Marisa Tomei Net Worth

Marisa Tomei's Quotes

• I don't prefer much of film over stage... The only thing I prefer is the paycheck.
• Singing really oxygenates your blood. You stretch your lungs and take in much more air into them than before. It's really good for your health.
• I feel like theatre gives me the grounding, and keeps me alive, basically. Film gives me the thrill, and it's like a one night stand. But I do enjoy being around people who love it so much.
• [on marriage and starting her own family] I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.
• [on her role in The Wrestler (2008)] What didn't appeal to me was, frankly, New Jersey, naked, winter!

Interesting Facts about Marisa Tomei

1. Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1991" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 43.
2. Attended Boston University.
3. Attended Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn, New York. Her brother, Adam Tomei, and Darren Aronofsky also attended this high school.
4. Older sister of actor Adam Tomei.
5. Has a tattoo of the Egyptian Eye of Ra (protection, good luck abundance) on her right foot.
6. In 2003, she played the title role in a revival of Oscar Wilde's "Salome" in an Actors Studio production, directed by Estelle Parsons, on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre; co-stars included Al Pacino, Dianne Wiest, and David Strathairn.
7. She is of Italian descent. Her family is from Tuscany, Sicily, Campania, and Calabria.
8. Before the 1993 Oscar ceremony, she told Entertainment Tonight (1981) that her biggest fear was that she would trip on the steps on her way to the stage. She did.
9. Revealed to Jon Stewart on The Daily Show (1996) that she sometimes travels under an Italian passport. (Oct 2004)
10. No relation to Concetta Tomei.
11. Holds dual United States and Italian citizenship.
12. Her mother was an English teacher at Cavallaro Junior High School in Brooklyn, New York.
13. Auditioned for the role of "Dorothy Boyd" in Jerry Maguire (1996).
14. In the early 1990s, she had a relationship with Robert Downey Jr. (her co-star in Chaplin (1992) and Only You (1994)). In 1999, she was with actor Dana Ashbrook and had a relationship with Frank Pugliese. She (as of 2009) now dates actor Logan Marshall-Green, who is twelve years her junior.
15. Until Captain America: Civil War (2016), she had never starred in a sequel or a prequel to a film.
16. One of People Magazine's Most Beautiful People 2009.
17. Godmother of Zoë Kravitz, daughter of Marisa's A Different World (1987) co-star Lisa Bonet.
18. Turned down the female lead in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) which went to Andie MacDowell.
19. While portraying roommates on A Different World (1987), she and co-star Lisa Bonet were roommates in real life.
20. Announced in 7 February 2005 edition of New York Times, she has signed to join the cast of Neil LaBute's "This Is How It Goes" at New York's Public Theatre, beginning previews, March 8, 2005, co-starring Ben Stiller. [February 2005]