Olympia Dukakis

American actress (1931–2021)

Olympia Dukakis

Dukakis in 2019

Born| (1931-06-20)June 20, 1931

Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S.

Died| May 1, 2021(2021-05-01) (aged 89)

New York City, U.S.

Education| Boston University (BA, MFA)
Occupation| Actress
Years active| 1961–2021
Spouse(s)|

Louis Zorich

(m. 1962; died 2018)​

Children| 3
Relatives| Michael Dukakis (cousin)

Olympia Dukakis (June 20, 1931 – May 1, 2021) was an American actress. She performed in more than 130 stage productions, more than 60 films and in 50 television series. Best known as a screen actress, she started her career in theater. Not long after her arrival in New York City, she won an Obie Award for Best Actress in 1963 for her off-Broadway performance in Bertolt Brecht's Man Equals Man.

She later moved to film acting and won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe, among other accolades, for her performance in Moonstruck (1987). She received another Golden Globe nomination for Sinatra (1992) and Emmy Award nominations for Lucky Day (1991), More Tales of the City (1998) and Joan of Arc (1999). Dukakis's autobiography, Ask Me Again Tomorrow: A Life in Progress, was published in 2003.[1] In 2018, a feature-length documentary about her life, titled Olympia, was released theatrically in the United States.[2]

## Contents

* 1 Early life and education
* 2 Career
* 2.1 Stage
* 2.2 Screen
* 3 Personal life
* 3.1 Death
* 4 Filmography
* 4.1 Film
* 4.2 Television
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## Early life and education[edit]

Olympia Dukakis (Greek: Ολυμπία Δουκάκη) was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on June 20, 1931, the daughter of Alexandra "Alec" (née Christos) and Constantine "Costa" S. Dukakis.[3] Her parents were Greek immigrants; her father a refugee from Anatolia and her mother from the Peloponnese.[4][1] She had a brother named Apollo, six years her junior. As a girl, she dominated in sports and was a three-time New England fencing champion.[5] She contended with pressures within her patriarchal Greek family and around her, "in a neighborhood where ethnic discrimination, particularly against Greeks, was routine."[6]

Dukakis was an alumna of Arlington High School in Arlington, Massachusetts,[7] and was educated at Boston University where she majored in physical therapy, earning a BA, which she made use of when treating patients with polio during the height of the epidemic.[8] She later returned to BU and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in performing arts.[9]

## Career[edit]

### Stage[edit]

Prior to her film career, Dukakis began a decades-long stage life working in 1961 in productions at the Williamstown Summer Theater, in the northwestern corner of Massachusetts. Once out of that corner of New England and hitting the pavement of the Great White Way, it didn't take long for her to be recognized for her talent and skill. In 1963, Dukakis' early life Off-Broadway was rewarded with an Obie Award for Distinguished Performance, as Widow Leocadia Begbick in Man Equals Man (a.k.a., A Man's A Man).[10] But her stage work began across the summer of 1961, in productions at the Williamstown Summer Theatre,[11] she continued to perform there every few years, with her last appearance on that stage occurring in 2003, where she played multiple roles in The Chekov Cycle. By 1963, she had begun her career on screen. Transitioning to a professional life centered in New York City, she performed many times in productions in Central Park at the renowned Delacorte Theater. Returning to Western Massachusetts in 2013 for her last stage performance, she played Mother Courage in Mother Courage and Her Children at Shakespeare & Company, in Lenox, Massachusetts.[12]

With her husband, Louis Zorich, and with other acting couples, she co-founded the Whole Theater Company. The company's first play was Our Town, in 1973. With Dukakis serving as artistic director, the theater rolled out five productions per season for almost two decades. Across that span, productions included the works of Euripides, Eugene O'Neill, Samuel Beckett, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and Lanford Wilson. Among the actors performing with Dukakis and her husband were José Ferrer, Colleen Dewhurst, Blythe Danner, and Samuel L. Jackson.[13]

