Vale: Ray Liotta

Actor Ray Liotta, best known for Goodfellas, Field of Dreams and Shades of Blue has died, aged 67.

He died in his sleep while he was in the Dominican Republic shooting an upcoming film, Dangerous Waters.

Liotta was born in New Jersey and studied acting at the University of Miami. After moving to New York City, he landed his first role in the soap opera Another World from 1978-1981. He then moved to Los Angeles to break into the film industry, and he got his first role in the 1983 drama The Lonely Lady. He also appeared in the crime series Our Family Honor and the short-lived Casablanca prequel series.

He shot to stardom in Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas in 1990. A year earlier, he appeared in Field of Dreams, opposite Kevin Costner in the seminal baseball film. His first major role was in Something Wild in 1986.

His other films included Cop Land, Hannibal, Blow, Observe, Report, The Place Beyond the Pines, Wild Hogs and Crossing Over.

Liotta won an Emmy for guest actor in 2005 for an appearance on ER, and he also had roles on Frasier, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Texas Rising, Hanna and Modern Family. He starred opposite Jennifer Lopez in police series, Shades of Blue.

His upcoming projects included Elizabeth Banks’ Cocaine Bear, set to release in 2023; a comedy starring Charlie Day that was formerly known as El Tonto; Dangerous Waters and The Substance and he will appear in Apple TV+’s true crime series Black Bird, starring Taron Edgerton and Paul Walter Hauser.

Source: Variety