Marisa Tomei

Marisa Tomei

actress, producer, soundtrack

Marisa Tomei was born on Dec 04, 1964 in USA. Marisa Tomei's big-screen debut came with The Flamingo Kid directed by Garry Marshall in 1984. Marisa Tomei is known for Spider-Man: No Way Home directed by Jon Watts, Tom Holland stars as Peter Parker and Zendaya as MJ. Marisa Tomei has got 27 awards and 60 nominations so far. The most recent award Marisa Tomei achieved is Gold Movie Awards. The upcoming new movie Marisa Tomei plays is Spider-Man: No Way Home which will be released on Dec 17, 2021.

Marisa Tomei was born on December 4, 1964, in Brooklyn, New York, to Patricia "Addie" (Bianchi), a teacher of English, and Gary Tomei, a lawyer, both of Italian descent. Marisa has a brother, actor Adam Tomei. As a child, Marisa's mother frequently corrected her speech as to eliminate her heavy Brooklyn accent. As a teen, Marisa attended Edward R. Murrow High School and graduated in the class of 1982. She was one year into her college education at Boston University when she dropped out for a co-starring role on the CBS daytime drama As the World Turns (1956). Her role on that show paved the way for her entrance into film: in 1984, she made her film debut with a bit part in Le Kid de la plage (1984). Three years later, Marisa became known for her role as Maggie Lawton, Lisa Bonet's college roommate, on the sitcom Campus show (1987).Her real breakthrough came in 1992, when she co-starred as Joe Pesci's hilariously foul-mouthed, scene-stealing girlfriend in Mon cousin Vinny (1992), a performance that won her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Later that year, she turned up briefly as a snippy Mabel Normand in director Richard Attenborough's biopic Chaplin (1992), and was soon given her first starring role in Coeur sauvage (1993). A subsequent starring role -- and attempted makeover into Audrey Hepburn -- in the romantic comedy Only You (1994) proved only moderately successful.Marisa's other 1994 role as Michael Keaton's hugely pregnant wife in Le journal (1994) was well-received, although the film as a whole was not. Fortunately for Tomei, she was able to rebound the following year with a solid performance as a troubled single mother in Nick Cassavetes' Décroche les étoiles (1996) which earned her a Screen Actors Guild nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She turned in a similarly strong work in Welcome to Sarajevo (1997), and in 1998 did some of her best work in years as the sexually liberated, unhinged cousin of Natasha Lyonne's Vivian Abramowitz in Tamara Jenkins' Les taudis de Beverly Hills (1998). Marisa co-starred with Mel Gibson in the hugely successful romantic comedy Ce que veulent les femmes (2000) and during the 2002 movie award season, she proved her first Best Supporting Actress Oscar win was no fluke when she received her second nomination in the same category for the critically acclaimed dark drama, In the Bedroom (2001). She also made a guest appearance on the animated TV phenomenon Les Simpson (1989) as Sara Sloane, a movie star who falls in love with Ned Flanders. In 2006, she went on to do 4 episodes for Rescue me, les héros du 11 septembre (2004). She played Angie, the ex-wife of Tommy Calvin (Denis Leary)'s brother Johnny (Dean Winters). At age 42, Marisa took on a provocative role in legendary filmmaker Sidney Lumet's melodramatic picture 7h58 ce samedi-là (2007), in which she appeared nude in love scenes with costars Ethan Hawke and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Marisa then took on another provocative role as a stripper in the highly acclaimed film The Wrestler (2008) opposite Mickey Rourke. Her great performance earned her many awards from numerous film societies for Best Supporting Actress, a third Academy Award nomination, as well as nominations for a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. Many critics heralded this performance as a standout in her career.

  • Birthday

    Dec 04, 1964
  • Place of Birth

    Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
  • Also known

    Marisa Veriga Tomei, Μαρίσα Βέριγκα Τομέι, 마리사 토메이, Μαρίζα Τομέι

Known For

Awards

27 wins & 60 nominations

Gold Movie Awards
2018
Best Actress
Winner - Best of the Year Award
Laboratory Conditions (2017)
Queen Palm International Film Festival
2018
Best Actress
Winner - Honorable Mention
Laboratory Conditions (2017)
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