LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — Paul Sorvino, who played the position of gangster Paulie Cicero in traditional mob film “Goodfellas,” has died at the age of 83, a spokesperson for the actor said on Monday.
Sorvino, also identified for portraying police sergeant Phil Cerreta on Tv set series “Legislation & Get” in the 1990s, worked in film and tv and on stage for far more than 50 many years.
He died at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, of natural brings about, the spokesperson reported.
“I am completely devastated. The really like of my lifestyle & the most fantastic gentleman who has ever lived is long gone. I am heartbroken,” his spouse, Dee Dee Sorvino, wrote on Twitter.
Born in Brooklyn in 1939, Sorvino examined new music and originally wished to grow to be an opera singer before he turned to acting.
His extensive vocation involved roles in Broadway perform “That Championship Year” and a 1982 film adaptation. Other movie credits bundled “Dick Tracy,” “Reds” and “Nixon,” in which he played Secretary of Point out Henry Kissinger.
Martin Scorsese tapped Sorvino at age 50 to participate in Cicero, a tranquil but formidable character based on the true-daily life mobster Paul Vario, in 1990’s “Goodfellas.”
Sorvino had 3 small children, together with actor Mira Sorvino, who thanked her father when she acknowledged her Academy Award for 1995 film “Mighty Aphrodite.”
“He has taught me every little thing I know about performing,” she claimed at the time as he seemed on from the viewers and broke into tears.