Marisa Tomei was born in Brooklyn, New York, and has had a captivating career onscreen ever since she dropped out of Boston University for a role in As The World Turns. Although she got started in daytime drama, she didn't stop there. Tomei found her way into the Cosby Show spinoff, A Different World, playing Lisa Bonet's eccentric roommate, and then moved on to act in movies shortly thereafter.
Marisa Tomei is an Oscar-winning actor, who often plays characters with a complicated and complex personal life, but isn't limited by typecasting. Tomei has had a variety of roles and even played a stripper long before the Hustlers movie.
Slums Of Beverly Hills (1998) - 6.6
Slums of Beverly Hills is a cult classic from 1998 that follows a lower-middle-class family who moves around the outskirts of Beverly Hills so that the three children of a divorced dad can attend the city's public schools. The movie centers around Vivian, played by Natasha Lyonne, who is the eldest daughter of Alan Arkin.
She must navigate young adulthood, coping with some recent bodily developments and looking after her somewhat unstable older cousin as she tries to get through nursing school. Marisa Tomei plays Rita, the older cousin who has a bit of a history with substance abuse.
Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011) - 7.4
Crazy, Stupid, Love is a 2011 movie about a middle-aged man named Cal, played by Steve Carrell, whose life drastically changes when his wife Emily, played by Julianne Moore, tells him she wants a divorce so that she can pursue a relationship with a coworker that she has been having an affair with.
The film chronicles Cal's deep dive back into the dating world, where he befriends a real ladies man who tries to give him advice, played by Ryan Gosling. Marisa Tomei plays Kate a teacher who Cal does successfully hook up with after a lot of coaching from Gosling's character.
Love Is Strange (2014) - 6.7
Love Is Strange is a 2014 movie about an older couple that loses their home and is forced to live separately as they battle the daunting New York housing market. It stars John Lithgow and Andrew Molina as the recently married couple, Ben and George. After the two get married, George loses his teaching position, and they have to look for new housing.
Marisa Tomei plays Kate, the wife of Ben's nephew in this award-winning film.
Four Rooms (1995) - 6.8
Four Rooms is a zany comedy from 1995 which shows four rooms in a hotel with connected storylines on the night of New Year's Eve. Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, and Quentin Tarrantino each wrote and directed the story of one of the four hotel rooms. The plots range from two misbehaving children left home alone messing with the bellhop, to a coven of witches trying to complete a mysterious potion.
Marisa Tomei plays a deadpan stoner girl at a party with whom the bellhop, played by Tim Roth, has a very comical conversation as he's trying to get ahold of his coworker who called in sick.
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) - 7.5
Spider-Man: Far From Home centers around young Peter Parker, played by Tom Holland, as he joins his class on a Europe trip following the events of Avengers: Endgame. Parker struggles to enjoy a normal teenage life with his peers as he is charged to handle a new force that is threatening the world while also trying to win over his crush MJ, played by Zendaya.
Marisa Tomei plays Peter's aunt May who is also beginning a romance.
Chaplin (1992) - 7.6
Chaplin was released in 1992 and stars a young Robert Downey Junior as the man behind the tramp, Charlie Chaplin. The film not only tells the story of his humble beginnings in England and his rise to fame in North America.
It also looks at his personal life, and the people, especially women, who were affected by the various scandals of the man behind the slapstick. Marisa Tomei plays the role of Mabel Normand.
My Cousin Vinny (1992) - 7.6
My Cousin Vinny was also released in 1992 and is a hilarious comedy about two New York college students, played by Ralph Macchio and Mitchell Whitfield, who are on their way home after a road trip. After they mistakenly shoplift, they are arrested and are accused of robbery and murder in a small town in Alabama. The boys are defended by a cousin who has a law degree, but no experience, Vinny, played by Joe Pesci.
Hilarity ensues and Vinny, unaware of the decorum of a Southern court tries to get his clients off. Tomei plays Vinny's fiancée, Mona Lisa Vito.
Cyrus (2010) - 6.3
Cyrus stars John C. Reily as John, a man who is struggling to reenter the dating world seven years after he and his wife, played by Catherine Keener, got divorced. In an attempt to "get back out there" he attends his ex-wife's engagement party and hits it off with Molly, played by Marisa Tomei.
The two lovebirds have instant chemistry but things get comically complicated once he meets Molly's live-in adult son Cyrus, played by Jonah Hill. Reily has to navigate falling for Tomei while also getting acquainted with her bizarre relationship with her only son.
Happy Accidents (2000) - 7.2
Happy Accidents is a romantic comedy from 2000 that stars Marisa Tomei as Ruby and Vincent D'Onofrio as Sam. We learn that Ruby has had a string of bad relationships with partners that she tries to fix through conversations between her and her friends and her therapist.
When she meets Sam, he seems refreshingly sweet and honest. The problem is, he is convinced he is from the future and has a mission that brought him into Ruby's life.
In The Bedroom (2001) - 7.4
In the Bedroom is a 2001 crime drama starring Sissy Spacek and Tom Wilkinson as Matt and Ruth Fowler, a typical New England family whose son Frank, played by Nick Stahl has come after his freshman year in college.
Frank falls in love with and begins a relationship with an older woman, Marisa Tomei, who hasn't quite divorced her husband and is a mother to two small children. Her ex-husband isn't so keen on letting her go and thus begins the drama.