Paul Sorvino, who performed the position of gangster Paulie Cicero in traditional mob film Goodfellas, has died at the age of 83, a spokesperson for the actor stated on Monday.
Sorvino, additionally identified for portraying police sergeant Phil Cerreta on TV collection Law & Order within the Nineties, labored in movie and tv and on stage for greater than 50 years.
He died at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, of pure causes, the spokesperson stated.
“I’m fully devastated. The love of my life & essentially the most fantastic man who has ever lived is gone. I’m heartbroken,” his spouse, Dee Dee Sorvino, wrote on Twitter.
Born in Brooklyn in 1939, Sorvino studied music and initially needed to change into an opera singer earlier than he turned to performing.
His lengthy profession included roles in Broadway play That Championship Season and a 1982 movie adaptation. Other film credit included Dick Tracy, Reds and Nixon, wherein he performed Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
Martin Scorsese tapped Sorvino at age 50 to play Cicero, a quiet however formidable character primarily based on the real-life mobster Paul Vario, in 1990’s Goodfellas.
Actress Mira Sorvino (proper) and father Paul Sorvino at the premiere of ‘Reservation Road’ in the course of the Toronto International Film Festival in 2007. – Photo: AP
Sorvino had three youngsters, together with actor Mira Sorvino, who thanked her father when she accepted her Academy Award for 1995 movie Mighty Aphrodite.
“He has taught me all the pieces I learn about performing,” she stated at the time as he appeared on from the viewers and broke into tears.
On Monday, Mira Sorvino stated “my coronary heart is lease asunder” by her father’s loss of life.
“A lifetime of love and pleasure and knowledge with him is over,” she wrote on Twitter. “He was essentially the most fantastic father. I really like him a lot. I’m sending you like within the stars Dad as you ascend.” – Reuters
