Cathy Moriarty

Cathy Moriarty (born November 29, 1960) is an American actress whose career spans over 30 years. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Raging Bull (1980). She also starred in films, including Neighbors, White of the Eye, Soapdish, Casper, Analyze That, and The Bounty Hunter. She starred in television roles, such as Tales from the Crypt (in which she won a CableACE Award for Best Actress in a Dramatic Series), Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
== Early life ==
Moriarty was born in The Bronx, the daughter of Irish Catholic immigrants Catherine, a homemaker, and John Moriarty, a warehouse worker.[1] When she was 18 years old, her friends urged her to enter a bathing-beauty contest at a bar:
== Career ==
Moriarty made her film debut in Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull (1980), as Vikki LaMotta, wife of Jake (Robert De Niro). She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Later, Moriarty played John Belushi's destructive, sultry neighbor in Neighbors, a film adaptation of Thomas Berger's novel of the same name. In 1982, she was severely injured in an automobile accident and required back surgery.[3]
In 1985, Moriarty agreed to co-star with Jack Nicholson in The Two Jakes. However, after one day of shooting its production halted. Although the film was eventually released in 1990, Moriarty was no longer connected with the production.[5] Moriarty returned to acting in 1987. Her first role since Neighborswas in the British thriller film White of the Eye, in which Moriarty played the wife of David Keith's character. Two years later, she appeared in the CBS series Wiseguy episode "Reunion".
Moriarty began the decade with roles in the thriller film Burndown, Arnold Schwarzenegger's Kindergarten Cop and the soap opera parody Soapdish. She also appeared in the musical drama The Mambo Kings and the horror anthologyTV series Tales from the Crypt, where Moriarty's performance earned her a Best Actress in a Dramatic Series CableACE Award. Her last performance of the year was a hard-as-nails prostitute in the screwball comedy film, The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag. In 1993, Moriarty starred as John Goodman's wisecracking girlfriend and a film goddess in Joe Dante's period comedy Matinee, and had supporting roles in the comedies Another Stakeout (the sequel of 1987's Stakeout) and Me and the Kid. The following year, she guest-starred as half of the husband-wife con team in Universal Television's made-for-TV film Another Midnight Run. The actress' next role was the flirty barfly in Peter Medak's adventure film, Pontiac Moon (1994).
Moriarty played Debra Winger's friend in the romantic comedy Forget Paris(1995), followed by the vindictive Carrigan Crittenden in the live action filmCasper. Shortly afterwards she starred with Andrew Dice Clay in the CBS series Bless This House, which was cancelled after 16 episodes during the 1996 season. That year Moriarty also played Hedy Burress's mother in Foxfire, the film adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' novel. The next year, she played the alcoholic mother of a successful boxer in Opposite Corners; the mother of two sons (one a police officer and the other a crack addict) in A Brother's Kiss; a former exotic dancer and Brad Hunt's aunt in Dream with the Fishes; Evan Rachel Wood's seriously-ill, alcoholic mother in Digging to China; Michael Rapaport's aunt in Cop Land and Alyssa Milano's mother in Hugo Pool.
Moriarty voiced characters in the animated TV series Stories from My Childhoodepisodes "The Golden Rooster" and "The Wild Swans" and the animated series Recess episode "Kids in the Mist". Other appearances included Hilary Duff's witch aunt in the direct-to-video film, Casper Meets Wendy; Randy Quaid's wife in the direct-to-video film, P.U.N.K.S., and Sharon Stone's friend in Gloria (a 1999 remake of the 1980 film written and directed by John Cassavetes). Roles followed in Crazy in Alabama, a film adaptation of Mark Childress's 1993 novel of the same name; New Waterford Girl, a Canadian comedy-drama, and the satirical film But I'm a Cheerleader. Moriarty played an FBI agent in Red Team, an abusive adoptive mother in the family film Prince of Central Park and a woman who fears death in the short film Next Stop, Eternity. Other roles included a widow suspected of killing her husband in an episode of Law & Order, crime boss Patti LoPresti in the Mafia comedy film (and sequel to 1999's Analyze This) Analyze That and a controlling mother in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. In 2010, Moriarty played a bookie who sends two thugs to kill the main characters (Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler) in the romantic-action-comedy film The Bounty Hunter. On July 18, 2010, the Long Island International Film Expo honored the actress with its Long Island Creative Achievement Award.[6] Shortly afterwards, she guest-starred as Annalisa Gentili on an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. The next year, Moriarty appeared as a nurse in the film 1320. In 2013 she played Armand Assante's wife in Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn and a sarcastic waitress in a black comedy, The Double. She returned to Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Lieutenant Toni Howard for two episodes: season 14's "Poisoned Motive" and season 15's "Amaro's One-Eighty".
