Ray Liotta, the star of Goodfellas, is 67 years old

Ray Liottathe extraordinary American actor known for starring in the film by Martin Scorsese The great ones Men and in The dream mandied at age 67.

The actor passed away in his sleep in the Dominican Republic, where he was filming the film Dangerous Water. The causes of the actor’s disappearance are not yet clear. Liotta leaves behind a daughter, Karsen, and her partner Jacy Nittolo, whom she will have to move to in the next few months.

In recent years, Ray Liotta’s career has been in great resurgence as the actor recently starred The many saints of New Jersey, prequel film of the popular television series The Sopranosthe Noah Baumbach film on Netflix Wedding story At No. Suddenly Stir. In recent months he has finished filming Cocaine BearElizabeth Banks’ new film, At he must act in the film The Substance by Coralie Fargeat (Revenge) with Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley.

Born in Newark, New Jersey, on December 18, 1954, Ray was adopted just 6 months by the Vidimarli-Liotta family. He studied at the “University of Miami”, where the actor became his friend Steven Bauer, with whom he would later have the first major role of his film career. In fact, he worked in soap operas, TV movies and musicals, in always different roles, until 1986, thanks to Bauer’s then -wife, Melanie Griffith, he landed the role of Ray Sinclair in Something overwhelmingwhere he plays the role of Lulu’s psychotic and violent ex -wife, played by Griffith herself, and where she earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

After this debut, Liotta refused similar interpretations to accept even small roles in comedies and thrillers, such as Nick and Gino At The dream man. In 1990 Martin Scorsese wanted him for the film Those good men in the role of the main character, Henry Hill, an Italian-Irishman who tries to make his way into the American mafia, a role that imposes him on audiences and critics and they appreciate his gifts as a charismatic actor; after this interpretation, in order not to be a character actor, he again chose a different role: a mad cop in Abuse of powera widower who writes advertising jingles A wife for dada military rebel in Escape from Absolom.

Although her popularity was mainly associated with the early nineties, which saw her emerge as a gender symbol, Liotta continued to collaborate with directors such as Guy Ritchie (Revolver), Ridley Scott (Hannibal) and Ted Demme (Blow up). He gave the voice to Tommy Vercetti, the star of the video game GTA Vice City and also gave the character of the face Billy is handsome in mode Zombie of video games Call of Duty: Black Ops II. On August 12, 2014 he appeared as the star of the video Lovers on the Sun by David Guetta on the DJ’s own channel.

Source: Deadline