Ray Liotta: Summary

Recent Role:: Guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

Gender:: Male

Birthday:: 12-18-1955

Birthplace:: Newark, New Jersey, USA

Birth Name:: Raymond Julian Vicimarli

Adopted when he was a six months old, Ray is a graduate of Union High School in Union, New Jersey. He put himself through the University of Miami by working in a cemetery. He got his acting start on TV in the soap Another World and on the TV version of the classic movie Casablanca. His best-known films are Something Wild, Field of Dreams, Goodfellas, Operation Dumbo Drop, Blow, and Narc. He is the father of child actress Karsen Liotta and was married to Michelle Grace from 1997 to 2004.

As a tribute to him, the British rock band Linoleum recorded a song called "Ray Liotta" on their 1997 album "Dissent." Adopted when he was a six months old, Ray is a graduate of Union High School in Union, New Jersey. He put himself through the University of Miami by working in a cemetery. He got his acting start on TV in the soap Another World and on the TV version of the classic movie Casablanca. His best-known films are Something Wild, Field of Dreams,...

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JPPT1974
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Underrated but great actor! ...Continue »
Talented and great but underrated as well as despite Smith flopping, hopefully he will land on another good show and that really he is good playing bad guys. With the rare good guy role of movies like Corrina, Corrina, and Field of Dreams. Very handsome and ages really well like fine wine if you ask me.
06/16/07 12:05am | report abuse
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EmielGr
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Awesome, badass actor who plays in great stuff like Copland, Narc, Vice City (the videogame), Blow and of course Goodfellas. Really one of my favourites.
02/24/07 03:04pm | report abuse
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amauriel
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Ray Liotta is a true actor. You really believe that he got into acting because he loves it for what it is. You'll never see him in any tabloids and you won't hear any gossip about him. In his roles, you sense more realism than many other actor's who are considered more talented than he. Of all of his roles in all of his movies, my favorite has to be "Goodfellas."
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brunabear
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I can't wait to see Ray Liotta's new series in the fall! I hope it does well and doesn't get cancelled after four episodes, like so many shows do. Hopefully, the fact that Ray Liotta is in it will give it some star power and carry it through the ratings.

I've loved Ray Liotta since I first saw him in his role in the movie Dominic And Eugene with Tom Hulce. It was such a wonderful movie and Ray was superb in it as the caring brother who is over-worked looking after his mentally deficient brother and trying to become a doctor at the same time. He gave a powerful performance there. He was also wonderful in bringing the baseball legend Shoeless Joe Jackson to life in the movie Field Of Dreams, one of my all-time favourite movies!

Ray has proven himself to be a very diverse actor who can take on all kinds of roles; he can be the good guy or the bad guy, and that, in my opinion is the sign of a good actor.
08/18/06 11:19am | report abuse