Born Dec. 4, 1964, in Brooklyn, N.Y., Marisa Tomei studied acting and dance in high school, spending her summers doing plays in upstate New York. In 1983, after one year at Boston University, she dropped out to accept a role on the soap opera "As the World Turns," where she remained for two years.Tomei's first film role was a one-line part in The Flamingo Kid (1984). She later took another television role as Lisa Bonet's roommate on "A Different World" (1987-88). Her big break came with her turn in My Cousin Vinny (1992), for which she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar.
She followed that with high-profile parts in Chaplin (1992), Untamed Heart (1993) and The Perez Family (1995). After her moving performance in What Women Want (2000), she earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for In the Bedroom (2001) and The Wrestler (2008), with lighter roles in Anger Management and Alfie mixed in between.
AddThe WrestlerMickey Rourke (in a Golden Globe-winning, Oscar-nominated role) stars as retired professional wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson, who returns to the ring to work his way up the circuit for a final shot at defeating his longtime rival. Along the way, he tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter... Read More
AddWar, Inc.John Cusack heads the cast of this outrageous satire as professional ice man Brand Hauser, who's paid by a private corporation's brass to take out the competition -- a Middle East oil minister -- while masquerading as a trade-show director. But not all goes according to plan when Natalie Hegalhuzen... Read More
AddMy Cousin VinnyWhen teenage buddies Billy (Ralph Macchio) and Stan (Mitchell Whitfield) are falsely accused of croaking a convenience-store clerk in a backwoods Southern town, Billy calls on his Noo Yawk cousin Vinny (Joe Pesci), a fast-talking personal injury lawyer who's never tried a case. Vinny's crass... Read More
AddMarilyn Hotchkiss's Ballroom Dancing...Writer-director Randall Miller's heart-achingly sweet drama finds at its soft center Frank Keane (Robert Carlyle), a baker deeply despondent over the death of his wife. Frank finds redemption and hope in tragedy after he helps a stranger (John Goodman) who's sidelined by a fatal accident. It appears... Read More
AddOnly YouAs a child, Faith (Marisa Tomei) was told she'd marry a man named Damon Bradley. When, years later and engaged, she receives a call from her fiancé's friend -- named Damon Bradley -- Faith and her sister-in-law (Bonnie Hunt) take off for Italy to hunt down her soul mate. There, she falls head... Read More
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| Add | King of the Jungle (2000) | R | |
| Add | Slums of Beverly Hills (1998) | R | |
| Add | Since You've Been Gone (1998) | R | |
| Add | Welcome to Sarajevo (1997) | R | |
| Add | Unhook the Stars (1996) | R | |
| Add | Four Rooms (1995) | R | |
| Add | The Perez Family (1995) | R | |
| Add | Only You (1994) | PG | |
| Add | The Paper (1994) | R | |
| Add | Untamed Heart (1993) | PG-13 | |
| Add | Chaplin: The Movie (1992) | PG-13 | |
| Add | My Cousin Vinny (1992) | R | |
| Add | Oscar (1991) | PG | |
| Add | Zandalee (1991) | R | |
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