Marisa Tomei

Marisa Tomei (born December 4, 1964) is an American actress. She made her film debut in Garry Marshall’s The Flamingo Kid (1984), with Matt Dillon, Richard Crenna, Héctor Elizondo, and Jessica Walter. Other early films include Playing for Keeps (1988), with Harold Gould; John Landis’s Oscar (1991), with Sylvester Stallone, Ornella Muti, Peter Reigert, Chazz Palminteri, Vincent Spano, Tim Curry, and Kirk Douglas; and Zandalee (1991), with Nicolas Cage, Judge Reinhold, Erika Anderson, Viveca Lindfors, Aaron Neville, Joe Pantoliano, and Steve Buscemi.

Her breakout role was in Jonathan Lynn’s My Cousin Vinny (1992), with Joe Pesci, Ralph Macchio, Mitchell Whitfield, Lane Smith, Bruce McGill, Fred Gwynne, and Austin Pendleton – for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Other films in the early 1990s include Alan Rudolph’s Equinox (1992), with Matthew Modine, Lara Flynn Boyle, Tyra Ferrell, Kevin J. O’Connor, Tate Donovan, Lori Singer, and M. Emmett Walsh; Richard Attenborough’s Chaplin (1992), with Robert Downey Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Geraldine Chaplin, Kevin Dunn, Anthony Hopkins, Milla Jovovich, Moira Kelly, Kevin Kline, Diane Lane, Penelope Ann Miller, Paul Rhys, John Thaw, Nancy Travis, and James Woods; Tony Bill’s Untamed Heart (1993), with Christian Slater and Rosie Perez; Ron Howard’s The Paper (1994), with Michael Keaton, Glenn Close, Randy Quaid, Robert Duvall, Jason Alexander, Spalding Gray, and Catherine O’Hara; and Norman Jewison’s Only You (1994), with Downey Jr., Bonnie Hunt, Joaquim de Almeida, Fisher Stevens, and Billy Zane.

Films in the mid to late 1990s include Mira Nair’s The Perez Family (1995), with Alfred Molina, Palminteri, Anjelica Huston, Trini Alvarado, and Celia Cruz; the anthology film Four Rooms (1995), with Tim Roth; Nick Cassavetes’s Unhook the Stars (1996), with Gena Rowlands, Gérard Depardieu, Jake Lloyd, David Sherrill, David Thornton, Bridgette Wilson, and Kelly; A Brother’s Kiss (1997), with Nick Chinlund, Michael Raynor, John Leguizamo, Cathy Moriarty, Perez, and Michael Rapaport; Michael Winterbottom’s Welcome to Sarajevo (1997), with Stephen Dillane, Woody Harrelson, Emira Nušević, Kerry Fox, Goran Višnjić, James Nesbitt, and Emily Lloyd; and Tamara Jenkins’s Slums of Beverly Hills (1998), with Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin, David Krumholtz, Eli Marienthal, Kevin Corrigan, Walter, Rita Moreno, and Carl Reiner.

She was nominated for a second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Todd Field’s In the Bedroom (2001), with Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, Nick Stahl, William Mapother, Celia Weston, and Karen Allen. Other films in the early 2000s include Brad Anderson’s Happy Accidents (2000), with Vincent D’Onofrio, Nadia Dajani, Richard Portnow, Anthony Michael Hall, and Holland Taylor; The Watcher (2000), with James Spader, Ernie Hudson, and Keanu Reeves; King of the Jungle (2000), with Leguizamo, Perez, Rapaport, Rosario Dawson, Julie Carmen, Justin Pierce, and Cliff Gorman; Nancy Meyers’s What Women Want (2000), with Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Lauren Holly, Mark Feuerstein, Alan Alda, Ashley Johnson, Delta Burke, Valerie Perrine, Judy Greer, and Sarah Paulson; and Tony Goldwyn’s Someone Like You (2001), with Ashley Judd, Greg Kinnear, Hugh Jackman, and Ellen Barkin.

