A surprise. Ray Liotta, the fantastic actor who came out of his career in the 1990 Martin Scorsese crime classic Goodfellas after starring in Field of Dreams, has died. He was 67 years old.
Deadline hears that he died while sleeping in the Dominican Republic, where he was shooting the movie Dangerous Waters. We will have more details when they are available.
Liotta leaves behind a daughter, Karsen. He was engaged to marry Jacy Nittolo.
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Liotta was in a great resurgence. Recent twists include The Many Saints of Newark, Marriage Story, for which he shared an Indie Spirit Award 2020 as a whole, and No Sudden Move. She finished Cocaine Bear, directed by Elizabeth Banks, and was to star in The Substance starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley.
He was also recently the executive producer of the documentary series Five Families of A&E, about the dramatic rise and fall of the Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo and Lucchese families of the New York Mafia.
Although best known for her roles on the big screen, she also starred with Taron Egerton in the Apple TV + Black Bird series, starred in Prime Video’s Hanna, and starred opposite Jennifer Lopez in the NBC drama Shades of Blue 2016-18.
Liotta won a Primetime Emmy in 2005 for her stay as a guest on ER and was twice nominated for the SAG Award for the 2015 Texas Rising miniseries and the 1998 TV movie The Rat Pack, in which she played Frank Sinatra. alongside Don Cheadle, Joe Mantegna and Angus. Macfayden.
Among his first on-screen roles was recurring as Joey Perrini in some three dozen episodes of the 1978-81 NBC Another World soap.
He had his “who is thar?” did Something Wild (1987) directed by Jonathan Demme and earned a Golden Globe nomination, and then played the banned Chicago White Sox Shoeless superstar Joe Jackson alongside KEvin Costner and James Earl Jones in Field of Dreams of 1988. Then he quickly went on to play gangster Henry Hill in Scorsese’s Goodfellas, alongside Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci in what was to be the defining role of his career.
The handsome blue-eyed Liotta was a perfect Henry Hill, telling a story of his growth in an organized crime gang, which led to the famous Lufthansa robbery at John F. Kennedy International Airport in 1978. with more than $ 5 million in cash and jewelry stored in the airline building of the German airline. The film, which Nicholas Pileggi adapted with Scorsese from his book, was nominated for six Oscars, and Pesci achieved his only victory.
His other memorable roles include Hannibal, Narc, Blow and Copland.
Born on December 18, 1954 in Newark, NJ, Liotta studied acting at the University of Miami before securing a role in another world. He participated in telefilms and was invited to St. Elsewhere in 1983 before starring in Casablanca, a short-lived 1983 NBC prequel to the classic film.
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Erik Pedersen contributed to this report.