American actress Olympia Dukakis appealed the Belarusians and the world community as part of a campaign of solidarity with Belarus.
Olympia Dukakis (born in 1931) as an American theatre and film actress.
She started her career as a film actress in the mid 1960-s. in the beginning, she had small roles in such movies as Lilith, John and Mary, Sisters. She gained popularity in 1987 after a film Moonstruck. For her role in the film, she won three most valuable awards in the American movie industry, Oscar, Golden Globe, and BAFTA.
Olympia Dukakis worked with such actors as Peter O'Toole, Maximilian Schell, Meg Ryan, Jacqueline Bisset, Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts, Nick Nolte, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Falk, etc.
She had roles in such films as I Love Troubles, Steel Magnolias, In the Spirit, In the Land of Women. Dukakis played herself in The Naked Gun 33 1/3 comedy film.
Olympia Dukakis actively worked at theatre stage. Her on Broadway include Who's Who in Hell, Social Security, and Rose. Her theater work won her an Obie Award a Drama Desk Award. She also actively cooperated with television. Her most famous role on TV was Mother Babette in Joan of Arc miniseries.
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