Olympia Dukakis
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. In 2018, a feature-length documentary about her life, titled Olympia, was released theatrically in the United States.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 8.282 |
| Birthday | 1931-06-20 |
| Place of Birth | Lowell, Massachusetts, USA |
| Also Known As |
2005
The Great New Wonderful
4.867/15
The Great New Wonderful weaves five stories against the backdrop of an anxious and uncertain post-9-11 New York City.
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The Great New Wonderful
2005
Whiskey School
0/0
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Whiskey School
2006
Day On Fire
5/1
The lives of a Palestinian journalist and a Jewish model become inextricably, and shockingly, intertwined after they meet by accident in New York.
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Day On Fire
2011
Cloudburst
6.372/43
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Cloudburst
1992
Over the Hill
4.2/4
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Over the Hill
1997
A Match Made in Heaven
6.6/10
A dying widow plays matchmaker to her 32-year-old unmarried son and sets him up with a nurse that she meets.
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A Match Made in Heaven
1991
Fire in the Dark
0/0
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Fire in the Dark
2015
Emily & Tim
6.2/6
The movie is comprised of six vignettes. A look at the tumultuous marriage of Tim and Emily Hanratty over half a century.
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Emily & Tim
2001
Ladies and The Champ
0/0
Two retired women (Olympia Dukakis, Marion Ross) find their lives rejuvenated when they decide to train a street thug (David deLuise) to become a priz...
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Ladies and The Champ
1999
Crimes of Honour
5.2/2
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Crimes of Honour
2015
Irene & Marie
0/0
Olympia Dukakis and Rose Gregorio play Greek-American women in their 70s who create stories to avoid the realities of growing older.
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Irene & Marie
2003
Charlie's War
0/0
Charlie's War is the story of Charlotte Lewis, a woman who is experiencing serious emotional and mental turmoil brought about by nightmares of increas...
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Charlie's War
2018
Olympia
0/0
Follow Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis behind the scenes in this affectionate profile of a stalwart New Yorker and beloved stage and screen treas...
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Olympia
1995
Young at Heart
0/0
A matriarch of three generations born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey, discovers that her recently-deceased husband has lost their bar and home to a...
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Young at Heart
1996
Never Too Late
4/3
Four old friends reunite to investigate the death of a good friend.
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Never Too Late
2020
The New Greek Americans
0/0
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The New Greek Americans
2020
The New Abolitionists
0/0
Filmmaker Christina Zorich follows abolitionists throughout Southeast Asia that have dedicated their lives to rescuing, rehabilitating, preventing and...
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The New Abolitionists
1998
Scattering Dad
10/1
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Scattering Dad
2012
Joe Papp in Five Acts
4.5/2
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Joe Papp in Five Acts
2013
Montana Amazon
7.231/13
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Montana Amazon
2003
The Event
6/12
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The Event
1993
The Cemetery Club
5.5/6
The story of three Pittsburgh widows who meet every year to visit their husband's graves and talk about perspectives in their lives.
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The Cemetery Club
1963
Twice a Man
5.5/11
A reworking of the myth of Hippolytus, in which a chaste youth rejects the incestuous advances of his mother and is saved from death by a caring physi...
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Twice a Man
1990
In the Spirit
4/2
A woman moves back to New York and hires a ditzy New Age woman to redecorate her apartment in this Odd Couple styled comedy. The movie takes a turn as...
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In the Spirit
2013
The Christmas Spirit
5.171/35
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The Christmas Spirit
1993
Digger
6.5/2
A young boy is sent to live with relatives when his parents break up. He befriends a dying boy who has an eerie connection with nature.
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Digger
1998
Better Living
1.5/2
A comedy about families, the elements that bind them together, and about hope in the face of hardship.
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Better Living
2015
7 Chinese Brothers
5.3/40
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7 Chinese Brothers
1991
Lucky Day
7/2
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Lucky Day
1999
Crimes of Honour
5.2/2
Throughout the Islamic world, each year hundreds of women are shot, stabbed, strangled or burned to death by male relatives because they are thought t...
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Crimes of Honour
2002
The Intended
5.6/7
A period drama/thriller about a surveyor and his fiancée who arrive in a remote Malaysian trading post and encounter a closed-fisted ivory trader and...
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The Intended
1995
Mother
5.3/6
Weisser is a young college bound man whose future is threatened when his mother interferes with his love life and a pending scholarship. He also disco...
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Mother
2015
Beneath the Olive Tree
0/0
The departure point for this film is a series of notebooks created during the Greek civil war of 1946-49 and first discovered years later, under an ol...
