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Concetta Tomei

Concetta Tomei

Actor · b. 1945 · Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA

Character actress Concetta Tomei was born on December 30, 1945, and raised in her hometown of Kenosha, Wisconsin, the only child of a policeman who was a talented artist on the sly. She came from a long line of educators and was likely drawn to that career at an influential age. She attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in education. After teaching school in a Milwaukee suburb for four years, however, she abruptly quit to pursue her acting dream. She became a student of the famed Goodman School of Drama in Chicago where she received a another degree, a Bachelor of Fine Arts, in theater arts. She started her professional career on the stock and repertory stages and gathered a formidable list of early credits appearing in such plays as "A Streetcar Named Desire, "Candida," "Blithe Spirit" and "The Corn Is Green." She made her debut on Broadway replacing Carole Shelley in "The Elephant Man" playing the actress/grande dame Mrs. Kendal. She continued in her role when a subsequent tour went out starring David Bowie. Seeking on-camera experience, she moved out West in the 1980s and found plentiful work on TV with her all-controlling, severe-looking femmes, which culminated in the critically acclaimed Vietnam War drama China Beach (1988) in which she played a hard-as-nails major. She continued with a host of guest parts on "L.A. Law," "Murphy Brown," "Picket Fences" and "Wings," among many others. Not readily known for her film work, she has nevertheless offered occasional arch support (since 1991) in such pictures as Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991), Twenty Bucks (1993), Out to Sea (1997) Deep Impact (1998), The Muse (1999) and View from the Top (2003). Another regular series TV role came with Providence (1999), in which she played a chain-smoking mom.

Series24

  • TV7.6

    Hollywood Squares

    1998 · 7 votes

  • TV7.8

    Star Trek: Voyager

    1995 · 1.2K votes

  • TV7.7

    Cold Case

    2003 · 461 votes

  • TV7.1

    Diagnosis: Murder

    1993 · 128 votes

  • TV7.2

    Touched by an Angel

    1994 · 188 votes

  • TV7.8

    The Closer

    2005 · 357 votes

  • TV6.7

    Elsbeth

    2024 · 137 votes

  • TV8.1

    Ghost Whisperer

    2005 · 1.9K votes

  • TV7.1

    The King of Queens

    1998 · 765 votes

  • TV7.0

    Numb3rs

    2005 · 453 votes

  • TV7.0

    L.A. Law

    1986 · 81 votes

  • TV7.2

    Nip/Tuck

    2003 · 539 votes

  • TV7.5

    Judging Amy

    1999 · 84 votes

  • TV5.5

    Falcon Crest

    1981 · 64 votes

  • TV7.9

    Arrested Development

    2003 · 1.8K votes

  • TV7.5

    Weeds

    2005 · 1K votes

  • TV6.9

    Wings

    1990 · 147 votes

  • TV5.7

    St. Elsewhere

    1982 · 93 votes

  • TV6.5

    Murphy Brown

    1988 · 93 votes

  • TV7.5

    Veep

    2012 · 545 votes

  • TV6.1

    Ellen

    1994 · 58 votes

  • TV
  • TV6.7

    Providence

    1999 · 26 votes

  • TV6.5

    7th Heaven

    1996 · 246 votes

Movies20

  • Movie6.3

    Deep Impact

    1998 · 3.5K votes

  • Movie5.6

    View from the Top

    2003 · 620 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Out to Sea

    1997 · 126 votes

  • Movie6.2
  • Movie5.7

    Twenty Bucks

    1993 · 68 votes

  • Movie4.8

    Gone But Not Forgotten

    2005 · 13 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Murder in Three Acts

    1986 · 79 votes

  • Movie5.2

    The Muse

    1999 · 157 votes

  • Movie5.0

    In Love and War

    1987 · 5 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie6.7

    Amy and the Angel

    1982 · 3 votes

  • Movie3.7

    The List

    2007 · 5 votes

  • Movie5.0

    Doubletake

    1985 · 7 votes

  • Movie5.7

    Reach

    2018 · 16 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie8.0

    One Special Victory

    1991 · 1 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie6.4

    Cyrano de Bergerac

    2008 · 4 votes

  • Movie5.8

    The Goodbye Bird

    1994 · 4 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Sin and Redemption

    1994 · 2 votes