Paul Sorvino

Paul Sorvino, who played Paul Cicero in the film 'Goodfellas' and the TV series 'Law & Order,' died today of natural causes.

He reprised his role in the 1982 feature film version that also starred Bruce Dern, Stacy Keach, Robert Mitchum and Martin Sheen. Paul Anthony Sorvino born April 13, 1939, in Brooklyn and starred in such films as Goodfellas, Nixon, Dick Tracy, The Rocketeer, For the Love of Money, That Championship Season, Reds, A Touch of Class and Oh, God! among many others. “Our hearts are broken,” said Dee Dee Sorvino in a statement. Dee Dee and Paul married in 2014 after a chance meeting on the Neil Cavuto show on Fox News Channel Network. Sorvino also had a standout supporting role in the Best Picture Oscar-nominated film A Touch of Class, also starring Segal, and in 1981 co-starred in his longtime pal Warren Beatty’s film, Reds, the first of three such collaborations between the two. On television he starred on Seasons 2 and 3 of Law & Order and on Broadway in That Championship Season.

A would-be singing star, he found success in Hollywood playing a variety of roles, but they were often quiet, dangerous men, like Paulie Cicero in ...

he was George Segal’s movie-producer friend in “A Touch of Class” and a mysterious government agent in “The Day of the Dolphin.” Mr. Sorvino later played an egotistic, money-hungry evangelist with a Southern accent in the comedy “ Oh, God!” (1977) and God Himself in “The Devil’s Carnival” (2012) and its 2015 sequel. Most recently, in 2018, when the movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was on trial for criminal sexual acts — and Mira Sorvino had accused him of harassment — Mr. Sorvino predicted that Mr. Weinstein would die in jail. “Because if not, he has to meet me, and I will kill the [expletive deleted] — real simple,” Mr. Sorvino said in a widely aired video interview. He appeared next as a New Yorker robbed by a prostitute in “The Panic in Needle Park” (1972) but did not fall victim to the cops-and-gangsters stereotype right away. But in a half-century screen career, Mr. Sovino’s characters were often on the wrong side of the law. “Most of the time I was just another out-of-work actor who couldn’t get arrested,” he told The New York Times in 1972. The elder Mr. Sorvino, a robe-factory foreman, was born in Naples, Italy, and emigrated to New York with his parents in 1907. He made his film debut in “ Where’s Poppa?” (1970), a dark comedy directed by Carl Reiner, in a small role as a retirement-home owner. He had made his mark onstage as a very different but perhaps equally soulless character in “ That Championship Season” (1972), Jason Miller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning tragicomedy about the sad reunion of high school basketball players whose glory days are decades past. In the late 1950s, he began performing at Catskills resorts and charity events. That didn’t happen, he recalled, until one day when he was adjusting his necktie, looked in the mirror and saw something in his own eyes.

Paul Sorvino, an imposing actor whose roles ranged from the mob boss in "Goodfellas" to an early stint on the long-running cop drama "Law & Order," has died ...

on Twitter on Monday, "My heart is rent asunder- a life of love and joy and wisdom with him is over. Sorvino is perhaps best remembered for director Martin Scorsese's "Goodfellas" as Paul Cicero, the mobster who even in prison retained a passion for cooking and fine cuisine, thinly slicing garlic with a razor blade. Sorvino attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy and had thoughts of becoming an opera singer before making his Broadway debut in the mid-1960s.

Actor Paul Sorvino, known for streetwise tough guy roles in "Goodfellas" and "Law & Order," died of natural causes at the age of 83 on Monday morning.

Sorvino worked with his children in different projects over the years. "He was the most wonderful father. I love him so much. Throughout his film career, Sorvino delivered dramatic performances playing real people. “It’s nothing like me as a human being.” Sorvino, an alumni of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, made his Broadway debut in the 1964 musical "Bajour." He later starred in shows such as "Skyscraper" and "An American Millionaire," according to Playbill.

Paul Sorvino, the cop and crook of the silver screen best known for his roles in projects such as “Goodfellas” and “Law & Order,” died Monday at 83.

