Concetta Tomei

Known for ActingBorn 1945-12-30 (age 80)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Ghost Whisperer

Arrested Development

The Closer

One Special Victory

Cold Case

Star Trek: Voyager

Murder One

Veep

Hollywood Squares

Weeds

Judging Amy

Lush Life

China Beach

Picket Fences

The Mick

Nip/Tuck

Touched by an Angel

The King of Queens

Abby's

Numb3rs

Second Time Around

Elsbeth

Diagnosis: Murder

Kitchen Confidential

L.A. Law

Max Headroom

Space Force

Wings

Providence

Amy and the Angel

Cyrano de Bergerac

Madman of the People

7th Heaven

Murphy Brown

Deep Impact

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

Ellen

Sin and Redemption

Reach

The Goodbye Bird

Twenty Bucks

Murder in Three Acts

View from the Top

St. Elsewhere

Falcon Crest

The Muse

Gone But Not Forgotten

In Love and War