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 Dont Tell Mom the Babysitters 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.

Filmy nedostupný z Concetta Tomei

Amy and the Angel

Mrs. Mixner

Film 1982

Murder in Three Acts

Janet Crisp

Film 1986

One Special Victory

Film 1991

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

Mom

Film 1991

In Love and War

Doyen Salsig

Film 1987

Doubletake

Hazel Carter

Film 1985

The Betty Ford Story

Jan

Film 1987

Cyrano de Bergerac

Roxane's Duenna

Film 2008

Sin and Redemption

Marina Preston

Film 1994

The Muse

Nurse Rennert

Film 1999

View from the Top

Mrs. Stewart

Film 2003

China Beach: Pilot

Maj. Lila Garreau

Film 1988

Sin & Redemption

Marina Preston

Film 1994

The Goodbye Bird

Victoria Van Borins

Film 1994

Reach

Doris

Film 2018

Gone But Not Forgotten

Rita

Film 2005

Deep Impact

Patricia Ruiz

Film 1998

Twenty Bucks

Sam's Mother

Film 1993

For Muriel

Elaine

Film 2018

televizní seriál nedostupný z Concetta Tomei

Falcon Crest

Dr. Estelle Kramer

Tv 1981

L.A. Law

Susan Hauber

Tv 1986

Ghost Whisperer

Margaret

Tv 2005

Judging Amy

Joanne Collins

Tv 1999

Providence

Lynda Hansen

Tv 1999

Star Trek: Voyager

Minister Odala

Tv 1995

China Beach

Lila Garreau

Tv 1988

Cold Case

Violet Golding (2008)

Tv 2003

Wings

Sylvia

Tv 1990

The King of Queens

Joyce

Tv 1998

7th Heaven

Mrs. Hampton

Tv 1996

Diagnosis: Murder

Sister Regina

Tv 1993

Lush Life

Tv 1996

Murphy Brown

Doris Dial

Tv 1988

The Mick

Evelyn

Tv 2017

The Mick

Tippy Pemberton

Tv 2017

Weeds

Celia's Mother

Tv 2005

Arrested Development

Mrs. Livingston

Tv 2003

The Burden of Proof

Clara Stern

Tv 1992

Ellen

Professor Bass

Tv 1994

Murder One

Jeanette Rennick

Tv 1995

Second Time Around

Christia Muse

Tv 2004

Veep

Connie DiBenedetto

Tv 2012

Abby's

Nemo

Tv 2019

Stars in the House

Self

Tv 2020

Touched by an Angel

Kate Carpenter

Tv 1994

The Closer

Mrs. Rawley

Tv 2005

Space Force

Rep. Pitosi

Tv 2020

Numb3rs

Dr. Sarah Kemple

Tv 2005