He once told the New York Times that he thought of himself “as a warrior-poet.” “Then I was going to fix my tie and I saw this guy,” Sorvino said of his own reflection in the mirror, surprising himself with his own lethal gaze. He starred alongside Al Pacino in “The Panic in Needle Park,” James Caan in “The Gambler,” and worked with Carl Reiner on “Where’s Poppa” and “Oh, God!.” Working consistently through the ’80s, Sorvino once again hit stardom with his role as Henry Kissinger in “Nixon” in 1995 and Fulgencio Capulet in Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo + Juliet.” “Our hearts are broken,” Dee Dee Sorvino said in a statement. For his part, Sorvino didn’t see himself quite that way. Throughout his career, the Brooklyn native was an imposing presence on film and stage.

Specializing in playing cops and crooks, Sorvino was a mainstay in films and television.

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Paul Sorvino, un actor imponente que se especializaba en interpretar a ladrones y policías como Paulie Cicero en “Goodfellas” (“Buenos muchachos”) y el ...

Hizo su debut en Broadway en 1964 en “Bajour” y seis años después en el cine, en “Where’s Poppa?” (“Yo quiero a mamá, pero...”) de Carl Reiner. Ella estuvo a su lado cuando murió. Paul Sorvino, un actor imponente que se especializaba en interpretar a ladrones y policías como Paulie Cicero en “Goodfellas” (“Buenos muchachos”) y el sargento de policía de Nueva York Phil Cerretta en “Law & Order” (“La ley y el orden”), falleció. Tenía 83 años.

Las causas de la muerte del actor aún son desconocidas; parte de su popularidad la obtuvo en la película de Martin Scorsese, “Goodfellas”, con el papel de ...

En una entrevista del Festival de Cine Tribeca de 2015 reveló que: “Encuentras la columna vertebral de un personaje y toma todas las decisiones por ti”. Además de ser actor, también era cantante de ópera y escultor figurativo. El amor de mi vida y el hombre más maravilloso que jamás haya vivido se ha ido.

Paul Sorvino, un actor imponente que se especializaba en interpretar a ladrones y policías como Paulie Cicero en Goodfellas y el sargento de policía de ...

Hizo su debut en Broadway en 1964 en Bajour y seis años después en el cine, en Where’s Poppa?, de Carl Reiner. Asimismo, su hija, la también actriz Mira Sorvino anunció en Twitter el fallecimiento de su padre. Su madre daba clases de piano y su padre era capataz en una fábrica de batas.

El actor Paul Sorvino, de Brooklyn, NY, fue pilar del cine y la televisión. Su publicista, Roger Neal dijo que murió en Indiana por causas naturales.

Estaría en una silla de ruedas”. Hizo su debut en Broadway en 1964 en "Bajour" y su debut cinematográfico en "¿Dónde está papá?" de Carl Reiner, en 1970. Nacido en Brooklyn en 1939 de una madre que enseñaba piano y un padre que era capataz en una fábrica de batas, Sorvino tuvo inclinaciones musicales desde muy joven y asistió a la American Musical and Dramatic Academy en Nueva York, donde se enamoró del teatro.

"Goodfellas" star Paul Sorvino died of natural causes on Monday at the age of 83, Page Six confirmed.

He made his Broadway debut in the 1964 musical “Bajour.” He also received critical praise for starring in the Broadway show “That Championship Season,” which earned him a Tony Award nomination. “Our hearts are broken, there will never be another Paul Sorvino, he was the love of my life, and one of the greatest performers to ever grace the screen and stage.” his wife said through a rep in a statement shared to Page Six on Monday.

Actor Paul Sorvino, best known for his starring role as Paul Cicero in "Goodfellas," has died. He was 83.

