By Lisa Richwine
LOSANGELES – Paul Sorvino, who performed the position of gangster Paulie Cicero in basic mob film “Goodfellas,” has died on the age of 83, a spokesperson for the actor mentioned on Monday.
Sorvino, additionally recognized for portraying police sergeant Phil Cerreta on TV collection “Regulation & Order” within the Nineties, labored in movie and tv and on stage for greater than 50 years.
He died on the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, of pure causes, the spokesperson mentioned.
“I'm utterly devastated. The love of my life & probably 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 wished to change into an opera singer earlier than he turned to appearing.
His lengthy profession included roles in Broadway play “That Championship Season” and a 1982 movie adaptation. Different film credit included “Dick Tracy,” “Reds” and “Nixon,” by which 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.”
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 every little thing I find out about appearing,” she mentioned on the time as he appeared on from the viewers and broke into tears.
On Monday, Mira Sorvino mentioned “my coronary heart is hire 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 probably the most fantastic father. I like him a lot. I’m sending you're keen on within the stars Dad as you ascend.”
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