Marisa Tomei
Acting
Born December 4, 1964 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Marisa Tomei (born December 4, 1964) is an American actress. She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award and nominations for two further Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. After working on the television series As the World Turns, Tomei came to prominence as a cast member on The Cosby Show spin-off A Different World in 1987. After having minor roles in a few films, she came to international attention in 1992 with the comedy, My Cousin Vinny, for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She received two additional Academy Award nominations for In the Bedroom (2001) and The Wrestler (2008). Tomei has appeared in a number of successful movies, including What Women Want (2000), Anger Management (2003), Wild Hogs (2007), The Ides of March (2011), and Parental Guidance (2012). She also portrayed May Parker in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, having appeared in Captain America: Civil War (2016), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Avengers: Endgame (2019), Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). Tomei has also worked in theater. She was formerly involved with the Naked Angels Theater Company and appeared in plays, such as Daughters (1986), Wait Until Dark (1998), Top Girls (2008), for which she received a nomination for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, and The Realistic Joneses (2014), for which she received a special award at the Drama Desk Awards.
Films (100)
You're Dating a Narcissist!
2026
F Valentine's Day
2026
High Tide
2024
Brothers
2024
Upgraded
2024
She Came to Me
2023
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
2023
Delia's Gone
2022
A Better Half
2022
Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
2020
The King of Staten Island
2020
Human Capital
2020
Beirut: An MCC Virtual TV Event
2020
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
2019
Frankie
2019
Spider-Man: Far From Home
2019
This Changes Everything
2019
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
2019
Avengers: Endgame
2019
The Cold Open
2019
I Hate Kids
2019
Dark Was the Night
2018
Laboratory Conditions
2018
After Everything
2018
The First Purge
2018
Spider-Man: Homecoming
2017
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
2017
Captain America: Civil War
2016
The Big Short
2015
Love the Coopers
2015
Trainwreck
2015
Spare Parts
2015
Love Is Strange
2014
The Rewrite
2014
Loitering with Intent
2014
Love, Marilyn
2013
She Said, She Said
2013
Parental Guidance
2012
Inescapable
2012
The Ides of March
2011
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
2011
Salvation Boulevard
2011
Lady Gaga Presents: The Monster Ball Tour at Madison Square Garden
2011
The Lincoln Lawyer
2011
Cyrus
2010
The People Speak
2009
Amsterdam
2009
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
2009
The Wrestler
2008
War, Inc.
2008
Directed by Sidney Lumet: How the Devil Was Made
2008
Grace Is Gone
2007
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2007
Wild Hogs
2007
Danika
2006
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
2006
Factotum
2005
Loverboy
2005
Alfie
2004
Cabin Fever: Beneath the Skin
2004
What I Want My Words to Do to You
2003
Anger Management
2003
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
2002
The Guru
2002
Just a Kiss
2002
In the Bedroom
2001
Jenifer
2001
Someone Like You...
2001
What Women Want
2000
King of the Jungle
2000
The Watcher
2000
Happy Accidents
2000
Dirk and Betty
2000
Slums of Beverly Hills
1998
My Own Country
1998
Since You've Been Gone
1998
Only Love
1998
Welcome to Sarajevo
1997
A Brother's Kiss
1997
Unhook the Stars
1996
Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen
1996
Four Rooms
1995
The Perez Family
1995
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994
The Paper
1994
Only You
1994
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration
1993
Untamed Heart
1993
Chaplin
1992
Equinox
1992
My Cousin Vinny
1992
Zandalee
1991
Oscar
1991
Parker Kane
1990
Supermom's Daughter
1987
Playing for Keeps
1986
The Flamingo Kid
1984
The Toxic Avenger
1984