The Brooklyn-bred actor, who played mobster Paulie Cicero in Goodfellas, died of natural causes on Monday
The Brooklyn native’s career spanned over a half century, with memorable roles as James Caan’s bookie in The Gambler, secretary of state Henry Kissinger in Oliver Stone’s Nixon, Claire Danes’s father in Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet, and a heroin-addicted lounge singer alongside Alec Baldwin in The Cooler.
Sorvino also worked with actor-director Warren Beatty over several decades – as the founder of the American Communist party in Reds and in Dick Tracy, Bulworth and Rules Don’t Apply. He attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy under Stanford Meisner and William Esper, and made his Broadway debut as a singing patrolman in the comedy Bajour in 1964. He appeared on film for the first time in Carl Reiner’s Where’s Poppa? in 1970.
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