Dukakis' prolific stage directing credits include many of the classics: Orpheus Descending, The House of Bernarda Alba, Uncle Vanya, and A Touch of the Poet, as well as the more contemporary; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Kennedy's Children. She also adapted such plays as "Mother Courage" and The Trojan Women for her Montclair, New Jersey situated theater company. Her Broadway theatre credits include Who's Who in Hell and Social Security. She appeared in Martin Sherman's one-woman play, Rose, entirely a monologue about a woman who survived the Warsaw Ghetto, in London and then on Broadway.[14][15] For the role, she won the 2000 Outer Critics Circle Awards for Outstanding Solo Performance. Twenty-two years after earning her first Obie, she won her second in 1985, a Ensemble Performance Award, for playing Soot Hudlocke in The Marriage of Bette and Boo.[3]

### Screen[edit]

Dukakis at the 1998 Emmy Awards

Dukakis appeared in a number of films, including Steel Magnolias, Mr. Holland's Opus, Jane Austen's Mafia!, The Thing About My Folks and Moonstruck, for which she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. She also played the role of Anna Madrigal in the Tales of the City television mini-series, which garnered her an Emmy Award nomination, and appeared on Search for Tomorrow as Dr. Barbara Moreno (1983), who romanced Stu Bergman. She appeared as Dolly Sinatra in the mini-series of Frank Sinatra's life (1992).[16]

Dukakis at Malaparte for Norman Jewison and Friends with Moonstruck, August 2011

Moonstruck (1987) was directed by Norman Jewison who predicted Dukakis would receive honors for the role.[17] She believed him after receiving the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In addition to her Oscar, she took the Golden Globe in the same category. The honors compounded as she collected the Los Angeles and New York Film Critics Awards, all in recognition of her talent, some acting improvised, as she delivered a serious while hilarious performance.[18] The role of a no-nonsense matriarch, Rose Castorini, plays off Cher's Best Actress Award-winning role as daughter Loretta. She was nominated for the Canadian Academy Award for The Event (2003) and in the middle of the first decade of the 21st century, her roles included 3 Needles, The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines, In the Land of Women, and Away From Her, the 2006 film which cast her alongside Gordon Pinsent as the spouses of two Alzheimer's patients.[19]

She took on powerful roles on the small screen as well. In 1998, she starred as Charlotte Kiszko in the British TV drama A Life for a Life: The True Story of Stefan Kiszko (ITV), based on the actual story of a man wrongfully imprisoned for seventeen years for the murder of a child, Lesley Molseed, after police suppressed evidence of his innocence.[20][21] In another genre entirely, she provided the voice of Grandpa's love interest for The Simpsons episode "The Old Man and the Key" (2002).[22]

In 2008, Dukakis directed the world premiere production of Todd Logan's "Botanic Garden" at Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.[23] That same year she starred in the revival of Tennessee Williams' The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, opposite Kevin Anderson at the Hartford Stage,[24] and co-adapted and starred in the world-premiere of Another Side of the Island, based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest, at Alpine Theatre Project in Whitefish, Montana.[25]

In 2011, Dukakis guest-starred on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She played the role of Debby Marsh, an attorney.[26] In 2013, she starred in and executive-produced the 2013 film Montana Amazon, co-starring Haley Joel Osment.[27] That same year, on May 24, she was honored with the 2,498th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[28]

In 2018, Dukakis starred in Eleftheromania, which follows an Auschwitz survivor as she recites a true story about a group from the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.[29] The following year, Dukakis reprised the role of Anna Madrigal, which she had first played in 1993, in a Netflix update of Armistead Maupin's Tales of The City.[30][31]

Dukakis rides up Market Street as one of the Celebrity Grand Marshals in the LGBT Pride Parade in San Francisco on June 26, 2011, from the film, Olympia.

