Marisa Tomei
Biography
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.
Acting (91 movies)
Four Rooms
1995
The Ides of March
2011
In the Bedroom
2001
My Cousin Vinny
1992
The Watcher
2000
What Women Want
2000
Chaplin
1992
Factotum
2005
Wild Hogs
2007
Danika
2006
Happy Accidents
2000
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2007
Oscar
1991
Alfie
2004
The Wrestler
2008
The Guru
2002
Only You
1994
Untamed Heart
1993
The Paper
1994
Anger Management
2003
War, Inc.
2008
Amsterdam
2009
Someone Like You...
2001
Playing for Keeps
1986
Slums of Beverly Hills
1998
Welcome to Sarajevo
1997
She Came to Me
2023
Just a Kiss
2002
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
2023
The Perez Family
1995
Cyrus
2010
Unhook the Stars
1996
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
2011
The Lincoln Lawyer
2011
Salvation Boulevard
2011
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
2006
Only Love
1998
Parental Guidance
2012
Inescapable
2012
Love, Marilyn
2013
King of the Jungle
2000
Equinox
1992
My Own Country
1998
A Better Half
2022
High Tide
2024
Lady Gaga Presents: The Monster Ball Tour at Madison Square Garden
2011
Love Is Strange
2014
Loitering with Intent
2014
Zandalee
1991
Jenifer
2001
The Flamingo Kid
1984
Spare Parts
2015
What I Want My Words to Do to You
2003
The Rewrite
2014
Trainwreck
2015
Upgraded
2024
Love the Coopers
2015
Parker Kane
1990
The Big Short
2015
Spider-Man: Homecoming
2017
The Cold Open
2019
The People Speak
2009
Captain America: Civil War
2016
Grace Is Gone
2007
A Brother's Kiss
1997
Loverboy
2005
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
2002
After Everything
2018
Dark Was the Night
2018
Frankie
2019
Laboratory Conditions
2018
The First Purge
2018
Spider-Man: Far From Home
2019
Since You've Been Gone
1998
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
2017
This Changes Everything
2019
Human Capital
2020
I Hate Kids
2019
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
2019
The King of Staten Island
2020
Directed by Sidney Lumet: How the Devil Was Made
2008
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
2019
Avengers: Endgame
2019
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
2009
Delia's Gone
2022
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
2020
Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021
Beirut: An MCC Virtual TV Event
2020
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994
Brothers
2024
A Different World
1987
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Loitering with Intent | 2014 | Producer |
| High Tide | 2024 | Executive Producer |