MARISA TOMEI
Biography
Marisa Tomei continues to bridge the gap between rich, dramatic performances and smart, comedic turns. Marisa received an Academy Award for her role as Mona Lisa Vito in My Cousin Vinny. Tomei subsequently earned Academy Awards nominations for her performances in In the Bedroom and The Wrestler.
Marisa can currently be seenin Rebecca Miller’s She Came To Me, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. She also recently completed Upgraded for Amazon with director Carlson Young.
Marisa reprised her role of “May” in Sony Entertainment and Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: No Way Home. The film is the highest-grossing film released by Sony Pictures, and the sixth-highest-grossing film of all time.
Marisa was last seen on Broadway starring in Tennessee Williams’s The Rose Tattoo at the Roundabout Theatre Company.
Marisa returned to television for ABC’s live special of Live In Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s All In The Family & The Jeffersons, playing Edith Bunker.She starred alongside Woody Harrelson, Jamie Foxx and Wanda Sykes. The one-night only event aired live on ABC and has garnered three Emmy Award nominations, and received the award for Outstanding Variety Special (Live).
Marisa recently reunited with Ira Sachs for independent drama, Frankie, which had its world premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Her other notable film credits include The King of Staten Island, The Big Short, Love is Strange, Crazy, Stupid, Love, Ides of March, Loitering with Intent, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, What Women Want, Happy Accidents, and Slums of Beverly Hills. She also appeared on television in Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and FOX’s “Empire,” among others. A veteran of the theater, her previous Broadway credits include: Will Eno’s “The Realistic Joneses” (2014 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance), and Caryl Churchill’s “Top Girls” (Drama Desk Award nomination). Other theater performances include Sarah Ruhl’s “How To Transcend a Happy Marriage” at Lincoln Center, “Oh! The Humanity” and “Other Good Intentions,” “Marie and Bruce,” “Design for Living,” “We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!,” “Waiting for Lefty,” “Rocket to the Moon,” “Demonology,” “Dark Rapture,” “Slavs!,” “The Comedy of Errors,” and “The Summer Winds,” among others.
Tomei is a founding member of the Naked Angels Theater Company in New York City.