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Marisa Tomei

Film Actress / Voice Actress / Stage Actress / Television Actress / Film Producer / Actress | * 12/04/1964 (59) | Brooklyn, New York (United States of America (USA))
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Marisa Tomei ( toh-MAY, Italian: [toˈmɛi]; born December 4, 1964) is an American actress. She gained prominence for her comedic performance in My Cousin Vinny (1992), which earned her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She received further nominations in the category for In the Bedroom (2001) and The Wrestler (2008). Her early appearances were in the soap opera As the World Turns (1983–1985) and the first season of the sitcom A Different World (1987). Tomei's other notable films include Chaplin (1992), The Paper (1994), What Women Want (2000), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), ()
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Marisa Tomei (born December 4, 1964) is an American actress. She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award and nominations for two further Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.After working on the television series As the World Turns, Tomei came to prominence as a cast member on The Cosby Show spin-off A Different World in 1987. After having minor roles in a few films, she came to international attention in 1992 with the comedy, My Cousin Vinny, for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She received two additional Academy Award nominations for In the Bedroom (2001) and The Wrestler (2008).Tomei has appeared in a number of successful movies, including What Women Want (2000), Anger Management (2003), Wild Hogs (2007), The Ides of March (2011), and Parental Guidance (2012). She also portrayed May Parker in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, having appeared in Captain America: Civil War (2016), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Avengers: Endgame (2019), Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021).Tomei has also worked in theater. She was formerly involved with the Naked Angels Theater Company and appeared in plays, such as Daughters (1986), Wait Until Dark (1998), Top Girls (2008), for which she received a nomination for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, and The Realistic Joneses (2014), for which she received a special award at the Drama Desk Awards.

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Romance / Love

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Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, Randy hangs up his tights, p ...

The Wrestler

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2008 | 3.8/5 | 1h 49min
Drama, Romance / Love
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Two carefree pals traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brookl ...

My Cousin Vinny

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1992 | 3.7/5 | 2h
Comedy, Crime
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Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler is a doctor practicing in his native Maine and is married to New York born Ruth ...

In the Bedroom

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2001 | 3.5/5 | 2h 10min
Drama, Thriller
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The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown. ...

The Big Short

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2015 | 3.7/5 | 2h 11min
Comedy, Drama
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Awards & Nominations for Marisa Tomei

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Drama Desk Special Award Theatre World Award 3x Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lifestyle/Culinary Show Host National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress 2x Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress 2x Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture 2x Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress
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Movies with Marisa Tomei as Actress(92)