In 2018, Olympia, an American documentary film about her life and career, had its festival premiere at DOC NYC. The film, directed by Harry Mavromichalis, features Whoopi Goldberg, Laura Linney, Ed Asner, Lainie Kazan, Armistead Maupin, Austin Pendleton, Diane Ladd and Dukakis' cousin, Governor Michael Dukakis.[32] It was released theatrically in the United States in July 2020.[33]

Dukakis' final performance is as a judge in the 2021 film Not to Forget.[34]

## Personal life[edit]

The theatrical poster of the film Olympia, directed by Harry Mavromichalis, documenting Dukakis's career

In 1962, Dukakis married fellow Manhattan stage actor Louis Zorich.[35] Planning for a family, they moved out of the city in 1970 to settle in Montclair, New Jersey.[36] It was there they raised their three children: Christina, Peter and Stefan. They had four grandchildren.[37]

In her 2003 autobiography, Ask Me Again Tomorrow: A Life in Progress, Dukakis describes the challenges she faced as a first-generation Greek-American in an area with anti-Greek ethnic bigotry, violence and discrimination; difficulties with her mother and in other relationships; and battles with substances and chronic illness.[38] Her life off the screen and stage was very active. She taught acting for 15 years at NYU[39] and gave master classes for professional theatre universities, colleges and companies across the country.[38] She received the National Arts Club Medal of Honor.[28]

Dukakis became an adherent of Goddess worship, a feminist form of modern Paganism, during a production of The Trojan Women in 1982. From 1989, she was publicly outspoken about this and produced improvised stage performances based on the movement's myths.[40] For 10 years, beginning in 1985, she studied with Indian mentor Srimata Gayatri Devi in the Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy.[41] A strong advocate for women's rights and LGBT rights, including same-sex marriage, Dukakis embraced the roles of a trans landlady in Tales of the City,[31] and a butch lesbian in Cloudburst.[42] She was a figure on the lecture circuit discussing topics such as women living with chronic illness, life in the theater, the environment, and feminism. She is quoted as having said, "I recognize that the real pulse of life is transformation, yet I work in a world dominated by men and the things men value, where transformation is not the coinage. It's not even the language!"[6][43]

### Death[edit]

After a period of ill health, Dukakis died under hospice care at her home in Manhattan on May 1, 2021, at the age of 89.[9][3]

## Filmography[edit]

### Film[edit]

Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes  | Ref.

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1964  | Twice a Man | Young mother  |  | [44]
Lilith | Patient  | Uncredited  | [45]
1969  | Stiletto | Mrs. Amato  | [46]
John and Mary | John's mother  |  | [44]
1971  | Made for Each Other | Mrs. Panimba  |  | [44]
1973  | Sisters | Louise Wilanski  | Uncredited  | [47]
1974  | Death Wish | Officer Gemetti  | Listed in opening credits only  | [44]
The Rehearsal |  |  | [44]
1979  | The Wanderers | Mrs. Capra  |  | [44]
Rich Kids | Bea  |  | [48]
1980  | The Idolmaker | Mrs. Vacarri  |  | [44]
1982  | National Lampoon Goes to the Movies | Helena Naxos  | Segment: "Success Wanters"  | [49]
1985  | Walls of Glass | Mary Flanagan  |  | [50]
1987  | Moonstruck | Rose Castorini  | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Female Performer – Motion Picture or TV
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Nominated – New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress | [51]
1988  | Working Girl | Ruth  |  | [48]
1989  | Look Who's Talking | Rosie  |  | [44]
Steel Magnolias | Clairee Belcher  | Nominated – American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture | [51]
Dad | Bette Tremont  |  | [9]
1990  | In the Spirit | Sue  |  | [49]
Look Who's Talking Too | Rosie  |  | [44]
1992  | Over the Hill | Alma Harris  |  | [49]
1993  | The Cemetery Club | Doris Silverman  |  | [44]
Digger | Bea  |  | [49]
Look Who's Talking Now | Rosie  |  | [48]
1994  | Dead Badge | Dr. Doris Rice  |  | [49]
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult | Herself  | Uncredited  | [48]
I Love Trouble | Jeannie  |  | [50]
1995  | Jeffrey | Mrs. Marcangelo  |  | [44]
Mighty Aphrodite | Jocasta |  | [44]
Mr. Holland's Opus | Principal Helen Jacobs  |  | [44]
1996  | Mother | Mrs. Jay  |  | [49]
Jerusalem | Mrs. Gordon  |  | [44]
Milk & Money | Goneril Plogg  |  | [49]
1997  | Balkan Island: The Last Story of the Century | Mother  |  |
Picture Perfect | Rita Mosley  |  | [49]
1998  | Mafia! | Sophia Cortino  |  | [49]
Better Living | Nora  |  | [52]
2000  | Brooklyn Sonnet | Helen Manners  |  | [53]
2002  | The Intended | Erina  |  | [54]
2003  | The Event | Lila  | Grand Jury Award for Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film
Nominated – Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role | [52]
Charlie's War | Charlie  |  | [55]
2005  | The Great New Wonderful | Judy Hillerman  | Segment: "Judy's Story"  | [44]
The Thing About My Folks | Muriel Kleinman  |  | [44]
3 Needles | Hilde  |  | [48]
Whiskey School | Ellen Haywood  |  | [48]
Jesus, Mary and Joey | Sophia Vitello  |  | [48]
2006  | Away from Her | Marian  |  | [44]
Day on Fire | Dr. Mary Wade  |  | [56]
Upside Out | Dr. Walker  |  |
2007  | In the Land of Women | Phyllis  |  | [44]
2011  | Cloudburst | Stella  | Nominated – Seattle International Film Festival Award for Best Actress | [44]
Outliving Emily | Emily Hanratty  | Short film  | [57]
2013  | Montana Amazon | Ira Dunderhead  | Also executive producer  | [27]
The Last Keepers | Rosmarie Carver  |  | [50]
A Little Game | YaYa  |  | [50]
2015  | 7 Chinese Brothers | Grandma  |  | [58]
Emily & Tim | Emily  | Segment: "6" or "Attachment"  | [57]
2016  | The Infiltrator | Aunt Vicky  |  | [48]
Broken Links | Arlene  |  | [59]
2018  | Change in the Air | Margaret Lemke  |  | [50]
Olympia | Herself  | DOC NYC, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival  | [60]
2021  | Not to Forget | Judge  | Final film role  | [50]

