BREAKING: 'Goodfellas' star Paul Sorvino has died. He was 83.
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"Reds," Henry Kissinger in Oliver Stone's"Nixon" and mob boss Eddie Valentine in"The Rocketeer." He would often say that while he might be best known for playing gangsters, his real passions were poetry, painting and opera.
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.
Sorvino had three children from his first marriage, including Academy Award-winning actor Mira Sorvino. When he learned that his daughter had been among the women allegedly sexually harassed and blacklisted by Harvey Weinstein in the midst of the #MeToo reckoning, he told TMZ that if he had known, Weinstein,"Would not be walking. He'd be in a wheelchair." © 2022 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
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