Marisa Tomei was born on December 4, 1964, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. She came to international attention in 1992 with the comedy My Cousin Vinny, for which she received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Tomei has appeared in a number of successful movies, including What Women Want, Anger Management, Wild Hogs, The Ides of March, and Parental Guidance. She also portrays May Parker in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Marisa Tomei was born on December 4, 1964, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. She came to international attention in 1992 with the comedy My Cousin Vinny, for which she received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Tomei has appeared in a number of successful movies, including What Women Want, Anger Management, Wild Hogs, The Ides of March, and Parental Guidance. She also portrays May Parker in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, having appeared in Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Avengers: Endgame, and Spider- man: Far From Home. After her Oscar win, Tomei appeared as silent star Mabel in the film Chaplin, with her then-boyfriend Robert Downey Jr. In 2017, when La Land was mistakenly announced as Best Picture winner because of an error in handling of the award cards, she was announced as the real winner. She has received various accolades, including an Oscar, a BAFTA Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. She is of Italian descent; her father’s ancestors came from Tuscany, Calabria, and Campania, while her mother’s ancestors are from Tuskany and Sicily.
Her younger brother, actor Adam Tomei, was partly raised by her paternal grandparents, and was partly brought up by her maternal grandparents in Brooklyn, New York. She was formerly involved with the Naked Angels Theater Company and appeared in plays, such as Daughters, Wait Until Dark, Top Girls, and The Realistic Joneses. She made her stage debut in 1987 at the age of 22 in the off-Broadway play Daughters, playing Cetta. She received a nomination for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, and the role earned her rave reviews and the Theatre World Award for outstanding debut on stage. She played Maggie Lauten in the sitcom A Different World during the first season of As the World Turns. Her film debut was a minor role in the 1984 comedy film The Flamingo Kid, in which she played Mandy, a waitress, She had only one line in the movie. She appeared in The Big Short, The First Purge and The King of Staten Island. She had two additional Academy Award nominations for In the Bedroom and The Wrestler, and won the Best Actress Oscar for In The Bedroom at the 93rd Academy Awards.
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