Olympia Dukakis, Oscar-Winning Moonstruck Actress, Dead at 89 After 'Many Months of Failing Health'

Olympia Dukakis, Oscar-Winning Moonstruck Actress, Dead at 89 After 'Many Months of Failing Health'
People
5/1/2021
Olympia Dukakis, the actress best known for her role in the 1987 film
Moonstruck, has died. She was 89.
Her brother, Apollo, announced the news in a Facebook post on Saturday. He did not share Dukakis' cause of death but noted that she had been ill for some time. 
"My beloved sister, Olympia Dukakis, passed away this morning in New York City. After many months of failing health she is finally at peace and with her Louis," Apollo wrote, citing Dukakis' late husband, Louis Zorich. 
Born in 1931 in Lowell, Massachusetts, the star was the daughter of a Greek-born, American-educated lawyer named Constantine, who died in 1975. Her mother, Alexandra, was also born in Greece and worked in cotton mills in Massachusetts.

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