Oscar Winner Marisa Tomei Guests on ELLEN 1/6

Marisa Tomei will be a guest on the Ellen DeGeneres Show on Tuesday January 6th, for complete times and stations in your area visit the official show site by clicking here.

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 Academy Award® nomnation.

Marisa can currently be seen in the acclaimed film The Wrestler, as well as on DVD alongside Ethan Hawke and Philip Seymour Hoffman in Sidney Lumet's jewel heist drama, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead for which she received an Independent Spirit Award nomination.

She is starred in Will Eno's Oh the Humanity and Other Good Intentions opposite Brian Hutchison at Off-Broadway's Flea Theatre and just completed filming War, Inc a political satire written by and also starring John Cusack. Tomei's diverse credits include MTC's Top Girls, Factotum, Loverboy, Wild Hogs, Marilyn Hotchkiss, Alfie, Charm School, Anger Management, The Guru, Happy Accidents, What Women Want, Slums of Beverly Hills, Welcome to Sarajevo, The Perez Family, A Brother's Kiss, Danika, and Unhook the Stars opposite Gena Rowlands, for which she was honored by her peers with a Screen Actor's Guild nomination. On stage, Tomei was last seen 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 Odet's Waiting for Lefty and Rocket to the Moon, both directed by Joanne Woodward, among others.

Tomei also starred 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.

The Ellen DeGeneres Show" returned for its sixth season on Monday, September 8th and unveiled its brand new state-of the-art studio on the Warner Bros. Studio lot while being produced and broadcast for the first time in High Definition (HD). The show returns having just won four Daytime Emmys including Outstanding Talk Show Host for the fourth year in a row. "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" has now earned an impressive 25 Daytime Emmy Awards since its inception in 2003.

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