Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role 1988
Olympia Dukakis Moonstruck 1988
SEX WORKER ROLE
Loë Rieman in The Singing Forest 2009
Character Is A Phone Sex Operator
Olympia Dukakis in The Singing Forest 2009
“The Singing Forest” is a play by Craig Lucas (not to be confused with the film of the same name). The plotline is so convoluted and confusing; it would take too long to explain here. What I can say is that Dukakis plays Loë, a Jewish phone sex operator. During World War II, her character fled Austria and came to America. But before she escaped, Loë sets off a chain of events that would come back to haunt her in the present day.
The New York Times wrote of Olympia’s performance:
“Ms. Dukakis’s Loë is a dryly funny portrait of a troubled woman who ignores her glaring psychic flaws by immersing herself in other people’s.”
Jonathan Groff and Olympia Dukakis in The Singing Forest 2009
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