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Although the causes of the actor’s death are unknown, Liotta’s colleagues and workers assure that the actor was staying with his fiancee in a hotel in the Dominican Republic while filming a new movie. The renowned actor, who won an Emmy Award in 2004 for his role in the NBC drama ‘ER’, was remembered by artists such as Robert de Niro and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Hollywod actor Ray Liotta, known for roles as Henry Hill in “Goodfellas” or playing baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson in “Field of Dreams,” died at the age of 67. He is also widely recognized for his roles in such films as ‘The Many Saints of Newark’ and ‘Something Wild’.
Although details of the cause of his death are not known, the actor’s publicist, Jen Allen, He assured that Liotta was in the Dominican Republic on the set of the film ‘Dangerous Waters’, in which he had a leading role.
It was an official from the National Institute of Forensic Sciences of the Dominican Republic who confirmed the death of Ray Liotta, after his body was found lifeless by an emergency services team that entered the hotel.
According to the official who spoke to Reuters, Liotta’s body was transferred to the Santo Domingo forensic institute.
#LAST MINUTE Ray Liotta, the actor who starred in the 1990 New York mafia movie classic “Goodfellas”, died at the age of 67 in the Dominican Republic, where he was filming a movie, US media reported TMZ and Deadline #AFP pic.twitter.com/gtRTfLoV3k
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Who was Ray Liotta?
Born on December 18, 1954 in Newark, New Jersey, United States, Liotta was adopted from an orphanage by a city employee at six months old.
Before the media he always defended the idea that it came from Italy, but, As he set out to find his biological parents, he realized that he was actually Scottish.
Although he spent most of his adolescence training in various sports, including baseball, It was a teacher at his high school who asked him if he wanted to participate in a play. Liotta agreed without much thought, and that would be the small seed that would later bear fruit in his extensive artistic life.
Arriving at university, and with the idea of fleeing any career that included mathematics, the young empirical actor chose drama as his profession at the University of Miami.
He continued to appear in institutional plays, and it was not until after his graduation that He got an artistic representative with whom he achieved his first big role in the telenovela ‘Otro mundo’, in which he played a secondary character.
But it would have been, some time later, with the role of Ran Sinclair, from the movie ‘Something Wild’, that Liotta managed to be nominated for the Golden Globe awards.
Liotta has a daughter, Karsen, with his ex-wife Michelle Grace and was engaged to Jacy Nittolo at the time of his death.
The actor had several recently finished and unreleased projects, such as ‘Cocaine Bear’, directed by Elizabeth Banks, which is supposed to be released in February of next year; and the Apple TV+ platform police series ‘Black Bird’, developed by Dennis Lehane and starring Taron Egerton and Paul Walter Hauser. Another movie was also due to start soon: ‘The Substance’, with Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley.
“Business is tough, no matter where you are in your career. There’s always some reason for them to say no, that part is horrible… But the work itself – making people believe that what they’re seeing is actually happening – is still a challenge, putting that puzzle together. You know, what can I say, I still like to play pretend. And it sure is a fun way to make a living,” Liotta said in 2012.
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