Dukakis' brother Apolloannounced her death on FacebookSaturday.
“After many months of failing health she is finally at peace and with her Louis.”
(Dukakis' husband Louis Zorich died in 2018.)
Olympia Dukakis in 2015.Mireya Acierto/Getty Images
He cast her inMoonstruckon that performance alone.
Michael Dukakis, was running for the presidency.
She won, he didn’t.
“But once you realize that you are an outsider, there can be a freedom in that.
you could find your own way.”
Or, as Rose Castorini said so memorably inMoonstruck: “I know who I am.”
So did Dukakis herself.
Additional reporting by Lindsay Bahr.
