Paul Sorvino, an imposing actor who specialized in playing crooks and cops like Paulie Cicero in “Goodfellas” and the NYPD sergeant Phil Cerretta on “Law & Order,” has died.
Paul Sorvino, known for his role in "Goodfellas," has died at 83. Sorvino's wife Dee Dee Sorvino announced the news on social media, "I am completely devastated," she wrote on Twitter. "The love of my life & the most wonderful man who has ever lived is gone. I am heartbroken."
"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, Dee Dee Sorvino, said in a statement. She was by his side when he died. 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 made his Broadway debut in 1964 in "Bajour" and his film debut in Carl Reiner’s "Where’s Poppa?" in 1970.
He was especially prolific in the 1990s, kicking off the decade playing Lips in Beatty’s "Dick Tracy" and Paul Cicero in Martin Scorsese’s "Goodfellas," who was based on the real-life mobster Paul Vario, and 31 episodes on Dick Wolf’s "Law & Order.
He was proud of his daughter and cried when she won the best supporting actress Oscar for "Mighty Aphrodite" in 1996. He the Los Angeles Times that night that he didn’t have the words to express how he felt.But he wanted to be seen for more than what he was on screen and took particular pride in his singing. In 1996, "Paul Sorvino: An Evening of Song" was broadcast on television as a part of a PBS fundraising campaign.
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