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Beneath the Olive Tree
2003
Mafia Doctor
4.5/2
Growing up poor on the streets of New Jersey, Frank Siena (Danny Nucci) has little hope of realizing his dream of becoming a doctor. But "fate" has a...
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Mafia Doctor
2005
The Thing About My Folks
6.3/21
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The Thing About My Folks
1974
The Rehearsal
4.8/4
An indictment of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. The film tries to give a reconstruction of the events during the students' uprising in the Ath...
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The Rehearsal
2017
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
6.417/18
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin celebrates one of the world’s most beloved storytellers, following his evolution from a conservative son of the O...
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The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
1974
Nicky's World
0/0
A close-knit Greek-American family, jeopardized when its Manhattan bakery goes up in flames, looks desperately for ways to solve the financial dilemma...
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Nicky's World
2007
Away from Her
6.995/199
A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another m...
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Away from Her
1987
Moonstruck
6.858/811
No sooner does Italian-American widow Loretta accept a marriage proposal from her doltish boyfriend, Johnny, than she finds herself falling for his yo...
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Moonstruck
1995
Mr. Holland's Opus
6.972/370
In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his tru...
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Mr. Holland's Opus
2006
Jesus, Mary and Joey
4.5/6
Twenty-something and aimless, Joey Vitello still lives at home with his colorful Italian-American family when he is reunited with a childhood schoolma...
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Jesus, Mary and Joey
1997
Picture Perfect
5.689/353
A young advertising executive's life becomes increasingly complicated when, in order to impress her boss, she pretends to be engaged to a man she has...
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Picture Perfect
1989
Look Who's Talking
6.274/2133
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Look Who's Talking
2013
The Last Keepers
4.959/37
This romantic fantasy movie is about two people who are the last survivors of an ancient line of goddess worshipers, who sell art at a shop. When thei...
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The Last Keepers
2014
Big Driver
5.746/189
Based on a novella from Stephen King, A famous mystery writer sets out for revenge after a brutal attack.
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Big Driver
2002
Guilty Hearts
4.3/3
Quiet and unassuming church organist Jenny Moran is depressed with her marriage to working-class Matt and leaves him. Jenny begins an affair with the...
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Guilty Hearts
2001
My Beautiful Son
0/0
Drama - A NYC psychiatrist is diagnosed with leukemia - and when he finds out he was adopted, he travels to England in search of his birth mother and...
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My Beautiful Son
1989
Steel Magnolias
7.2/596
A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friends...
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Steel Magnolias
1989
Dad
6.1/84
A busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes...
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Dad
1993
Look Who's Talking Now!
5.357/947
When Samantha LeBon hatches a scheme to spend a romantic Christmas with her new employee -- the unsuspecting, blithesome James -- his wife, their kids...
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Look Who's Talking Now!
2007
In the Land of Women
5.867/446
After a bad breakup with his girlfriend leaves him heartbroken, Carter Webb moves to Michigan to take care of his ailing grandmother. Once there, he g...
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In the Land of Women
2006
The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines
6.221/517
After retrieving the Crystal Skull in Utah, Flynn Carsen receives a map in the mail with the secret location of King Solomon's Mines. When the scroll...
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The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines
2005
3 Needles
6.333/15
A three-paneled look at the worldwide AIDS crisis: in Montreal, a porn actor schemes to pass his mandatory blood test; a young nun makes a personal sa...
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3 Needles
1998
Jane Austen's Mafia!
5.4/169
Takeoff on the Godfather with the son of a mafia king taking over for his dying father.
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Jane Austen's Mafia!
2000
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
6.5/15
After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an...
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The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
2009
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
6.868/53
John Cazale was in only five films – The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather: Part II, Dog Day Afternoon and The Deer Hunter – each was nominat...
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I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2018
Change in the Air
5.4/11
A peaceful community is forever changed when a mysterious young woman moves in. As the quirky locals embrace her, their lives soon improve. But, they...
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Change in the Air
2000
Borough of Kings
0/0
Toil and trouble. Jimmy, an aspiring actor, wants out of South Brooklyn where hoods run the show. Since the death of his firefighter father, Jimmy's f...
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Borough of Kings
1985
Flanagan
0/0
Aging New York cabbie Flanagan still has hopes of making it as a stage actor. He can recite any Shakespeare sonnet and is facile with accents, but he...
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Flanagan
1971
Made For Each Other
6.5/2
An eccentric woman meets an equally odd man at a group therapy session and they begin a relationship.