More films in the early to mid 2000s include Just a Kiss (2002), with Patrick Breen, Zoe Caldwell, Sarita Choudhury, Taye Diggs, Ron Eldard, Kyra Sedgwick, Marley Shelton, and Peter Dinklage; Daisy von Scherler Mayer’s The Guru (2002), with Jimi Mistry, Heather Graham, Michael McKean, and Christine Baranski; a voice role in the animated film The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002), with Lacey Chabert, Tom Kane, Danielle Harris, Jodi Carlisle, Curry, Lynn Redgrave, Rupert Everett, and Flea; Peter Segal’s Anger Management (2003), with Adam Sandler, Jack Nicholson, Luis Guzmán, Harrelson, and John Turturro; and Charles Shyer’s Alfie (2004), with Jude Law, Omar Epps, Nia Long, Jane Krakowski, Sienna Miller, and Susan Sarandon.

Films in the mid 2000s include Loverboy (2005), with Kyra Sedgwick, Kevin Bacon (who also directed), Blair Brown, Sandra Bullock, Dillon, Oliver Platt, Campbell Scott, and Dominic Scott Kay; Randall Miller’s Marilyn Hotchkiss’ Ballroom Dancing & Charm School (2005), with Robert Carlyle, Mary Steenburgen, Sean Astin, Donny Whalberg, Elden Henson, Adam Arkin, Hudson, Dvid Paymer, Octavia Spencer, Danny DeVito, & John Goodman; Ariel Vromen’s Danika (2005), with Regina Hall, Craig Bierko, and Kyle Gallner; and Bent Hamer’s Factotum (2005), with Dillon, Lily Taylor, Adrienne Shelly, Stevens, Karen Young, and Didier Flamand.

Films in the late 2000s include a cameo in James C. Strouse’s Grace Is Gone (2007), with John Cusack and Alessandro Nivola; Wild Hogs (2007), with Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, William H. Macy, Jill Hennessy, and Ray Liotta; Sidney Lumet’s Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007), with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, and Michael Shannon; War, Inc. (2008), with John Cusack, Hilary Duff, Joan Cusack, Aykroyd, and Ben Kingsley; and Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler (2008), with Mickey Rourke, Evan Rachel Wood, Mark Margolis, Todd Barry, and Judah Friedlander – the latter earning her another Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Films in the 2010s include Jay & Mark Duplass’s Cyrus (2010), with John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill, and Catherine Keener; Salvation Boulevard (2011), with Pierce Brosnan, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Kinnear, and Jim Gaffigan; Brad Furman’s The Lincoln Lawyer (2011), with Matthew McConaughey, Mickey Haller. Ryan Phillippe, Josh Lucas, Leguizamo, Macy, and Bryan Cranston; Glenn Ficarra & John Requa’s Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011), with Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone, John Carroll Lynch, and Bacon; The Ides of March (2011), with George Clooney (who also directed), Gosling, Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Jeffrey Wright, and Wood; Ruba Nadda’s Inescapable (2012), with Alexander Siddig, Joshua Jackson, and Oded Fehr; Parental Guidance (2012), with Billy Crystal, Bette Midler, and Tom Everett Scott; Ira Sachs’s Love Is Strange (2014), with Molina, John Lithgow, Darren Burrows, Charlie Tahan, Cheyenne Jackson, and Manny Pérez; Adam Rapp’s Loitering with Intent (2014), with Ivan Martin, Michael Godere, Sam Rockwell, Brian Geraghty, Isabelle McNally, and Lyonne; and Marc Lawrence’s The Rewrite (2014), with Hugh Grant, Bella Heathcote, J.K. Simmons, Chris Elliott, and Allison Janney.

Films in the mid 2010s include Spare Parts (2015), with George Lopez, Jamie Lee Curtis, Carlos PenaVega, Esai Morales, José Julián, David Del Rio, Oscar Gutierrez, Alexa PenaVega, and Alessandra Rosaldo; a cameo in Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck (2015), with Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson, Colin Quinn, John Cena, Vanessa Bayer, Tilda Swinton, Ezra Miller, Mike Birbiglia, Norman Lloyd, and LeBron James; Love the Coopers (2015), with Arkin, Goodman, Goodman, Ed Helms, Diane Keaton, Jake Lacy, Mackie, Amanda Seyfried, June Squibb, Timothée Chalamet, Olivia Wilde, the voice of Steve Martin; and Adam McKay’s The Big Short (2015), with Christian Bale, Carell, Gosling, Brad Pitt, John Magaro, Finn Wittrock, Hamish Linklater, Rafe Spall, Jeremy Strong.

