Paul Sorvino, ‘Goodfellas’ Actor, Dies at 83
variety.comCarmel Dagan Staff WriterPaul Sorvino, who distinguished himself in a long line of stage and screen performances including “Goodfellas” and “Law & Order,” died Monday of natural causes, according to his rep.
He was 83.His wife, DeeDee Sorvino, posted on Instagram, saying “I am completely devastated The love of my life & the most wonderful man who has ever lived is gone.
I am heartbroken.”Sorvino, who was the father of actress Mira Sorvino, was perhaps best known for his role as Sgt. Frank Cerreta on NBC’s “Law & Order,” as Mafia don Pail Cicero in Martin Scorsese’s beloved gangster film “Goodfellas” and as Kissinger in Oliver Stone’s “Nixon.”Sorvino worked continually, with more than 170 credits and dozens of roles in recent years including guest appearances in “Godfather of Harlem,” “Bad Blood,” “Undercover Grandpa,” “The Goldbergs” and “Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders.” He was one of the motley crew of heavily made up villains, Lips Manlis, assembled for the highly stylized crime drama “Dick Tracy,” starring and directed by Warren Beatty.Beatty cast Sorvino in four of his five films as a director — in the Communist history film “Reds, in 1998 political satire “Bulworth,” in which he played the head of a large insurance company who wants a political favor from the senator portrayed by Beatty, and again in the ill-fated “Rules Don’t Apply.”In Stone’s “Nixon” Sorvino played Secretary of State and close Nixon confidant Henry Kissinger; the next year he played Fulgencio Capulet, patriarch of the Capulets, in Baz Luhrmann’s Miami-set take on”Romeo & Juliet.” He also played a mob boss who’s ruthlessly seeking the futuristic jet pack at the center of the story in 1991’s “The Rocketeer.”In 1982 Sorvino returned to the role of.
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