1. Cathy Moriarty has starred in numerous leading and supporting roles in a variety of films ranging from independent film features to major film studio productions across many genres.
22 Facts About Cathy Moriarty
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Cathy Moriarty is an advocate of both Autism Speaks and the autism rights movement.
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Cathy Moriarty was born November 29,1960, in The Bronx borough of New York City, the daughter of Irish Catholic immigrants Catherine, a homemaker, and John Cathy Moriarty, a warehouse worker.
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Cathy Moriarty was raised in Yonkers, New York, where she attended Lincoln High School.
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Cathy Moriarty made her film debut in Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull, as Vikki LaMotta, wife of boxer Jake LaMotta, played by Robert De Niro.
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Cathy Moriarty was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Later that year, Cathy Moriarty played John Belushi's destructive, sultry neighbor in Neighbors, a film adaptation of Thomas Berger's novel of the same name.
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In 1985, Cathy Moriarty agreed to co-star with Jack Nicholson in The Two Jakes.
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Cathy Moriarty began the decade with major roles in the thriller film Burndown, Arnold Schwarzenegger's Kindergarten Cop and the soap opera parody Soapdish.
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Cathy Moriarty appeared in the musical drama The Mambo Kings and the horror anthology HBO series Tales from the Crypt, where Moriarty's performance earned her a Best Actress in a Dramatic Series CableACE Award.
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Cathy Moriarty's last performance of the year was a hard-as-nails prostitute in the screwball comedy film, The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag.
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In 1993, Cathy Moriarty starred as John Goodman's wisecracking girlfriend and a film goddess in Joe Dante's period comedy Matinee, and had supporting roles in the comedies Another Stakeout and Me and the Kid.
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Cathy Moriarty played Lois opposite Debra Winger and Billy Crystal in the romantic comedy Forget Paris, followed by the vindictive Carrigan Crittenden in the live action film Casper.
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That year Cathy Moriarty played opposite Angelina Jolie as Hedy Burress's mother in Foxfire, the film adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' novel.
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Cathy Moriarty voiced characters in the animated TV series Stories from My Childhood and the popular children's series Recess.
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Cathy Moriarty played an FBI agent in Red Team, an abusive adoptive mother in the family film Prince of Central Park and a woman who fears death in Next Stop, Eternity.
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Cathy Moriarty starred as crime boss Patti LoPresti in the Mafia comedy film Analyze That, the sequel to 1999's Analyze This, and her third collaboration with De Niro.
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Cathy Moriarty made an appearance as Michael Pitt's bitter, estranged mother in the crime drama Rob the Mob.
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Cathy Moriarty's performance earned a nomination for Best Actress at the Jersey Shore Shorts Film Festival.
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Since then, Cathy Moriarty has regularly performed in both film and on television, with major roles in Patti Cake$, an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival, as well as the NBC series This Is Us, the Ryan Murphy series American Crime Story, the Showtime series I'm Dying Up Here, and City on a Hill.
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In 1981, Cathy Moriarty married theatrical manager Carmine D'Anna and moved into a home in Malibu, California.
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Cathy Moriarty owns the Mulberry Street Pizzeria restaurant chain with co-owner Richie Palmer, to whom she was briefly engaged.