The 100 Greatest Brooklynites of All Time: 60 to 51
Who doesn’t love Marisa Tomei, right? Especially for that time she played herself on Seinfeld? Best of all, she has a great story: after winning an Oscar for her hyper-Brooklynized performance in My Cousin Vinny, she totally reinvented herself as a serious actress in the aughts with appearances in movies like In the Bedroom, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, and The Wrestler. Raised in Midwood, Tomei attended Andries Hudde Junior High, and graduated from Murrow.