She gained prominence for her comedic performance in My Cousin Vinny (1992), which earned her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Variety exclaimed, "Tomei is in top, emotionally forthright form as she charts a life passage similar to Pam's. For her performance, Tomei was named Best Supporting Actress at the 1993 Academy Awards, prevailing over Miranda Richardson, Joan Plowright, Vanessa Redgrave and Judy Davis. The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "Tomei delivers one of her most arresting performances, again without any trace of vanity.

Doing it later in life, it was the opposite of when you do it younger, because it brings a certain kind of cred in a way. Tomei’s good looks also often lead to some humorous scenes where other characters hit on her character or tell Peter how hot his Aunt is, much to his chagrin. 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. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

But if you want to see a Marisa Tomei performance as soon as possible, Spider-Man: No Way Home will be your best bet. Looking to erase the memory of this reveal, he turns to the Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch). The soap opera I was on, As the World Turns, I overlapped a little with Julianne Moore, so we go back a long way. Fortunately for Tomei, she was able to rebound the following year with a solid performance as a troubled single mother in Nick Cassavetes' Unhook the Stars (1996) which earned her a Screen Actors Guild nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

It comes back to the word projection—what people want from me and trying to make everyone feel that. The role won the actress international attention as well as her first Academy Award, for Best Supporting Actress. Perhaps it’s a role she plays for reporters, but spend 10 minutes with the actress and you get the feeling she couldn’t be bothered wasting that much energy on the media. I have an appetite for different types of things, and if I’m lucky enough to be offered those different types of things, sure, I’ll go there. She also made a guest appearance on the animated TV phenomenon The Simpsons (1989) as Sara Sloane, a movie star who falls in love with Ned Flanders.

For most conventional actresses, winning an Oscar at such an early age usually leads to steady work in Hollywood blockbusters, but not Tomei. You received a lot of praise later in your ­career for Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead and The Wrestler, films where you appeared nude. Tomei's other notable films 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).

Her acting career is as unique as the tattoo on her foot showing the Eye of Horus, a reference to the falcon sky god of ancient Egypt and symbol of both royal power and protection. Update: Through a representative, Tomei later reached out to clarify that she did get paid for her work on The King of Staten Island , and had been referring in this conversation to “arcane contractual details. BELIEFS : Stars lined up for elaborate audio Bible : Michael York, Jason Alexander and many others gave voice to a 79-CD reading of Old and New Testaments". She won a Gracie Allen Award for Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her work in the four episodes in which she appeared.Marisa Tomei wears a thin stretch of see-through green mesh fabric that ties together in the back and at the shoulders, forming a backless midriff shirt that follows the barely-there fashion that was popular at the turn of the century. After her Oscar win, Tomei appeared as silent film star Mabel Normand in the film Chaplin, with her then-boyfriend Robert Downey Jr. Originally from Midwood, Brooklyn, Tomei attended Boston University for a year before leaving school to begin her professional acting career. After being able to hold her own against the likes of Pesci and Ralph Macchio in My Cousin Vinny, and coming out of the experience with an Academy Award, the sky became the limit for Marisa Tomei.