Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis died on May 1 at 89 years old Glenn Garner is a form writer-reporter who worked heavily with PEOPLE's Movies and TV verticals. He left PEOPLE in 2023.

Olympia Dukakis gave one of her most beloved performances as Clairee Belcher in the 1989 classic Steel Magnolias, alongside Sally Field and Dolly Parton Glenn Garner is a form writer-reporter who ...

Dukakis was born and raised in the Boston, Massachusetts area and earned her Master of Fine Arts degree at Boston University. She moved to New York and found her way into the theatre world, with ...

We forget how people say things, exactly. We forget, even if we remember who said “Your life’s going down the toilet!” Olympia Dukakis said it in “Moonstruck.” She won the Academy Award for best ...

May 2 (UPI) --Singer and actress Cher is mourning the death of Olympia Dukakis, who played her mother in the classic 1987 romantic comedy, Moonstruck. "Olympia Dukakis Was an Amazing, Academy Award ...

Oscar-winning actress Olympia Dukakis, whose deadpan turn as Cher’s Italian mother in the movie smash “Moonstruck” boosted the theater veteran to sudden Hollywood stardom, died Saturday morning in New ...

MAPLEWOOD, N.J. (AP) — Olympia Dukakis, the veteran stage and screen actress whose flair for maternal roles helped her win an Oscar as Cher’s mother in the romantic comedy “Moonstruck,” has died. She ...

The classic movie Steel Magnolias brought together some of Hollywood‘s most recognizable actors and has since become a beloved story with beloved characters. Many of the movie’s stars continued to ...

Call it a Hollywood twist, something straight out of the movies: Oscar winner Olympia Dukakis didn’t become a bonafide movie star until age 56. Bolstered by her best supporting actress win for Norman ...

Olympia Dukakis gave one of the most beloved performances of her storied life as spunky Clairee Belcher in the 1989 classic Steel Magnolias. Parton added, "I really got very close to her and felt like ...

MAPLEWOOD, N.J. (AP) — Olympia Dukakis, the veteran stage and screen actor whose flair for maternal roles helped her win an Oscar as Cher’s mother in the romantic comedy “Moonstruck,” has died. She ...