Nude Filmography:
>> Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)
>> Untamed Heart (1993)
Mini Biography :
>> Marisa Tomei was born on December 4, 1964, in Brooklyn,
New York to mother Patricia "Addie" Tomei, an English teacher and
father Gary Tomei, a lawyer. Marisa also has a brother, actor Adam
Tomei. As a child Marisa's mother frequently corrected her speech
as to eliminate her heavy Brooklyn accent.
>> As a teen, Marisa attended Edward R. Murrow High School
and graduated the class of 1982. She was one year into her college
education at Boston University when she dropped out for a co-starring
role on the CBS daytime drama "As the World Turns" (1956). Her role
on that show paved the way for her entrance into film: in 1984, she
made her film debut with a bit part in Flamingo Kid, The (1984).
>> Three years later Marisa became known for her role as Maggie
Lawton, Lisa Bonet's college roommate, on the sitcom "Different World,
A" (1987). Her real breakthrough came in 1992, when she costarred
as Joe Pesci's hilariously foul-mouthed, scene-stealing girlfriend
in My Cousin Vinny (1992), a performance that won her a Best Supporting
Actress Oscar.
>> Later that year, she turned up briefly as a snippy Mabel
Normand in director Richard Attenborough's biopic Chaplin (1992),
and was soon given her first starring role in Untamed Heart (1993).
A subsequent starring role -- and attempted makeover into Audrey Hepburn
-- in the romantic comedy Only You (1994) proved only moderately successful.
>> Marisa's other 1994 role as Michael Keaton's hugely pregnant
wife in Paper, The (1994) was well-received, although the film as
a whole was not. Fortunately for Tomei, she was able to rebound the
following year with a solid performance as a troubled single mother
in Nick Cassavetes Unhook the Stars (1996) which earned her a Screen
Actors Guild nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
>> She turned in a similarly strong work in Welcome to Sarajevo
(1997), and in 1998 did some of her best work in years as the sexually
liberated, unhinged cousin of Natasha Lyonne's Vivian Abramowitz in
Tamara Jenkins Slums of Beverly Hills (1998).
>> In recent years, Marisa has co-starred with Mel Gibson in
the hugely successful romantic comedy What Women Want (2000) and during
the 2002 movie award season, she proved her first Best Supporting
Actress Oscar win was no fluke when she received her second nomination
in the same category for the critically acclaimed dark drama, In the
Bedroom (2001).
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