as Miriam2024 High Tide
2024 Upgraded
as Self - Guest2023 Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
as Katrina2023 She Came to Me
as Fran2022 Delia's Gone
as Self (archive footage)2022 Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
as May Parker2021 Untitled Spider-Man 3
as Blue2020 Beirut: An MCC Virtual TV Event
as Carrie Manning2020 Human Capital
as Margie Carlin2020 The King of Staten Island
as Satan2020 Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
as Edith Bunker2019 Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
as Edith Bunker2019 Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
as Aunt May2019 Avengers: Endgame
as Christine Hurley2019 I Hate Kids
as Ilene2019 Frankie
as herself2019 This Changes Everything
as May Parker2019 Spider-Man: Far From Home
as Dr. Lisa Harden2018 After Everything
as Dr. May Updale / Architect2018 The First Purge
as Margaret Lang2018 Dark Was the Night
as Emma Holloway2018 Laboratory Conditions
as May Parker2017 Spider-Man: Homecoming
as Jane Jacobs (voice)2017 Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
as May Parker2016 Captain America: Civil War
as Dog Owner2015 Trainwreck
as Cynthia Baum2015 The Big Short
as Gwen Kolinsky2015 Spare Parts
as Emma Newport2015 Love the Coopers
as Kate2014 Love Is Strange
as Holly Carpenter2014 The Rewrite
as Gigi2014 Loitering with Intent
as Marishka2013 She Said, She Said
as herself2013 Love, Marilyn
as Fatima2012 Inescapable
as Alice Simmons2012 Parental Guidance
as Honey Foster2011 Salvation Boulevard
as Kate Tafferty2011 Crazy, Stupid, Love.
as Maggie McPherson2011 The Lincoln Lawyer
as Ida Horowicz2011 The Ides of March
as Molly Fawcett2010 Cyrus
as herself2009 The People Speak
as Donna2009 Amsterdam
as Cassidy2008 The Wrestler
as Natalie Hegalhuzen2008 War, Inc.
2008 Directed by Sidney Lumet: How the Devil Was Made
as Maggie2007 Wild Hogs
as Gina Hanson2007 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
as Woman at Pool2007 Grace Is Gone
as Danika Merrick2006 Danika
as Meredith Morrison2005 Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
as Laura2005 Factotum
as Sybil2005 Loverboy
as Herself - Guest (uncredited)2004 Cabin Fever: Beneath the Skin
as Julie2004 Alfie
as Linda2003 Anger Management
as herself2003 What I Want My Words to Do to You: Voices from Inside a Women's Maximum Security Prison
as Paula2002 Just a Kiss
as Lexi2002 The Guru
as Bree Blackburn (voice)2002 The Wild Thornberrys Movie
as Natalie Strout2001 In the Bedroom
as Nina Capelli2001 Jenifer
as Liz2001 Someone Like You...
as Lola2000 What Women Want
as Dr. Polly Beilman2000 The Watcher
as Ruby Weaver2000 Happy Accidents
as Paris2000 Dirk and Betty
as Det. Costello2000 King of the Jungle
as Tori (uncredited)1998 Since You've Been Gone
as Rita Abromowitz1998 Slums of Beverly Hills
as Mattie Vines1998 My Own Country
as Evie1998 Only Love
as Missy1997 A Brother's Kiss
as Nina1997 Welcome to Sarajevo
as Monica1996 Unhook the Stars
as Quote Reader1996 Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen
as Margaret1995 Four Rooms
as Dorita Evita Perez1995 The Perez Family
as Self (archive footage)1994 Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
as Martha Hackett1994 The Paper
as Faith Corvatch1994 Only You
as Caroline1993 Untamed Heart
as Mabel Normand1992 Chaplin
as Mona Lisa Vito1992 My Cousin Vinny
as Rosie Rivers1992 Equinox
as Remy1991 Zandalee
as Lisa Provolone1991 Oscar
as April Haynes1990 Parker Kane
as Noelle Crandall1987 Supermom's Daughter
as Tracy1986 Playing for Keeps
as Mandy1984 The Flamingo Kid
as Health Club Girl (uncredited)1984 The Toxic Avenger

TV Shows/Series with Marisa Tomei as Actress(17)

as Mimi Whiteman2015 Empire
as herself2012 Finding Your Roots
as herself2010 Conan
as Self - Guest2005 The Reichen Show
2004 Rescue Me
as herself1997 The View
as herself1996 The Daily Show
as Self - Guest1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
as Sara Sloane (voice)1989 The Simpsons
as herself1989 Seinfeld
1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Maggie Lauten1987 A Different World
as Donna Ricci1987 Leg Work
as herself1982 Late Night with David Letterman
as Self - Host1975 Saturday Night Live
as herself??? Today

Movies with Marisa Tomei as Crew(3)

Production/Executive Producer2024 High Tide
Production/Co-Producer2016 SEED: The Untold Story
Production/Producer2014 Loitering with Intent

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Full Name: Marisa Tomei
Born: Friday, 12/04 1964 (December) in Brooklyn, New York (United States of America (USA)) (current age: 59 years + 144 days)
Zodiac sign: Sagittarius (Chinese zodiac sign: Dragon)
Languages: English (EN), Italian (IT)
Educated at: Boston University College of Fine Arts, Edward R. Murrow High School, Andries Hudde Junior High School, Boston University
Other names for Marisa Tomei (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"마리사 토메이"
"Μαρίζα Τομέι"
"Marisa Veriga Tomei"
"Μαρίσα Βέριγκα Τομέι"
Marisa Tomei frequently works together with these people:
Larry David (40x, Actor)
Tress MacNeille (36x, Actress)
Andy Samberg (35x, Actor)
Bill Hader (27x, Actor)
Norman Brenner (24x, Actor)
Pamela Hayden (23x, Actress)
Fred Armisen (22x, Actor)
Kristen Wiig (20x, Actress)
Kenan Thompson (19x, Actor)
Kevin Michael Richardson (17x, Actor)
Will Forte (17x, Actor)
Stan Lee (15x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:1371, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 04/24/2024