1. Marisa Tomei gained prominence for her comedic performance in My Cousin Vinny, which earned her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
52 Facts About Marisa Tomei
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Marisa Tomei received further nominations in the category for In the Bedroom and The Wrestler.
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Marisa Tomei was a founding member of the Naked Angels Theater Company.
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Marisa Tomei appeared in John Morgan Evans' Daughters off-Broadway before making her Broadway debut in Wait Until Dark opposite Quentin Tarantino.
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Marisa Tomei earned a nomination for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for her role in Top Girls, and a special Drama Desk Award for Will Eno's The Realistic Joneses.
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Marisa Tomei returned to Broadway in the revival of The Rose Tattoo in 2019.
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Marisa Tomei was born on December 4,1964, in Brooklyn, New York City, to Adelaide "Addie", an English teacher, and Gary A Tomei, a trial lawyer.
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Marisa Tomei has a younger brother, actor Adam Tomei, and was partly raised by her paternal grandparents.
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Marisa Tomei's parents are both of Italian descent; her father's ancestors came from Tuscany, Calabria, and Campania, while her mother's ancestors are from Tuscany and Sicily.
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Marisa Tomei graduated from Edward R Murrow High School in 1982.
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Marisa Tomei followed up As the World Turns in 1987 with a main role on the sitcom A Different World as Maggie Lauten during the first season.
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Marisa Tomei's film debut was a minor role in the 1984 comedy film The Flamingo Kid, in which she played Mandy, a waitress.
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Marisa Tomei continued to take roles off-Broadway in the plays Beirut in 1987, Sharon and Billy in 1988, and What the Butler Saw in 1989.
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Marisa Tomei portrayed Rosa Delle Rose in The Rose Tattoo at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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Marisa Tomei took more prominent roles opposite Sylvester Stallone in the comedy Oscar, and Nicolas Cage in the erotic thriller Zandalee.
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Marisa Tomei gives every indication of being a fine comedian, whether towering over Mr Pesci and trying to look small, or arguing about a leaky faucet in terms that demonstrate her knowledge of plumbing.
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Marisa Tomei had won the previous year for Best Breakthrough Performance for My Cousin Vinny.
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The next year, Marisa Tomei played a pregnant journalist in the comedy-drama The Paper, and appeared alongside Downey again in the romantic comedy Only You.
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Marisa Tomei then appeared in Nick Cassavetes' Unhook the Stars.
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Marisa Tomei is equally fine as Mildred's [Rowlands' character's] younger, hot-tempered neighbor, whose raw working-class feistiness and bluntly profane vocabulary initially repel the genteel older woman.
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Marisa Tomei made an appearance on The Simpsons as movie star Sara Sloane, who falls in love with Ned Flanders.
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Former Saturday Night Live cast member Jay Mohr wrote in his book Gasping for Airtime that, as guest host in October 1994, Marisa Tomei insisted that the proposed sketch "Good Morning Brooklyn" not be used because she did not like the idea of being stereotyped.
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Marisa Tomei parodied her My Cousin Vinny role and its considerable Brooklyn influence in a skit spoofing the 1995 OJ.
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Matt Wolf of Variety wrote "Marisa Tomei gives a likable, if not wildly interesting performance".
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Marisa Tomei appeared in the Nancy Meyers directed comedy What Women Want starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt.
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Marisa Tomei had a supporting role in the romantic comedy Someone Like You starring Ashley Judd, Hugh Jackman, and Greg Kinnear.
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Marisa Tomei herself earned several awards including a ShoWest Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2002.
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Marisa Tomei's ruined, sorrowful Natalie is easily her finest screen role.
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Marisa Tomei shared a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast.
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In 2003, Marisa Tomei appeared in one of her biggest commercial hits the comedy Anger Management starring Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler.
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In 2006, Marisa Tomei had a recurring role in Rescue Me, playing Johnny Gavin's ex-wife Angie.
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Marisa Tomei won a Gracie Allen Award for Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her work in the four episodes in which she appeared.
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Marisa Tomei starred in the independent drama film Grace is Gone starring John Cusack and the Sidney Lumet-directed Before the Devil Knows You're Dead starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke.
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Marisa Tomei appeared in several nude dance numbers in the film.
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In 2009, Marisa Tomei recorded the role of Mary Magdalene in Thomas Nelson's audio Bible production The Word of Promise.
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In 2010, Tomei appeared in Cyrus, a comedy-drama co-starring John C Reilly and Jonah Hill.
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Marisa Tomei hosted the 2011 Scientific and Technical Awards, which was followed by an appearance at the 83rd Academy Awards.
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Marisa Tomei starred in the mystery-suspense film The Lincoln Lawyer.
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Marisa Tomei appeared in Salvation Boulevard, which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.
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Marisa Tomei portrayed a single mom back in school at Binghamton University taking a class taught by Hugh Grant in Marc Lawrence's 2014 written and directed The Rewrite.
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Marisa Tomei starred in the Ira Sachs drama Love Is Strange alongside Alfred Molina and John Lithgow.
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Marisa Tomei took roles in the crime drama The Big Short, the horror film The First Purge, the comedy-drama The King of Staten Island.
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Marisa Tomei returned to Broadway in the revival of The Rose Tattoo at the American Airlines Theatre.
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Marisa Tomei reprised the role of Serafina Delle Rose which she previously played off-Broadway.
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Marisa Tomei was cast to play All in the Family's Edith Bunker in ABC's Live in Front of a Studio Audience specials in 2019 and 2020.
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Marisa Tomei took a supporting role in the Amazon Prime Video romantic comedy Upgraded starring Camila Mendes.
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Marisa Tomei has been highly ranked on various magazines' most attractive lists.
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Between 2008 and 2012, Marisa Tomei was in a relationship with actor Logan Marshall-Green.
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Marisa Tomei has supported voting, drawing attention to the Voter ID assistance available through VoteRiders.
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Marisa Tomei received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her comedic role in My Cousin Vinny.
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Marisa Tomei was further Oscar-nominated for her roles in the Todd Field drama In the Bedroom and the Darren Aronofsky drama The Wrestler.
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Marisa Tomei received nominations for a Daytime Emmy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, an Independent Spirit Award, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.