### Television[edit]

Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes  | Ref.

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1962  | The Nurses | Ioana Chiriac  | Episode: "Frieda"  | [44]
Dr. Kildare | Anna Nieves  | Episode: "The Legacy"  | [44]
1974  | Nicky's World | Irene Kaminios  | Television film  | [61]
1975  | Great Performances | Pauline  | Episode: "The Seagull"  | [44]
1977  | The Andros Targets | Marina Angelis  | Episode: "The Beast of Athens"
1978  | The Doctors | Mrs. Martin
1980  | FDR: The Final Years |  | Television film  |
Breaking Away |  | Episode: "The Cutters"  | [62]
1982  | American Playhouse | Mama Nicola  | Episode: "King of America"  | [62]
One of the Boys | Professor  | Episode: "His Cheatin' Heart"  | [50]
The Neighborhood | Mrs. St. Paul  | Television film  | [49]
1983  | Search for Tomorrow | Dr. Barbara Moreno  |  | [48]
1986  | The Equalizer | Judge Paula G. Walsh  | Episode: "Shades of Darkness"  | [48]
1991  | Lucky Day | Katherine Campbell  | Television film
Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie | [44]
The General Motors Playwrights Theater | Laura Cunningham  | Episode: "The Last Act Is a Solo"  | [53]
Fire in the Dark | Emily Miller  | Television film  | [49]
1992  | Sinatra | Dolly Sinatra | Television miniseries
4 episodes
Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film | [49]
1993  | Tales of the City | Anna Madrigal  | Television miniseries
6 episodes
Nominated – British Academy Television Award for Best Actress | [51]
1995  | Young at Heart | Rose Garaventi  | Television film  | [53]
1996  | Touched by an Angel | Clara  | Episode: "A Joyful Noise"  | [50]
1997  | Heaven Will Wait | Diana  | Television film  | 2
A Match Made in Heaven | Helen Rosner  | [49]
1998  | Scattering Dad | Dotty  |
The Pentagon Wars | Madam Chairwoman  | [50]
More Tales of the City | Anna Madrigal  | Television miniseries
6 episodes
Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film
Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie | [51]
A Life for a Life | Charlotte Kiszko  | Television film  | [54]
1999  | Joan of Arc | Mother Babette  | Television miniseries
3 episodes
Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie | [44]
2000  | The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | Dinah  | Television film  | [44]
2001  | And Never Let Her Go | Marguerite Capano  | [63]
Ladies and the Champ | Sara Stevens  | [64]
Further Tales of the City | Anna Madrigal  | Television miniseries
3 episodes  | [51]
My Beautiful Son | Esther Lipman  | Television film  | [54]
2002  | Guilty Hearts | Amanda Patterson  | Television film  | [53]
The Simpsons | Zelda (voice)  | Episode: "The Old Man and the Key"  | [44]
Frasier | Caller #3 (voice)  | Episode: "Frasier Has Spokane"  | [44]
2003  | Mafia Doctor | Rose  | Television film  |
It's All Relative | Coleen O'Neil  | Episode: "Thanks, But No Thanks"  |
2004  | The Librarian: Quest for the Spear | Margie Carsen  | Television film  | [65]
2004–2005  | Center of the Universe | Marge Barnett  | 12 episodes  | [44]
2006  | Numbers | Charlotte Yates  | Episode: "Hot Shot"  | [44]
The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines | Margie Carsen  | Television film  | [65]
2008  | Worst Week | June  | Episodes: "The Ring", "The Wedding"  | [66]
2010–2011  | Bored to Death | Belinda  | 4 episodes  | [44]
2011  | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Debby Marsh  | Episode: "Pop"  | [44]
2013  | The Christmas Spirit | Gwen Hollander  | Television film  | [67]
Mike & Molly | Narrator on TV  | Episode: "The Princess and the Troll"  | [68]
2013–2015  | Sex & Violence | Alex Mandalakis  | Television miniseries
Also executive producer
12 episodes  | [55]
Forgive Me | Novalea  | 9 episodes  | [9]
2014  | F to 7th | Marie  | Episode: "Down to Zero"  | [69]
Big Driver | Doreen  | Television film  | [70]
2016  | TripTank | Ma / Caller (voice)  | 4 episodes  | [55]
2019  | Tales of the City | Anna Madrigal  | Main cast  | [51]

