Marisa Tomei Biography

Been born in a well-off family (the Gary father To. Tomei he was a lawyer while the Patricia mother taught English), moved to Manhattan after the smaller birth of the brother Adam. Here it joined to the studies you initially drained (to the Boston University and then to the New York University) those artistic ones to us (dances, theater and recitazione). Noticed from some managing television, in the 1983 taken part soap to the work Thus turns the world.

Its debut in the world of the cinema happened in 1984 with Flamingo Kid, in which it pronounced a single one struck (“You are drunk! ”) that however it was enough in order to make it to them to enter in sitcom To different world (1987, series transmitted in Italy with the title it Denise). It returned on the great screen in 1991 with Zandalee in order then to offer a memorable test in My Vincenzo cousins, film of 1992 that been worth the Oscar like better actress not protagonist. It received a second candidacy for the ambita one statuetta in 2001 with In the Bedroom, even if this time did not succeed to conquer it.

Successively it worked very to theater, also in the Off-Broadway comedies, and for three years it resided to Greewich Village. It returned to the cinema with a role from protagonist in 1993 with Someone to love, quickly followed from Reporters of onslaught of Ron Howard (1994) and in the romantico Only You - Love at first sight of the same year. After the denunciation film Welcomes to Sarajevo (1997, on the ignavia of the UN during the crisis jugoslava) it was brought to light with two substantially comic roles in the other face of Beverly Hills (1998, perhaps its best one perfomance) and in What Women Want - What the women want (2000).

In 2003 she was protagonist of the teatrale tragedy Salomé and doppiatrice of some puntanta of the Simpson, without however compromising its career to Hollywood. In all these years, and cleaner way from the escape of the film My Vincenzo cousins in then, has been often used from the directors like caratterista because of its marked newyorkese accent, than she but she tries to dampen during the private life.

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