The actor died in his sleep whereas within the Dominican Republic, the place he was filming a film, his publicist confirmed.
WASHINGTON — Ray Liotta, the actor greatest identified for taking part in mobster Henry Hill in “Goodfellas” and baseball participant Shoeless Joe Jackson in “Area of Goals,” has died. He was 67.
A supply on the Dominican Republic’s Nationwide Forensic Science Institute who was not licensed to talk to the media confirmed the dying of Ray Liotta and stated his physique was taken to the Cristo Redentor morgue. The Hollywood Reporter and NBC Information cited representatives for Liotta who stated he died in his sleep Wednesday night time. He was within the Dominican Republic to movie a brand new film.
The Newark, New Jersey, native was born in 1954 and adopted at age six months out of an orphanage by a township clerk and an auto components proprietor. Although he principally grew up taking part in sports activities, together with baseball, throughout his senior 12 months of highschool, the drama trainer on the faculty requested him if he needed to be in a play, which he agreed to on a lark. And it caught: He’d go on to check performing on the College of Miami. After commencement, he acquired his first massive break on the cleaning soap opera “One other World.”
The Newark, New Jersey, native was born in 1954 and adopted at age six months out of an orphanage by a township clerk and an auto components proprietor. Although he principally grew up taking part in sports activities, together with baseball, throughout his senior 12 months of highschool, the drama trainer on the faculty requested him if he needed to be in a play, which he agreed to on a lark. And it caught: He’d go on to check performing on the College of Miami. After commencement, he acquired his first massive break on the cleaning soap opera “One other World.”
Liotta’s first massive movie position was in Jonathan Demme’s “One thing Wild” as Melanie Griffith’s character’s hotheaded ex-convict husband Ray. The flip earned him a Golden Globe nomination. A couple of years later, he would get the memorable position of the ghost of Shoeless Joe Jackson in “Area of Goals.”
His most iconic position, as actual life mobster Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas” got here shortly after. He, and Scorsese, needed to combat for it although, with a number of auditions and pleas to the studio to solid the nonetheless relative unknown.