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Liotta made his first big splash on screen playing the violent ex-convict husband of Melanie Griffith’s character in the Jonathan Demme-directed movie “Something Wild,” which earned him a Golden Globe nomination in 1987. Ray Liotta regretted turning down roles, was too ‘precious’ about career “The household, the situation, the age just dictate that’s the best thing to do for the child.” “I realized when I met her that she did it for very valid reasons and then realized that almost 99% of kids that are put up for adoption, it’s for the betterment of the kid,” he said. In a 2014 interview on “Larry King Now,” Liotta described tracking down his birth mother and coming to terms with why she gave him up. Liotta acted in “Field of Dreams,” portraying baseball player, Shoeless Joe Jackson. His adoptive parents, Alfred and Mary Liotta - an auto shop owner and town clerk, respectively - were loving and open with him about his background, he has said. Liotta was born in Newark in 1954 and adopted from an orphanage as a 6-month-old baby. “I don’t go around beating people up,” Liotta told The Post in October 2021. Ray Liotta starred as mobster, Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas.” ©Warner Bros Meanwhile, cinematic gangster Liotta was a gentle guy in real life - who had never actually been in a fight. “He absolutely amazed me, and I’ll always be proud of the work we did together on that picture.” “Playing Henry Hill in Good Fellas was a tall order, because the character had so many different facets, so many complicated layers, and Ray was in almost every scene of a long, tough shoot,” Scorsese said. Scorsese, in his statement to The Post Thursday, said he was “absolutely amazed” by Liotta’s performance in “Good Fellas.” Scorsese is known for using the same actors over and over - but when asked why the famed director never worked with him again, Liotta responded: “I don’t know, you’d have to ask him.
Liotta’s last social media post was just two days later, on May 3, when he posted to Instagram about his then-upcoming project, the Elizabeth Banks-directed movie “Cocaine Bear,” which had targeted a February 2023 release. BACKGRID The two were spotted strolling down the street on Sunday, May 1, just weeks before his death. Liotta was last pictured leaving Spruzzo Italian restaurant in Pacific Palisades hand in hand with his fiancée. She has not yet commented on his passing.
Nittolo allegedly accompanied Liotta on the set in the Dominican Republic while he was filming. The couple has been engaged since Christmas Day 2020. The two were spotted in good spirits while walking down the street in Pacific Palisades, where he lived, after enjoying a meal Sunday at Spruzzo Italian restaurant.
Liotta was last spotted in public holding hands with his fiancée, Jacy Nittolo, 46, on May 1 before his sudden passing. His cause of death and other details were not immediately known Thursday. Liotta, who also starred in the critically acclaimed film “Field of Dreams,” had been shooting the upcoming flick “Dangerous Waters” on the island before he passed away, his rep, Jennifer Craig, confirmed to the Hollywood Reporter. Stars, fans react to Ray Liotta’s death at 67: ‘I am utterly shattered’