Moriarty made a cameo appearance as Michael Pitt's bitter, estranged mother in the crime drama Rob the Mob. Recent roles included the co-owner of a house who shares a dark secret in Deborah Twiss's psychological thriller A Cry from Within (Sebastien)[7] and the title character in Ante Novakovic's short film, Tammy, about a mother-son relationship which evolves over the course of a Sunday visit. Moriarty's performance earned a nomination for Best Actress in a Short (medium short) at the Jersey Shore Shorts Film Festival.[8]
== Personal life ==
In 1981, Moriarty married theatrical manager Carmine D'Anna and moved into a home in Malibu, California. On April 2, 1992, it was reported that Moriarty and D'Anna were divorcing and D'Anna sought $1 million under California's community property laws.[9]
On August 28, 1999, Moriarty and financier Joseph Gentile[10] married on Long Island. She gave birth to twins Catherine Patricia and Joseph John on September 11, 2000,[11] and on November 15, 2001, the couple's third child, Annabella Rose, was born.[12]
== Filmography ==
=== Film ===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
1980	Raging Bull 	Vickie LaMotta 	See awards section
1981	Neighbors 	Ramona 	
1987	White of the Eye 	Joan White 	
1990	Kindergarten Cop 	Jillian 	
1990	Burndown 	Patti Smart 	
1991	Soapdish 	Montana Moorehead / Nurse Nan	
1992	The Mambo Kings 	Lanna Lake 	
1992	The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag 	Reba Bush 	
1993	Matinee 	Ruth Corday / Carole 	
1993	Another Stakeout 	Lu Delano 	
1993	Me and the Kid 	Rose 	
1994	Pontiac Moon 	Lorraine 	
1995	Forget Paris 	Lois 	
1995	Casper 	Carrigan Crittenden 	
1996	Foxfire 	Martha Wirtz 	
1997	Women Without Implants 	 	Short film
1997	Opposite Corners 	Kathy Donatello 	
1997	A Brother's Kiss 	Doreen 	
1997	Dream with the Fishes 	Aunt Elise 	
1997	Digging to China 	Mrs. Frankovitz 	
1997	Cop Land 	Rose Donlan 	
1997	Hugo Pool 	Minerva 	
1998	Casper Meets Wendy 	Gerty 	Video
1999	P.U.N.K.S. 	Mrs. Utley 	Video
1999	Crazy in Alabama 	Earlene Bullis 	
1999	But I'm a Cheerleader 	Mary Brown 	
2000	Red Team 	Stephanie Dobson 	See awards section
2000	Prince of Central Park 	Mrs. Ardis 	
2001	Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure	Ruby 	Video
2002	Analyze That 	Patti LoPresti 	
2010	The Bounty Hunter 	Irene 	
2013	Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn 	Sarah Baldano 	
2013	The Double 	Kiki 	
2014	The Story of Milo & Annie 	Lynda 	
2014	A Cry from Within 	Alice 	
2014	Tammy 	Tammy 	Short film
2017	Patti Cake$ 	Nana 	
=== Television ===
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes
1989 	Wiseguy 	Denise 	Episode: "Reunion"
1992 	Tales from the Crypt 	Alison Peters 	Episode: "Séance" 
See awards section
1994 	Another Midnight Run 	Helen Bishop 	TV film
1995 	Bless This House 	Alice Clayton 	Main role (16 episodes)
1995 	'Twas the Night Before Bumpy 	Destructette (uncredited)	TV special
1997–99	Hey Arnold! 	Tish Wittenberg (voice) 	Episodes: "Coach Wittenberg," "Best Man," "Synchronized Swimming"
2000 	The Hunger 	Maris 	Episode: "Bottle of Smoke"
2001 	Law & Order 	Lorraine Corbin 	Episode: "For Love or Money"
2005 	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 	Denise Eldridge 	Episode: "Intoxicated"
2010 	Law & Order: Criminal Intent 	Annalisa Gentillo 	Episodes: "Love on Ice" and "The Mobster Will See You Now"
2013–14	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 	Lt. Toni Howard 	Episodes: "Poisoned Motive" and "Amaro's One-Eighty"
2018 	This Is Us 	The Super 	Episode: "Clooney"
2018 	The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story	Vivian Oliva 	2 episodes
== Awards and nominations ==
Year	Work 	Award 	Category 	Result
1981	Raging Bull 	NSFC Award 	Best Supporting Actress 	Nominated
1981	Raging Bull 	Golden Globe Award 	Best Supporting Actress 	Nominated
1981	Raging Bull 	Golden Globe Award 	New Star of the Year - Actress 	Nominated
1981	Raging Bull 	Academy Award 	Best Supporting Actress 	Nominated
1982	Raging Bull 	BAFTA film award 	Best Supporting Actress 	Nominated
1993	Tales from the Crypt	CableACE Award 	Best Actress in a Dramatic Series 	Won
2001	Red Team 	DVD Exclusive Awards 	Best Actress 	Nominated
2010	Honoree 	Long Island Creative Achievement Award	Long Island International Film Expo	Won
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