Washington, Europe Brief News – American actor Ray Liotta, who was known for his role in 1990 blockbuster crime film ‘Goodfellas’, died in his sleep at the age of 67, media reports said.
The actor was working on the movie Dangerous Waters in the Dominican Republic when he died in his sleep.
He is survived by his 23-year-old daughter, Karsen, whom he shares with ex-wife Michelle Grace. He was engaged to Jacy Nittolo.
The New Jersey native is best known for his role as Henry Hill in 1990’s Goodfellas.
In September 2021, Liotta looked back on the movie that helped skyrocket his career, telling The Guardian that he never planned on becoming an actor until a girl he was interested in told him to audition for school plays. “I thought I’d be in construction,” he confessed.
Before Goodfellas, Liotta received a Golden Globe nomination for playing Ray Sinclair in 1986’s Something Wild. More recently, he appeared in Noah Baumbach‘s Marriage Story and starred alongside Jennifer Lopez in the NBC drama Shades of Blue. The police procedural ran for three seasons between 2016 and 2018.
“I was in movies [and] when I started, if you were doing a television show or commercials or something, you were at the end of the line,” Liotta told IndieWire at the 2018 ATX Festival, reflecting on how he landed on the small screen.
“The films were drying up and these people starting going into [TV]. Karl Malden — an unbelievable actor who was in On the Waterfront — he’s doing Streets of San Francisco, but it was toward the end of his career.”
