Actor Ray Lyotta, the unforgettable protagonist of the film “Good Men” has passed away.

As considered by many One of the best movies of all timeAnd received six Oscar nominations, winning one of the awards.

Born in New Jersey in 1954, he was adopted six months after being abandoned in an orphanage after birth.

He began his television career in the late 1970s and came up with his first major film roles in “Something Wild” (1986), in which he appeared with Jeff Daniels and Melanie Griffith, for which he was a Globe. Gold and “The Field of Dreams” (1989), with Kevin Costner.

Following the success of “Good Boys”, he was seen in blockbuster films like this Cop land (1997), with Sylvester Stallone, or Hannibal (2001), with Anthony Hopkins.

Over the next two decades, he appeared in several films and TV series, some of dubious quality.

In recent times his life seems to have been reborn, and he played a tough lawyer in the 2019 film “Marriage Story” directed by Nova Pompeo.

He returned to the Mafia genre with Steven Soderbergh’s “No Sudden Move” and “The Many Saints of Newark”, the sequel to the 2021 series “The Sopranos”.

Liotta, who was once married, leaves behind a 23-year-old daughter.

Lorraine Brocko, co-star of GoodfellasUpon hearing this news he tweeted “I was completely broken”.

“I can be anywhere in the world and people will come and tell me their favorite movie is Goodfellas,” he wrote.

“I mean, they always ask me what’s the best part of making that film. My answer is always the same … Ray Leota.”

Jamie Lee CurtisHe co-starred with Leotta in the 1988 play “Dominic and Eugene”, who tweeted that “his work as an actor showed his complexity as a man” and that he was “a kind man.”

“It’s very sad to hear that Ray Liot has passed away. He was a friend in the past, it’s so sad. We laughed a lot. Relax, friend,” the actress tweeted. Rosanna Arquette.

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