The American actress Marisa Tomei is best known for the portrayal of Marcy Thompson in an American TV soap opera As the World Turns and as Maggie Lauten in the NBC sitcom A Different World.
The 53 years old lady was born on the 4th of December, 1964, in Brooklyn, New York, USA, to parents, mother Adelaide "Addie" Bianchi and father Gary A. Tomei. Her father was a trial lawyer while her mother was an English Teacher. She has a younger brother, Adam Tomei, who is also an actor.
The lady was brought up by her paternal grandparents in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn. Even if she is an American, she is of Italian descent as her parents were from Tuscany, Sicily, Calabria, and Campania.
She received her Bachelor's degree from the Edward R. Murrow High School in 1982. After her graduation, she was also enrolled in Boston University for around a year.
Marisa was captivated by the Broadway shows during her childhood and since early age wanted to take up acting as her career. During her junior high school, she portrayed the role of Hedy LaRue in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying as a part of her school production show.
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Marisa who is 5 feet 4 inches tall in her height, loves singing during her free time, loves reading books, and novels.
The actress has dated a lot of guys in her past as she has a number of dating relationships to talk about. She was first seen with the actor Robert Downey Jr. in 1993 but they got separated early on. Later, she was seen with Dana Ashbrook but, with him too, she couldn't secure a long-term relationship.
After that, her love affair grew up with Frank Pugliese with whom she has been for as long as three years. But, with an extra affair with Christian Slater, her romance with Frank turned disastrous. From 2006 to 2008, Maris could be seen with Nicholas Carpenter while after that, she was in a long-term relationship with her boyfriend, Logan Marshall-Green.
She broke up with Logan in 2012 after four years of her relationship. She stayed single for around a year and in 2014, she again found love with the How I Met Your Mother star, Josh Radnor. But, same as the other relationships, she broke up with him.
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Currently, Marisa Tomei enjoys her single life without being married or being in any kind of other relationship. The reason for her not getting married until the age of 53 laid in her career. In an interview, she also stated that she was not a big fan of marriage and that she was confused why women needed to have children to be seen as complete human beings.
Marisa started her career with several auditions and got her role in the TV series As the World Turns in 1986. She appeared in the show as Maggie Lauten alongside other famed stars of that time, Julianne Moore, Elizabeth Hubbard, and Meg Ryan.
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With her trademark sidekick roles and her breathless voice, Tomei soon came to authority and played in as much as 78 movies adding 78 acting credits to her name. She gained recognition for the movies and TV sitcoms such as The Big Short, Empire, Cyrus, Top Girls, The Wrestler, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Rescue Me, In the Bedroom, What Women Want, Slums of Beverly Hills, and so on.
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For her role in The Wrestler as Cassidy alongside Mickey Rourke and Evan Rachel Wood, she has been nominated for as many as 18 award shows. Out of 18, she was able to bag 11 awards from different associations. Along with one Oscar Award, she has a total of around 23 wins and around 51 award nominations.
Marisa Tomei's net worth is estimated to be around $20 million as of 2018. She earns a pretty decent amount of salary from her career in the entertainment industry.
For her role in My Cousin Vinny in 1992, she was paid just around $250,000 but for her role in Only You, two years later, she was paid $2 million to star in the movie.
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With a huge amount of money, she is sure to have been living a lavish lifestyle. She has several homes around the US. She has a condo in Greenwich Village which is currently up for sale. The condo has been tagged a price of around $7.5 million as it is made on 2300 square feet of land. The condo has two bedrooms and two bathrooms with a 550 square foot living and dining room on a large white marble fireplace and dark hardwood floors.
The house also includes an office and a library. Just after that, the master suite makes its way with a luxurious marble fireplace, built-in bookshelves, and a 200 square foot dressing room with a vintage-style bathroom. On a similar note, the actress Cameron Diaz also sold her fifth-floor pied a Terre in early 2016 for $4.25 million from the same apartment.
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Another home of hers in New York City's East Village Neighborhood was also listed on sale in the market in 2017. The house was listed for an asking price of around $6.9 million. The house is built o a 6400 square feet of land with a total of 14 bedrooms and six baths. Further details of the sales of this house are not known to the public.
For her ride, Marisa has chosen the classic supercar, the Audi A6 Avant costing around $55K in the US Market. Apart from that, she also has the comfortable SUV Volkswagen Tiguan costing $30K. Besides, she also likes to ride in her $80K SUV Lincoln Navigator. With all that, she has two other supercars, BMW 5 series and the Jaguar XE.
The actress is not as active as other stars on social media platforms such as Twitter and Instagram. She has around 471K followers on her Instagram while on her Twitter, she has around 93.8K followers.