Marisa Tomei received an Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the hit comedy My Cousin Vinny. Best known for rich comic performances, Tomei took a dramatic turn with In the Bedroom, earning her second Oscar® nomination.

Tomei recently shot the films Charm School co-starring with John Goodman, Danny DeVito and Robert Carlyle, directed by Randall Miller; Factotum with Matt Dillon, directed by Bent Hamer; and Loverboy, directed by Kevin Bacon.

Tomei’s diverse credits include Anger Management, The Guru, Happy Accidents, What Women Want, Slums of Beverly Hills, Welcome to Sarajevo, The Perez Family, A Brother’s Kiss and Unhook the Stars, opposite Gena Rowlands, for which Tomei was honored by her peers with a Screen Actors Guild nomination.

On-stage, Tomei was seen last year on Broadway, opposite Al Pacino and Dianne Wiest, in Oscar Wilde’s Salome in the title role. Her previous theater credits include Nobel Prize-winning playwright Dario Fo’s We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!, Clifford Odets’ Waiting For Lefty and Rocket to the Moon, both directed by Joanne Woodward, among others. Tomei starred this summer in Noel Coward’s Design for Living at the Williamstown Theater Festival.

Tomei is a member of the Naked Angels Theater Company in New York City.