Profile: Marisa Tomei
Birth Date: December 4, 1964
Birth Place: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Height: 5' 6"
Education: Boston University--one year, Edward R Murrow High School Brooklyn New York
Claime to Fame: Playing Mona Lisa Vito in My Cousin Vinny (1993)
Marisa Tomei Biography
Plucky Brooklyn-born actress Marisa Tomei was one year into her college education at Boston University when she was tapped for a costarring role on the CBS daytime drama As the World Turns. Her role on that show, as well as work on another soap, One Life to Live, paved the way for her entrance into film: in 1984, she made her film debut with a bit part in The Flamingo Kid.
Three years later Tomei became known for her role as Maggie Lawton, Lisa Bonet's college roommate, on the sitcom A Different World. Her real breakthrough came in 1992, when she co-starred as Joe Pesci's hilariously foul-mouthed girlfriend in My Cousin Vinny, a performance that won her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Later that year, she turned up briefly as a snippy Mabel Normand in director Richard Attenborough's mammoth biopic Chaplin, and was soon given her first starring role in Untamed Heart (1993). A subsequent starring role--and attempted make-over into Audrey Hepburn--in the romantic comedy Only You (1994) proved only moderately successful. Tomei's other 1994 role as Michael Keaton's pregnant wife in The Paper was well-received, although the film as a whole was not. Worse luck hit with her participation in the critically thrashed Four Rooms in 1995. Fortunately for Tomei, she was able to rebound somewhat the following year with a solid performance as a troubled single mother in Nick Cassavetes Unhook the Stars. She turned in a similarly strong work in Welcome to Sarajevo in 1997, and in 1998 did some of her best work in years as the sexually liberated, unhinged cousin of Natasha Lyonne's Vivian Abramowitz in Tamara Jenkins' The Slums of Beverly Hills.
Marisa Tomei Filmography
Factotum (2005)
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School (2005)--Meredith Morrison
Loverboy (2004)
Alfie (2004)--Julie
"Game Over" (2004/I) TV Series (voice)--Raquel Smashenburn (unaired
pilot)
Anger Management (2003)--Linda
Wild Thornberrys Movie, The (2002) (voice)--Bree Blackburn
Guru, The (2002)--Lexi
Just a Kiss (2001)--Paula
Someone Like You... (2001)--Liz
In the Bedroom (2001)--Natalie Strout
Behind the Scenes: Road to El Dorado (2000)
Dirk and Betty (2000)--Paris
King of the Jungle (2000)
What Women Want (2000)--Lola
The Watcher (2000)--Dr. Polly Beilman
Happy Accidents (2000)--Ruby Weaver
My Own Country (1998) (TV)--Mattie Vines
Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)--Rita Abromowitz
Only Love (1998) (TV)--Evie
Since You've Been Gone (1998) (TV)--Tori the Friend
Reflections of Eden (1997)
Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)--Nina
A Brother's Kiss (1997)--Missy
Unhook the Stars (1996)--Monica Warren
Four Rooms (1995)--Margaret
The Perez Family (1995)--Dorita Evita Perez
Only You (1994)--Faith Corvatch
The Paper (1994)--Martha Hackett
Untamed Heart (1993)--Caroline
Chaplin (1992)--Mabel Normand
Equinox (1992)--Rosie Rivers
My Cousin Vinny (1992)--Mona Lisa 'Lise' Vito
Zandalee (1991)--Remy
Oscar (1991)--Lisa Provolone
Parker Kane (1990) (TV)--April Haynes
A Different World (1987) TV Series--Maggie Lauten (1987-1988)
Playing for Keeps (1986)--Tracy Toxic
The Avenger (1985)--Health Club Girl
The Flamingo Kid (1984)--Mandy
As the World Turns (1956) TV Series--Marcy Thompson Cushing (1983-1985)
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