MARISA TOMEI achieved international stardom as well as an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the hit comedy "My Cousin Vinny." Best known for her rich comic performances, Tomei takes a surprising dramatic turn with "In The Bedroom."
Tomei most recently starred opposite Mel Gibson in Nancy Meyers' "What Women Want" and in Tony Goidwyn's "Someone Like You" with Ashley Judd and Greg Kinnear. Her upcoming roles include Fisher Stevens' romantic comedy "Just a Kiss."
Among Tomei's diverse credits are "Slums of Beverly Hills," "Welcome to Sarajevo," "The Perez Family," "Untamed Heart," "Equinox," "Chaplin," "The Paper," "A Brother's Kiss" and "Unhook the Stars" opposite Gena Rowlands for which she was honored by her peers with a Screen Actors Guild nomination.
On stage, Tomei was recently seen in Nobel Prize-winning playwright Dario Fo's "We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!" Her previous theater credits include Clifford Odet's "Waiting for Lefty" and "Rocket to the Moon," both directed by Joanne Woodward, as well as the premiere of Tony Kushner's "SLAVS" at the New York Public Theater Workshop. Other stage work includes "Comedy of Errors," for the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park, "What the Butler Saw' at the Manhattan Theater Club, work at the Second Stage Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown Theater Festival, among many others. She made her Broadway debut in "Wait Until Dark."
Tomei is a member of the Naked Angels Theater Company and Blue Light Theater Company in New York City.
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