Olympia Dukakis is a renowned stage, film and television actress, director,
producer, teacher, activist and author (best-selling memoir, Ask Me
Again Tomorrow). She has appeared in hundreds of movies and television
shows, receiving an Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actress category,
the New York Film Critics Award, the Los Angeles Film Critics
Award, and the Golden Globe Award for her work in the Norman Jewison
film Moonstruck. Other movie credits include Away From Her, Steel
Magnolias, Tales of the City, Dad, and Picture Perfect. She has also performed
in well over one hundred stage roles, received Obie, Drama Desk,
Lost Angeles Drama Critics Circle, and Outer Circle awards, and has
taught acting at New York University and Yale. Of her most recent works,
she is the executive producer and co-star, with Haley Joel Osment, in
Montana Amazon, scheduled for release in 2009.
