Marisa Tomei

Some Lesser Known Facts About Marisa Tomei

• During her stay in Boston, she worked as a waitress at Roma’s, an American steakhouse chain.

• She learned dance at the Albee School of Dance in New York.

• Some of the TV series in which she appeared are As the World Turns (1984-1985), ABC Afterschool Specials (1987), and A Different World (1987-1988).
  

• Some of the films in which she appeared are Chaplin (1992), Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), and Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019).

  

• Some of the plays in which she appeared are Wait Until Dark (1998), Salome (2003), and The Realistic Joneses (2014).

  

• She ranked number 18 on the FHM’s 100 Sexiest Women List in 2009.

• She appeared on the cover of several lifestyle and fashion magazines such as Paper, Redbook, Shape, and Vogue Greece.

  

• She featured in two documentary TV series which dealt with genealogical research such as Who Do You Think You Are? (2012) on BBC and Finding Your Roots (2020) on PBS. She found out Hollywood actress Julianne Moore was her cousin in the series Finding Your Roots.
  

• She discovered in the TV series Who Do You Think You Are? (2012) that her great-grandfather Francesco Leopoldo Bianchi was shot dead by the mafia in a bar in Tuscany in 1911.

• She drinks alcohol occasionally.

  

• She is an avid lover of dogs.