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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

1936–1950|

* Gale Sondergaard (1936)
* Alice Brady (1937)
* Fay Bainter (1938)
* Hattie McDaniel (1939)
* Jane Darwell (1940)
* Mary Astor (1941)
* Teresa Wright (1942)
* Katina Paxinou (1943)
* Ethel Barrymore (1944)
* Anne Revere (1945)
* Anne Baxter (1946)
* Celeste Holm (1947)
* Claire Trevor (1948)
* Mercedes McCambridge (1949)
* Josephine Hull (1950)

1951–1975|

* Kim Hunter (1951)
* Gloria Grahame (1952)
* Donna Reed (1953)
* Eva Marie Saint (1954)
* Jo Van Fleet (1955)
* Dorothy Malone (1956)
* Miyoshi Umeki (1957)
* Wendy Hiller (1958)
* Shelley Winters (1959)
* Shirley Jones (1960)
* Rita Moreno (1961)
* Patty Duke (1962)
* Margaret Rutherford (1963)
* Lila Kedrova (1964)
* Shelley Winters (1965)
* Sandy Dennis (1966)
* Estelle Parsons (1967)
* Ruth Gordon (1968)
* Goldie Hawn (1969)
* Helen Hayes (1970)
* Cloris Leachman (1971)
* Eileen Heckart (1972)
* Tatum O'Neal (1973)
* Ingrid Bergman (1974)
* Lee Grant (1975)

1976–2000|

* Beatrice Straight (1976)
* Vanessa Redgrave (1977)
* Maggie Smith (1978)
* Meryl Streep (1979)
* Mary Steenburgen (1980)
* Maureen Stapleton (1981)
* Jessica Lange (1982)
* Linda Hunt (1983)
* Peggy Ashcroft (1984)
* Anjelica Huston (1985)
* Dianne Wiest (1986)
* Olympia Dukakis (1987)
* Geena Davis (1988)
* Brenda Fricker (1989)
* Whoopi Goldberg (1990)
* Mercedes Ruehl (1991)
* Marisa Tomei (1992)
* Anna Paquin (1993)
* Dianne Wiest (1994)
* Mira Sorvino (1995)
* Juliette Binoche (1996)
* Kim Basinger (1997)
* Judi Dench (1998)
* Angelina Jolie (1999)
* Marcia Gay Harden (2000)

