1980s on the set of
Raging Bull Moriarty made her film debut in
Martin Scorsese's
Raging Bull (1980), as
Vikki LaMotta, wife of boxer
Jake LaMotta, played by
Robert De Niro. She was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Later that year, 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. 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. Shortly afterwards, she guest-starred as Annalisa Gentili on
Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
2010–present In 2013, she played
Armand Assante's wife in
Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn and a sarcastic waitress in the
black comedy,
The Double opposite
Jesse Eisenberg and
Mia Wasikowska. 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 an appearance as
Michael Pitt's bitter, estranged mother in the
crime drama Rob the Mob. The same year she appeared as the co-owner of a house who shares a dark secret in
Deborah Twiss's
psychological thriller A Cry from Within 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 at the Jersey Shore Shorts Film Festival. Since then, Moriarty has regularly performed in both film and on television, with major roles in
Patti Cake$, an official selection of the
Sundance Film Festival and
Toronto International Film Festival, as well as the
NBC series
This Is Us, the
Ryan Murphy series
American Crime Story, the
Showtime series ''
I'm Dying Up Here, and City on a Hill''. ==Personal life==