“If I meet him on the street, he oughta hope that he goes to jail,” Sorvino told TMZ in 2018. A deadly soulless look in my eyes that scared me and was overwhelmingly threatening. And I looked in the mirror and literally jumped back a foot. And I looked to the heavens and said, ‘You’ve found it.'” I saw a look I’d never seen, something in my eyes that alarmed me. I’m going to ruin this great man’s picture, and I’m going to ruin myself.’ He, being wise, said, ‘Call me tomorrow, and if necessary I will get you out.’ Born in Brooklyn in 1939, Sorvino attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York, where he fell in love with theater. That son of a bitch, good for him if he goes, because if not, then he has to meet me, and I’ll kill that motherf–ker.” “My daughter is a wonderful person,” he said at the time. He’d be in a wheelchair. “Because if we come across [one another], I think he’ll be lying on the floor somehow, magically. “My father the great Paul Sorvino has passed,” 54-year-old Mira tweeted Monday. “My heart is rent asunder- a life of love and joy and wisdom with him is over.

Paul Sorvino es quizás mejor recordado por "Goodfellas" del director Martin Scorsese como Paul Cicero, el mafioso que, incluso en prisión, mantuvo la pasión ...

(Sorvino y su esposa luego coescribieron el libro "Pinot, Pasta, and Parties"). Su primera película fue la comedia "Where's Poppa,"", seguida de "The Panic in Needle Park,", junto a Al Pacino. Dee Dee Sorvino emitió un comunicado a través de Neal, diciendo en parte: "Nuestros corazones están rotos, nunca habrá otro Paul Sorvino".

The actor may be best known for “Goodfellas,” but he almost bailed on it because the character of the underboss Paulie Cicero was so difficult to pin down.

Sorvino is also memorable as Edelson, the commanding officer of the undercover cop Burns (Al Pacino) in William Friedkin’s “Cruising” (from 1980; rent or buy on major platforms). Assigning his underling to work the gay sex-club underworld of Manhattan in search of a killer, Edelson inquires into Burns’s sexual history with the most blunt question imaginable, not batting an eyelash. For another taste of the more voluble Sorvino, his turn as Curtis Mahoney, a federal agent posing as an investigative journalist in Mike Nichols’s much-maligned 1974 “The Day of the Dolphin” (available on Kino Now), is worth looking into. Later, overseeing elaborate dinners in prison, he has a special system for slicing garlic, and once his cellmate Henry (Liotta) enters bearing wine and Scotch, he proclaims, “Now we can eat.” Presiding over a celebration of Henry’s release from the joint, he’s Uncle Paulie. Henry and his merry men are either paying tribute to Paulie with a percentage of their ill-gotten gains or lying to his face. In the first place, he was a proud Italian American. A connoisseur of Italian culture, particularly food and music, he was not inclined to play a Mafioso. In addition, Sorvino, who died Monday at 83, was a voluble guy, and he liked playing voluble guys. Sorvino’s vision of Paulie was an incredibly nuanced portrayal of a man who, on the page, comes across as simple and as unpleasant as sudden death. Just don’t do it.” Without losing any of the character’s outer-borough intonations, Sorvino clips the words like he’s snapping necks. Much of “Goodfellas” (streaming on HBO Max) is devoted to how three underlings, played by Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci and Robert De Niro, did not stay in line. Vario, then, was a middle manager of mayhem. He scoffed at the idea of “choices,” insisting: “I found the guy and the guy made the choices.” Much is made in the early scenes of the movie about how most of the criminal’s directives were executed with a mere nod. When Paul Sorvino was offered the role of Paulie Cicero, the Queens-based mob underboss in Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas” (1990), he very much did not want to accept it.

The actor who played Paul Cicero in Goodfellas and starred on two seasons of Law & Order was 83.

Naturally, Sorvino followed Goodfellas with a two-season run on Law & Order, playing Sergeant Phil Cerreta for 31 episodes. Sorvino was born in Brooklyn in 1939 and attended a performing arts school, where he decided to become a theater actor. Paul Sorvino, the intimidating tough-guy actor best known for playing mobsters and cops—but who prided himself on the times he was able to do anything else—has died.

Muere Paul Sorvino, actor imponente que se especializaba en interpretar a ladrones y policías como Paulie Cicero en “Goodfellas” y el sargento de policía de ...

