Marisa Tomei Biography
Marisa Tomei is an actress from the United States of America who is most known for her role in various films. In 1987, she appeared in The Cosby Show spin-off A Different World. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1992 comedy My Cousin Vinny. She was nominated for two more Academy Awards for In the Bedroom (2001) and The Wrestler (2002). (2008).
How old is Marisa Tomei?- Age
Tomei was born on December 4, 1964, in Brooklyn, New York, United States of America, she is 58 years old as of December 2022.
Marisa Tomei Education
In 1982, she graduated from Edward R. Murrow High School. She also studied at the Albee School of Dance. She attended Boston University for a year after graduating from high school.
Marisa Tomei Height- Weight
Marisa stands at a height of height, 5 feet 5 inches (1.64 m) and Weighs, 54 kg (119 lbs).
Marisa Tomei Family- Parents
Tomei was born on December 4, 1964, in Brooklyn, New York, to English teacher Adelaide “Addie” Bianchi and trial lawyer Gary A. Tomei. She was raised in part by her paternal grandparents and has a younger brother, actor Adam Tomei. Tomei’s parents are both of Italian descent; her father’s ancestors originated in Tuscany, Calabria, and Campania, and her mother’s ancestors originated in Tuscany and Sicily.
Marisa Tomei Partner- Married- Husband
Tomei was in a relationship with actor Logan Marshall-Green from 2008 to 2012. They were rumored to be engaged, but Tomei’s representative denied this. “I’m not a big fan of marriage as an institution, and I don’t know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings,” Tomei said in 2009.
Marisa Tomei Children
Apparently, she has no children.
Marisa Tomei Films – Career
In 1986, Tomei followed As the World Turns with a recurring role as Maggie Lauten on the sitcom A Different World for the first season. Her feature film debut was as Mandy, a waitress, in the 1984 comedy film The Flamingo Kid. She only had one line in the film. During this period, she made her stage debut as Cetta in the off-Broadway play Daughters in 1987, at the age of 22. Her performance earned her rave reviews and the Theatre World Award for best stage debut. Following several small films, including an Oscar nomination, Tomei rose to international prominence with her comedic performance in My Cousin Vinny, which received critical acclaim.
In the film Chaplin, Tomei played silent film star Mabel Normand, with her then-boyfriend Robert Downey Jr. playing Charlie Chaplin. The following year, she co-starred with Christian Slater in the romantic drama Untamed Heart, for which they won the MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss. Tomei had previously won the award for Best Breakthrough Performance for My Cousin Vinny. The following year, Tomei co-starred with Downey in the romantic comedy Only You. After that, she appeared in Nick Cassavetes’ Unhook the Stars. The New York Times’ Stephen Holden compared Tomei’s performance to that of the film’s star, Gena Rowlands, writing, “Ms. Tomei is equally fine as Mildred’s [Rowlands’] younger, hot-tempered neighbor, whose raw working-class feistiness and bluntly profane vocabulary.”
Tomei made several television appearances in the 1990s. She appeared as herself in the two-part episode “The Cadillac” of the sitcom Seinfeld in 1996. In the episode, George Costanza tries to get a date with her through Elaine Benes’ friend. She also appeared as movie star Sara Sloane, who falls in love with Ned Flanders, on The Simpsons. Former Saturday Night Live cast member Jay Mohr wrote in his book Gasping for Airtime that Tomei insisted on not using the proposed sketch “Good Morning Brooklyn” as a guest host in October 1994 because she did not like the idea of being stereotyped. Given SNL’s penchant for satirizing celebrities, this irritated the show’s writers and performers.
In Marc Lawrence’s 2014 written and directed The Rewrite, Tomei played a single mother returning to Binghamton University to take a class taught by Hugh Grant. Tomei starred as Dr. May Updale in The First Purge in 2018. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, she plays Aunt May 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 (2019). (2021). She was also cast in ABC’s Live in Front of a Studio Audience specials as All in the Family’s Edith Bunker.
Marisa Tomei’s Net Worth
Marisa has an estimated net worth of 25 million dollars.