Olympia Dukakis
Actor
- Working Girl (1988)
- Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver…
- Expertly–made, snappy comedy of ambitious secretary Melanie Griffith's rise to the top.
- Look Who's Talking (1989)
- Dir. Amy Heckerling
Feat. John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Bruce Willis…
- Amiable comedy featuring 'Mickey', the infant that thinks aloud, courtesy of Bruce Willis. He's more than handful for Mom Kirstie Alley and boyfriend…
- Dad (1989)
- Dir. Gary David Goldberg
Feat. Ted Danson, Jack Lemmon, Ethan Hawke…
- Ted Danson returns home to find his father (Jack Lemmon) has physically and emotionally deteriorated.
- Steel Magnolias (1989)
- Dir. Herbert Ross
Feat. Julia Roberts, Dolly Parton, Daryl Hannah…
- Light comedy–come–tearjerker in which six Southern belles congregate at a beauty salon over several years.
- Over the Hill (1991)
- Dir. George Miller
Feat. Olympia Dukakis
- Not getting any younger, inpedendent widow Olympia Dukakis travels to Australia and has the time of her life in the outback. Will win the hearts of…
- Tales of the City (TV Series) (1993)
- Dir. Alastair Reid, Pierre Gang
Feat. Olympia Dukakis, Laura Linney
- A rich, entertaining tele–translation of Armistead Maupin's lauded short–stories set in 1976 San Fransisco, that cleverly interweaves the…
- Cemetery Club, The (1993)
- Dir. Bill Duke
Feat. Ellen Burstyn, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello…
- Three Jewish widows in their 60s re–enter the dating game in this light but generally well–regarded comedy. All the cast put in…
- More Tales of the City (TV Series) (1996)
- Feat. Olympia Dukakis, Laura Linney, Colin Ferguson…
- The second series of the much–loved TV show set among the varied folk of San Francisco.
- Mafia! (Jane Austen's Mafia) (1998)
- Dir. Jim Abrahams
Feat. Lloyd Bridges, Christina Applegate, Olympia Dukakis
- Ever the low–brow, dir. Jim Abrahams (NAKED GUN et al) delivers a fair quota of spoofing lowblows to the goodfella genre, assisted by a gang of…
- Last of the Blonde Bombshells, The (2000)
- Dir. Gillies MacKinnon
Feat. Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Leslie Caron…
- Charming light drama about a recently–widowed Judi Dench who decides to revive her saxophone playing, eventually getting the idea to reunite…
- Further Tales of the City (TV Series) (2001)
- Dir. Pierre Gang
Feat. Laura Linney, Olympia Dukakis
- Armistad Maupin’s tales of San Francisco friends, families and lovers continues in its likeable way.
- Event, The (2003)
- Dir. Thom Fitzgerald
Feat. Olympia Dukakis, Don McKellar, Sarah Polley…
- The taboo of assisted suicide is broached in this measured Canadian ensemble drama about an AIDS–afflicted musician (McKellar) who takes his…
- 3 Needles (2005)
- Dir. Thom Fitzgerald
Feat. Chloe Sevigny, Lucy Liu, Stockard Channing…
- Three globally sprawling dramas about the A.I.D.S. crisis set in South Africa, China and Canada. Attempting to replicate the effect TRAFFIC had on…
- Great New Wonderful, The (2005)
- Dir. Danny Leiner
Feat. Olympia Dukakis, Jim Gaffigan, Judy Greer…
- New York City drama centered around five interweaving stories all of which exhibit a distinctive characteristic of a changing society post–911.…
- In the Land of Women (2007)
- Dir. Jon Kasdan
Feat. Olympia Dukakis, Meg Ryan, Kristen Stewart…
- Relationship drama centering on struggling writer Adam Brody (THE OC) and the neighbouring family of women he encounters when he moves in with his…
- Away From Her (2007)
- Dir. Sarah Polley
Feat. Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent, Olympia Dukakis
- Julie Christie stars in this carefully observed drama about a woman with Alzheimer's, her husband, and the tragedy of the disease's 'long goodbye',…
- Cloudburst (2011)
- Dir. Thom Fitzgerald
Feat. Olympia Dukakis, Brenda Fricker, Ryan Doucette
- A longtime lesbian couple hit the road for Canada so they can legally marry in this moving road movie.
- 7 Chinese Brothers (2015)
- Dir. Bob Byington
Feat. Jason Schwartzman, Stephen Root, Olympia Dukakis…
- Quirky comedy in which Jason Schwartzman essays another misanthropic slacker who lands a job at a garage where he becomes smitten with his new boss.
- Infiltrator, The (2016)
- Dir. Brad Furman
Feat. Bryan Cranston, John Leguizamo, Diane Kruger…
- Efficient thriller with Bryan Cranston going deep undercover as he attempts to reveal the inner–workings of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar's…