She played May Parker in various entries of the Marvel Cinematic Universe including Captain America: Civil War (2016), with Chris Evans, Downey, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Renner, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Rudd, Emily VanCamp, Tom Holland, Frank Grillo, Martin Freeman, William Hurt, and Daniel Brühl; Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), with Holland, Keaton, Jon Favreau, Gwyneth Paltrow, Zendaya, Donald Glover, Jacob Batalon, Laura Harrier, Tony Revolori, Bokeem Woodbine, Tyne Daly, and Downey; Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), with Samuel L. Jackson, Zendaya, Cobie Smulders, Favreau, J.B. Smoove, Batalon, Angourie Rice, Martin Starr, Revolori, and Jake Gyllenhaal; and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), with Holland, Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Batalon, Favreau, Willem Dafoe, Alfred Molina, Jamie Foxx, Benedict Wong, Revolori, Andrew Garfield, Tobey Maguire, and Simmons.

Films in the late 2010s include Hannah Marks & Joey Power’s After Everything (2018), with Jeremy Allen White, Maika Monroe, DeRon Horton, Sasha Lane, Dean Winters, Joe Keery, and Gina Gershon; The First Purge (2018), with Y’lan Noel, Lex Scott Davis, Joivan Wade, and Steve Harris; Joshua Leonard’s Dark Was the Night (2018), with Charlie Plummer and Timothy Olyphant; I Hate Kids (2019), with Scott and Titus Burgess; Frankie (2019), with Isabelle Huppert, Brendan Gleeson, Jérémie Renier, Pascal Greggory, Vinette Robinson, Ariyon Bakare, Carloto Cotta, Sennia Nanua, and Kinnnear; and Marc Meyers’s Human Capital (2019), with Liev Schreiber, Peter Sarsgaard, Maya Hawke, Alex Wolff, Betty Gabriel, Aasif Mandvi, Paul Sparks and Fred Hechinger.

Films in the 2020s include The King of Staten Island (2020), with Pete Davidson, Bill Burr, Bel Powley, Maude Apatow, and Buscemi; Robert Budreau’s Delia’s Gone (2022), with Stephan James, Paul Walter Hauser, and Travis Fimmel; Rebecca Miller’s She Came to Me (2023), with Dinklage, Joanna Kulig, Brian d’Arcy James, and Anne Hathaway; Carlson Young’s Upgraded (2024), with Camila Mendes, Archie Renaux, Thomas Kretschmann, Grégory Montel, Lena Olin, and Saoirse-Monica Jackson; Marco Calvani’s High Tide (2014), with Marco Pigossi, James Bland, and Bill Irwin; and Mark Barbakow’s Brothers (2024), with Josh Brolin, Peter Dinklage, Taylour Paige, Walsh, Jennifer Landon, Brendan Fraser, and Close.

TV movies include Parker Kane (1990), with Jeff Fahey, Drew Snyder, Gail O’Grady, Pattie LaBelle, Zakes Mokae, Stellan Skarsgård, and David Caruso, and Alan Rosenberg; an uncredited appearance in Since You’ve Been Gone (1998), with Philip Rayburn Smith, David Schwimmer (who also directed), Boyle, Teri Hatcher, Joey Slotnick, Joy Gregory, Heidi Stillman, and Jon Stewart; Only Love (1998), with Rob Morrow, Mathilda May, Jeroen Krabbé, and Paul Freeman; My Own Country (1998), with Naveen Andrews, Glenne Headly, Hal Holbrook, and Swoosie Kurtz; Jenifer (2001), with Laura San Giacomo, Jane Kaczmarek, Annabella Sciorra, and Jane Alexander; and Sarah Cooper: Everything’s Fine (2020), with Sarah Cooper, Aubrey Plaza, John Hamm, Winona Ryder, Ben Stiller, Helen Mirren, Jane Lynch, Whoopi Goldberg, Maya Rudolph, Fred Armison, Danielle Brooks, and Tommy Davidson.

