widow Clairee; and in the PBS series Tales of the City, she brought to life the pot-farming, formerly male landlady Mrs. Madrigal.
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