Esculpió una estatua de bronce del difunto dramaturgo Jason Miller que se encuentra en Scranton, Pensilvania. En 1972, Sorvino actuó en Broadway en la obra de Miller “That Championship Season”, laureada con los premios Tony y Pulitzer, y en su adaptación cinematográfica. Pero quería que el mundo viera más de lo que proyectaba en la pantalla y también se enorgullecía de su canto. Hizo su debut en Broadway en 1964 en “Bajour” y seis años después incursionó en el cine, en “Where’s Poppa?” (“Yo quiero a mamá, pero...”) de Carl Reiner. Con sus 1,93 metros de estatura (6 pies y 4 pulgadas), Sorvino tenía una presencia que impactaba sin importar el medio en el que trabajara. Estaría en una silla de ruedas”. La actriz Mira Sorvino, una de sus hijas, escribió un homenaje en Twitter: “Mi padre, el gran Paul Sorvino, ha fallecido. ¿A dónde se han ido todos los tenores?”. Esa noche no tenía palabras para expresar como se sentía, según el diario Los Angeles Times. En 2014, se casó con la comentarista política Dee Dee Benkie y dijo que un objetivo de su vida posterior era “desengañar a la gente de la idea de que soy un matón lento y de párpados pesados”. Ella estuvo a su lado cuando murió. Mi corazón está desgarrado - una vida de amor, alegría y sabiduría con él ha terminado. Paul Sorvino, un actor imponente que se especializaba en interpretar a ladrones y policías como Paulie Cicero en “Goodfellas” (“Buenos muchachos”) y el sargento de la policía de Nueva York Phil Cerretta en “Law & Order” (“La ley y el orden”), falleció. Tenía 83 años.

El famoso actor Paul Anthony Sorvino, quien se hiciera famoso por su papel de Paulie Cicero en «Goodfellas», falleció este 25 de julio a los 83 años de edad ...

El famoso actor Paul Anthony Sorvino, quien se hiciera famoso por su papel de Paulie Cicero en "Goodfellas", falleció este 25 de julio a los 83 años de edad. La noticia fue confirmada por su publicista, quien notificó que el actor murió en la Clínica Mayo en Jacksonville, Florida, y aunque no se conoce con […] Sorvino no solo ejerció como actor, sino que también era cantante de ópera y escultor.

Although known as a gentle giant, he once said about Harvey Weinstein for blackballing his daughter Mira: 'I will kill the motherfucker.'

(Tony Sirico, her co-star in the film and another Brooklynite who played a convincing mobster, died at the age of 79 earlier this month.) Oof, my god this is a hard day for character actors. Good for him if he does, because if not, he has to meet me. Sorvino was born and raised to working class parents in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn. His family let him train at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York where he hoped to become an opera singer. Sorvino is the second cast member of “Goodfellas” to die this year. His wife Dee Dee Sorvino wrote on Instagram: “I am completely devastated.

In his over 50 years in the entertainment business, Sorvino was a mainstay in films and television, playing an Italian American communist in Warren Beatty's ...

Songs performed included “Torna A Sorriento,” “Guaglione,” “O Sole Mio,” “The Impossible Dream” and “Mama.” He was proud of his daughter and cried when she won the best supporting actress Oscar for “Mighty Aphrodite” in 1996. “The reality is I’m a sculptor, a painter, a best-selling author, many, many things — a poet, an opera singer, but none of them is gangster…. But he wanted to be seen for more than what he was on screen and took particular pride in his singing. Born in Brooklyn in 1939 to a mother who taught piano and father who was a foreman in a robe factory, Sorvino was musically inclined from a young age and attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York where he fell for the theater. He’d be in a wheelchair.”

Actor Paul Sorvino died Monday. He was known for his role as Paulie in Martin Scorcese's gangster epic, "Goodfellas." He was 83 years old.

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The 'Goodfellas' star gets emotional over his daughter's tribute in a clip that's resurfaced following his death this week.

After his passing, Mira paid tribute to Paul—who is also father to her siblings Michael and Amanda—on Twitter. “My father the great Paul Sorvino has passed. When asked about Weinstein’s alleged abuse of his daughter, Paul didn’t mince words, telling TMZ in 2018, “He’s going to go to jail. In the years following her win, Mira has been open about being blacklisted by Harvey Weinstein after she rejected his sexual advances.