2001–present|

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Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture

1943–1975|

* Katina Paxinou (1943)
* Agnes Moorehead (1944)
* Angela Lansbury (1945)
* Anne Baxter (1946)
* Celeste Holm (1947)
* Ellen Corby (1948)
* Mercedes McCambridge (1949)
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* Kim Hunter (1951)
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* Grace Kelly (1953)
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* Susan Kohner (1959)
* Janet Leigh (1960)
* Rita Moreno (1961)
* Angela Lansbury (1962)
* Margaret Rutherford (1963)
* Agnes Moorehead (1964)
* Ruth Gordon (1965)
* Jocelyne LaGarde (1966)
* Carol Channing (1967)
* Ruth Gordon (1968)
* Goldie Hawn (1969)
* Karen Black / Maureen Stapleton (1970)
* Ann-Margret (1971)
* Shelley Winters (1972)
* Linda Blair (1973)
* Karen Black (1974)
* Brenda Vaccaro (1975)

1976–2000|

* Katharine Ross (1976)
* Vanessa Redgrave (1977)
* Dyan Cannon (1978)
* Meryl Streep (1979)
* Mary Steenburgen (1980)
* Joan Hackett (1981)
* Jessica Lange (1982)
* Cher (1983)
* Peggy Ashcroft (1984)
* Meg Tilly (1985)
* Maggie Smith (1986)
* Olympia Dukakis (1987)
* Sigourney Weaver (1988)
* Julia Roberts (1989)
* Whoopi Goldberg (1990)
* Mercedes Ruehl (1991)
* Joan Plowright (1992)
* Winona Ryder (1993)
* Dianne Wiest (1994)
* Mira Sorvino (1995)
* Lauren Bacall (1996)
* Kim Basinger (1997)
* Lynn Redgrave (1998)
* Angelina Jolie (1999)
* Kate Hudson (2000)

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Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress

* Vanessa Redgrave (1977)
* Maureen Stapleton / Mona Washbourne (1978)
* Meryl Streep (1979)
* Mary Steenburgen (1980)
* Maureen Stapleton (1981)
* Glenn Close (1982)
* Linda Hunt (1983)
* Peggy Ashcroft (1984)
* Anjelica Huston (1985)
* Cathy Tyson / Dianne Wiest (1986)
* Olympia Dukakis (1987)
* Geneviève Bujold (1988)
* Brenda Fricker (1989)
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* Lily Gladstone (2016)
* Laurie Metcalf (2017)
* Regina King (2018)
* Jennifer Lopez (2019)
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National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress

* Nina Foch (1954)
* Marjorie Rambeau (1955)
* Debbie Reynolds (1956)
* Sybil Thorndike (1957)
* Kay Walsh (1958)
* Edith Evans (1959)
* Shirley Jones (1960)
* Ruby Dee (1961)
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* Margaret Rutherford (1963)
* Edith Evans (1964)
* Joan Blondell (1965)
* Vivien Merchant (1966)
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* Marisa Berenson (1972)
* Sylvia Sidney (1973)
* Valerie Perrine (1974)
* Ronee Blakley (1975)
* Talia Shire (1976)
* Diane Keaton (1977)
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* Meryl Streep (1979)
* Eva Le Gallienne (1980)
* Mona Washbourne (1981)
* Glenn Close (1982)
* Linda Hunt (1983)
* Sabine Azéma (1984)
* Anjelica Huston (1985)
* Dianne Wiest (1986)
* Olympia Dukakis (1987)
* Frances McDormand (1988)
* Mary Stuart Masterson (1989)
* Winona Ryder (1990)
* Kate Nelligan (1991)
* Judy Davis (1992)
* Winona Ryder (1993)
* Rosemary Harris (1994)
* Mira Sorvino (1995)
* Juliette Binoche / Kristin Scott Thomas (1996)
* Anne Heche (1997)
* Christina Ricci (1998)
* Julianne Moore (1999)
* Lupe Ontiveros (2000)
* Cate Blanchett (2001)
* Kathy Bates (2002)
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