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

The Flamingo Kid (1984) – directed by Garry Marshall
The Toxic Avenger (1984) – directed by Michael Hertz & Lloyd Kaufman (as Samuel Weil) – uncredited – appears in director’s cut only
Playing for Keeps (1988) – directed by Bob & Harvey Weinstein
Parker Kane (1990) – directed by Steve Perry – TV movie
Oscar (1991) – directed by John Landis
Zandalee (1991) – directed by Sam Pillsbury
My Cousin Vinny (1992) – directed by Jonathan Lynn
Equinox (1992) – directed by Alan Rudolph
Chaplin (1992) – directed by Richard Attenborough
Untamed Heart (1993) – directed by Tony Bill
The Paper (1994) – directed by Ron Howard
Only You (1994) – directed by Norman Jewison
The Perez Family (1995) – directed by Mira Nair
Four Rooms (1995) – directed by Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, & Quentin Tarantino – anthology
Unhook the Stars (1996) – directed by Nick Cassavetes
A Brother’s Kiss (1997) – directed by Seth Zvi Rosenfeld
Welcome to Sarajevo (1997 – directed by Michael Winterbottom
Since You’ve Been Gone (1998) – directed by David Schwimmer – uncredited – TV movie
Only Love (1998) – directed by John Erman – TV movie
Slums of Beverly Hills (1998) – directed by Tamara Jenkins
My Own Own Country (1998) – directed by Mira Nair
Happy Accidents (2000) – directed by Brad Anderson
The Watcher (2000) – directed by Joe Charbanic
King of the Jungle (2000) – directed by Seth Zvi Rosenfeld
What Women Want (2000) – directed by Nancy Meyers
Dirk and Betty (2000) – directed by Robert Bauer & Paul Gordon
In the Bedroom (2001) – directed by Todd Field
Someone like You (2001) – directed by Tony Goldwyn
Jenifer (2001) – directed by Jace Alexander – TV movie
Just a Kiss (2002) – directed by Fisher Stevens
The Guru (2002) – directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer
The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002)* – by Jeff McGrath & Cathy Malkasian
Anger Management (2003)* – directed by Peter Segal
Alfie (2004) – directed by Charles Shyer
Loverboy (2005) – directed by Kevin Bacon
Marilyn Hotchkiss’ Ballroom Dancing and Charm School (2005) – directed by Randall Miller
Danika (2005) – directed by Ariel Vromen
Factotum (2005) – directed by Bent Hamer
Grace Is Gone (2007) – directed by James C. Strouse
Wild Hogs (2007) – directed by Walt Becker
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007) – directed by Sidney Lumet
War, Inc. (2008) – directed by Joshua Seftel
The Wrestler (2008)* – directed by Darren Aronofsky
Amsterdam (2009) – directed by Ivo van Hove
Cyrus (2010) – directed by Jay & Mark Duplass
Salvation Boulevard (2011) – directed by George Ratliff
The Lincoln Lawyer (2011) – directed by Brad Furman
Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011) – directed by Glenn Ficarra & John Requa
The Ides of March (2011) – directed by George Clooney
Inescapable (2012) – directed by Ruba Nadda
Parental Guidance (2012) – directed by Andy Fickman
She Said, She Said (2013) – directed by Stuart Blumberg – short
Love Is Strange (2014) – directed by Ira Sachs
Loitering with Intent (2014) – directed by Adam Rapp
The Rewrite (2014) – directed by Marc Lawrence
Spare Parts (2015) – directed by Sean McNamara
Trainwreck (2015) – directed by Judd Apatow – cameo
Love the Coopers (2015) – directed by Jessie Nelson
The Big Short (2015) – directed by Adam McKay
Captain America: Civil War (2016)* – directed by Anthony & Joe Russo
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)* – directed by John Watts
Laboratory Conditions (2017) – directed by Jocelyn Stamat – short
After Everything (2018) – directed by Hannah Marks & Joey Power
The First Purge (2018) – directed by Gerard McMurray
Dark Was the Night (2018) – directed by Joshua Leonard
I Hate Kids (2019) – directed by John Asher
Avengers: Endgame (2019)* – directed by Anthony & Joe Russo – cameo
Frankie (2019) – directed by Ira Sachs
Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019)* – directed by John Watts
Human Capital (2019) – directed by Marc Meyers
The King of Staten Island (2020) – directed by Judd Apatow
Sarah Cooper: Everything’s Fine (2020) – directed by Natasha Lyonne – TV special
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)* – directed by John Watts
A Better Half (2022) – directed by Marco Calvani – short
Delia’s Gone (2022) – directed by Robert Budreau
She Came to Me (2023) – directed by Rebecca Miller
Upgraded (2024) – directed by Carlson Young
High Tide (2024) – directed by Marco Calvani – also executive producer
Brothers (2024) – directed by Max Barbakow
You’re Dating a Narcissist! (202-) – directed by Ann Marie Allison

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