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Made For Each Other
1995
Dead Badge
10/2
After a cop dies, his shield goes back on duty. They call it a "dead badge" - a way to honor a fallen officer. Badge #2424 used to belong to Many Tor...
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Dead Badge
1975
The Seagull
0/0
Anton Chekhov's play "The Seagull" is brought to life in this acclaimed 1975 production directed by John Desmond. Seeking to reform the theater, Konst...
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The Seagull
2021
Not to Forget
6.929/7
A judge sentences a self-centered millennial to take care of his grandmother, who's affected by Alzheimer's. As he realizes the extent of the elderly...
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Not to Forget
2001
And Never Let Her Go
7/5
The true story of a woman's suspicious disappearance after ending an affair with a powerful, married attorney.
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And Never Let Her Go
1994
I Love Trouble
5.469/194
Rival Chicago reporters Sabrina Peterson and Peter Brackett join forces to uncover a train wreck conspiracy.
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I Love Trouble
1995
Mighty Aphrodite
6.728/590
When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother i...
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Mighty Aphrodite
1980
The Idolmaker
5.6/15
Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.
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The Idolmaker
2014
A Little Game
6.6/29
Ostracized at her posh new uptown school and shaken by the death of her beloved grandmother, a 10 year-old downtown girl finds an unlikely mentor in t...
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A Little Game
2004
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear
6.235/581
When a magical artifact is lifted from his library, a meek librarian sets out to ensure its safe return.
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The Librarian: Quest for the Spear
1996
Jerusalem
7.1/13
Members of a devout Christian congregation try to start a new life in Palestine.
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Jerusalem
1990
Look Who's Talking Too
5.491/1283
Mollie and James are together and raising a family, which now consists of an older Mikey and his baby sister, Julie. Tension between the siblings aris...
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Look Who's Talking Too
1972
Sisters
6.7/332
Inquisitive journalist Grace Collier is horrified when she witnesses her neighbor, fashion model Danielle Breton, violently murder a man. Panicking, s...
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Sisters
2021
Cher: In Her Own Words
0/0
Cher, the star who refused to be boxed in, stood up to conformity, and championed female independence. Proving the doubters wrong with every change of...
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Cher: In Her Own Words
1998
The Pentagon Wars
7/43
From the director of “Made In America” and “The Money Pit” comes a hilarious look at one of the most expensive blunders in military history. Over 17 y...
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The Pentagon Wars
1982
The Neighborhood
0/0
A neighborhood in Brooklyn reacts to the first black families moving into the community.
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The Neighborhood
1988
Working Girl
6.587/835
Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg ski...
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Working Girl
1969
John and Mary
6.056/27
John and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.
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John and Mary
1995
Jeffrey
6.324/54
Jeffrey, a gay man living in New York City with an overwhelming fear of contracting AIDS, concludes that being celibate is the only option to protect...
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Jeffrey
1979
Rich Kids
5.3/12
Two 12-year-olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents lives and their own adolescent feelings.
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Rich Kids
2016
The Infiltrator
6.657/1537
A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.
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The Infiltrator
1996
Milk & Money
0/0
When David drops out of medical school, he finds out what life isn't really like. He meets beautiful women, holds a box, helps make a movie, and takes...
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Milk & Money
1964
Lilith
6.484/62
Vincent Bruce, a war veteran, begins working as an occupational therapist at Poplar Lodge, a private psychiatric facility for wealthy people where he...
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Lilith
2016
Starring Austin Pendleton
7/2
A quirky and inspirational documentary film on the philosophical approach to the life and work of character actor, Austin Pendleton.
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Starring Austin Pendleton
2006
Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family
2/1
Documentary highlighting the development of the screenplay into a film with the desired cast. It also describes the closeness among Italian families,...
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Moonstruck: At the Heart of an Italian Family
1979
The Wanderers
6.973/169
The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by R...
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The Wanderers
1969
Stiletto
5.3/3
A rich, jet-setting playboy has a secret life: he's also a professional Mafia hitman. When he decides it's time to retire from that life, he finds tha...
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Stiletto
2011
Birds of a Feather
2/1
A coming of age film for 40 year olds. Three middle-aged friends reunite to put on a play and find themselves again.
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Birds of a Feather
1982
National Lampoon's Movie Madness
3.32/25
A parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories.
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National Lampoon's Movie Madness
1974
Death Wish
6.897/729
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be...
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Death Wish
1980
F.D.R.: The Last Year
6/1
Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term. He also oversees plans for the D-Day Invasio...
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F.D.R.: The Last Year
1994
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
6.457/1829
Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for wh...
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