Marisa Tomei

About Marisa Tomei

Marisa Tomei is an American actress. She gained prominence for her comedic performance in My Cousin Vinny (1992), which earned her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She received further nominations in the 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 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). She also portrayed May Parker in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, from Captain America: Civil War (2016) to Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021).

Tomei was a founding member of the Naked Angels Theater Company. She appeared in John Morgan Evans' Daughters (1986) off-Broadway before making her Broadway debut in Wait Until Dark opposite Quentin Tarantino (1998). She earned a nomination for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for her role in Top Girls (2008), and a special Drama Desk Award for Will Eno's The Realistic Joneses (2014). She returned to Broadway in the revival of The Rose Tattoo in 2019.

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 been 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 complete human beings."

Tomei has supported voting, drawing attention to the Voter ID assistance available through VoteRiders.

Tomei was featured in two programs dealing with genealogical research: Who Do You Think You Are? and the PBS program Finding Your Roots. Researchers mapped out Tomei's family tree and analyzed her DNA. When Tomei's friend, actress Julianne Moore, appeared on Finding Your Roots, Tomei and Moore learned they are cousins.

Tomei is of Sicilian and Tuscan Italian descent. As of November 2024, she has amassed 2.1 million Instagram followers.