
Marisa Tomei
Born: 1964-12-04
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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.
Known For

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Avengers: Endgame

Spider-Man: Homecoming

Spider-Man: Far From Home

Captain America: Civil War

Crazy, Stupid, Love.

Upgraded

What Women Want

The Big Short

Wild Hogs

My Cousin Vinny

The First Purge

Brothers

Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration

Laboratory Conditions

Chaplin

War, Inc.

Anger Management

The Lincoln Lawyer

Trainwreck

Oscar

Parental Guidance

Four Rooms

Only Love

Zandalee

The Guru

The Ides of March

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

The Wild Thornberrys Movie

The King of Staten Island

Cyrus

In the Bedroom

Danika

The Wrestler

Equinox

Love, Marilyn

Loverboy

Only You

Love the Coopers

Happy Accidents

Playing for Keeps

She Came to Me

Someone Like You...

Alfie

The Watcher

Inescapable

Amsterdam

Frankie

Parker Kane

A Different World

This Changes Everything

Spare Parts

High Tide

Untamed Heart

Welcome to Sarajevo

I Hate Kids

The People Speak

King of the Jungle

Slums of Beverly Hills

A Brother's Kiss

After Everything

Loitering with Intent

Love Is Strange

The Paper

The Rewrite

Unhook the Stars

The Perez Family

Just a Kiss

Factotum

Dark Was the Night

Grace Is Gone

Human Capital

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"

Salvation Boulevard

Since You've Been Gone

Delia's Gone

Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!

Lady Gaga Presents: The Monster Ball Tour at Madison Square Garden

Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love

A Better Half

The Flamingo Kid

Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"

The Cold Open

My Own Country

Jenifer

Citizen Jane: Battle for the City

Beirut: An MCC Virtual TV Event

What I Want My Words to Do to You

We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
