What a stunner. Ray Liotta, the fantastic actor who made his name after co-starring in Field of Dreams in the 1990 Martin Scorsese crime movie Goodfellas, has died. He was 67 years old at the time.
He died in his sleep in the Dominican Republic, where he was filming Dangerous Waters, according to Deadline. More information will be accessible as soon as it is available.
Karsen, Liotta's daughter, is left behind. He and Jacy Nittolo were engaged to be married.
Liotta was making a comeback. The Many Saints of Newark, Marriage Story — for which he shared a 2020 Indie Spirit Award for ensemble — and No Sudden Move are among his recent credits. He finished Elizabeth Banks' Cocaine Bear and was set to act alongside Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley in the Working Title picture The Substance.
He's also going to executive produce the A&E docuseries Five Families, which follows the rise and fall of the Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo, and Lucchese families of the New York mafia.
While he is most known for his big-screen appearances, he also co-starred in the Apple TV+ series Black Bird with Taron Egerton, recurred on Prime Video's Hanna, and played alongside Jennifer Lopez in the NBC drama Shades of Blue from 2016 to 2018.
Liotta was a two-time SAG Award nominee for the 2015 miniseries Texas Rising and the 1998 telefilm The Rat Pack, in which he played Frank Sinatra opposite Don Cheadle, Joe Mantegna, and Angus Macfayden, and won a Primetime Emmy in 2005 for his guest appearance on ER.
From 1978 through 1981, he had a recurrent role as Joey Perrini in around three dozen episodes of the NBC soap Another World.
He received a Golden Globe nod for his "who's that?" performance in Jonathan Demme's Something Wild (1987) and then went on to portray banned Chicago White Sox hero Shoeless Joe Jackson alongside Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones in 1988's Field of Dreams. He subsequently went on to portray mobster Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, supporting Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci in what would be his career-defining role.
The ruggedly handsome, blue-eyed Liotta was a perfect Henry Hill, narrating a story of his rise to become a member of an organized crime gang, the one that pulled off the famous Lufthansa heist at John F. Kennedy International Airport in 1978, making off with more than $5 million in cash and jewels stored in the German airline's air cargo building. The film, which Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese adapted from his novel, was nominated for six Academy Awards, with Pesci winning the only one.
Hannibal, Narc, Blow, and Copland was among his other famous parts.
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