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Marisa Tomeiborn December 4, 1964) is an American actress. She gained prominence for her comedic performance in My Cousin Vinny (1992), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also received nominations in the same category for In the Bedroom (2001) and The Wrestler (2008).
Her early appearances were in the soap opera "As the World Turns" (1983–1985) and the first season of the sitcom "A Different World" (1987). Tomei's other notable film appearances include Chaplin (1992), The Paper (1994), What Women Want (2000), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), Wild Hogs (2007), The Wrestler (2008), The Ides of March (2011), Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), Parental Guidance (2012), The Big Short (2015), and The King of Staten Island (2020). She also played May Parker in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, ranging from Captain America: Civil War (2016) to Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021).
Tomei was a founding member of the Naked Angels Theatre Company. She appeared Off-Broadway in John Morgan Evans's Daughter (1986) before making her Broadway debut in Wait Until Dark with Quentin Tarantino (1998). She received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for her role in Top Girls (2008), and won a Special Drama Desk Award for Will Eno's The Realistic Joneses (2014). She returned to Broadway in the 2019 revival of The Rose Tattoo
Early life
Marisa Tomei was born on December 4, 1964, in Brooklyn, New York City, to Adelaide "Edie an English teacher, and Gary A. Tomei, a trial lawyer.She has a younger brother, actor Adam Tomei, and was raised partly by her paternal grandparents. Tomei's parents are both of Italian descent; her father's ancestors came from Tuscany, Calabria, and Campania, while her mother's ancestors are from Tuscany and Sicily She graduated from Edward R. Murrow High School in 1982.
Tomei grew up in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn. While there, she became fascinated with the Broadway shows her theater-loving parents took her to and was drawn to pursuing a career in acting. At Andries Hood Junior High School, she played Hedy LaRue in a school production of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying". She also studied at the Albee School of Dance. After graduating from high school, she attended Boston University for a year.
Personal life
Between 2008 and 2012, Tomei was in a relationship with actor Logan Marshall-Green. They were rumored to be engaged, but a representative for Tomei denied this. To date, Tomei has never married. Tomei said in 2009, "I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution, and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as full human beings.
Tomei has supported voting, drawing attention to voter identification assistance available through VoteRiders.
Tomei was featured on two programs related to genealogy research: "Who Do You Think You Are?" and the PBS program "Finding Your Roots". Researchers mapped Tomei's family tree and analyzed her DNA. When Tomei's friend, actress Julianne Moore, appeared on "Finding Your Roots", Tomei and Moore discovered they were cousins
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