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Ray Liotta
  • Birth Name:
    Raymond Liotta
  • Date of Birth:
    December 18, 1954
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Sagittarius
  • Place of Birth:
    Newark, New Jersey, USA
  • Height:
    6' 0"
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Hair Color:
    Brown
  • Eye Color:
    Blue
  • Nationality:
    American
  • Education:

    Union High School, Union, New Jersey

    University of Miami

Family

Ray Liotta
  • Spouse:
    Michelle Grace - Divorced

Career

Ray Liotta
  • Profession:
    Actor
  • Debut:
    The Lonely Lady - 1983 - Movie

Awards

Ray Liotta

1987 : BSFC Award, Best Supporting Actor
for : Something Wild

2005 : Emmy Award, Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for : "ER" 

2003 : Glow Award, Best Voice Performance - Male for : Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

2005 : Prism Award, Performance in a Drama Series Episode for : "ER"

Trivia

Ray Liotta
  • In 1987 he was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for the movie Something Wild.
    submitted by - Akshya Dhiman
  • In 1999 Ray was nominated for a SAG award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries for The Rat Pack.
    submitted by - Amit Kher
  • While in college, Ray worked at a cemetery.
    submitted by - New ID
  • In February 2007, Ray was arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of driving under the influence, after his car hit two parked cars near his home in Pacific Palisades. Ray posted bail after being booked on the charge.
    submitted by - Amit Kher
  • His best friend is actor Josh Taylor. They met when they were both on the tv soap opera Days of Our Lives.
    submitted by - New ID
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Quotes

Ray Liotta
  • I was looking to become more proactive with my career because I wasn't crazy with some of the scripts I was getting - this was before Blow and Hannibal - so I decided to start my own production company. - Unknown
    submitted by - Amit Kher
  • I think people like watching edgy things. - Unknown
    submitted by - Mandy John
  • You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them. - Unknown
    submitted by - Mandy John
  • You don't do anything thinking that it's going to stick. - Unknown
    submitted by - Nicky Status
  • Today some actors get a little full of themselves about what they're doing. - Unknown
    submitted by - Sandeep Sandeep Singh
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Biography

Ray Liotta
Last Updated: Monday, October 12, 2009

RayA lead actor with piercing blue eyes, pockmarked skin, and a wicked laugh, who gives the overall impression of a 1950s doo-wop singer crossed with a psychopath, Joe began his career on the NBC daytime soap "Another World" and demonstrated his versatility playing such roles as a violent ex-convict ("Something Wild" 1986), a medical student caring for his brain-damaged brother ("Dominick and Eugene" 1988) and back-from-the-dead baseball great 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson ("Field of Dreams" 1989). In Jonathan Demme's "Something Wild", Liotta switched genres as radically as the film does, metamorphosing from cutely sinister to an unstoppable force of nature whose violence was more directly, individually physical than that of most gun-toting action heroes.

This scary piece of work jump-started Liotta's career. His range and presence in a limited role presaged his commanding performance in Martin Scorsese's "GoodFellas" (1990), as a brutal yet sympathetic mobster destined by his Irish heritage to remain on the fringes of the "organization". Later, Liotta displayed a softer edge as a heart surgeon who leads a revolt against the Washington bureaucracy at a veterans' hospital in "Article 99" (1992) but went back to his old psycho ways in the bad-cop thriller, "Unlawful Entry" (1992). He followed with performances as a testosterone-laden inmate of a futuristic penal colony in "No Escape" (1994), a by-the-book captain who must replace a Vietnamese village's elephant in Disney's "Operation Dumbo Drop" (1995) and an alcoholic medical examiner in the very forgettable "Unforgettable" (1996).

RayIt is ironic that a guy who appeared mostly in musicals in college and "played the nicest guy in the world--never fought, nice to his mother, wasn't one of those fool-arounds"--on "Another World" has made his mark as a man of menace. His quieter work in movies like "Dominick and Eugene" and "Corrina, Corrina" (1994), as a widower who hires Whoopi Goldberg to help him take care of his daughter, has not captured the public's fancy.

He returned to familiar terrain as the nutzoid serial killer of "Turbulence" and earned particular praise for his performance as a police officer who wrestles with his conscience in "Cop Land" (both 1997) before aligning himself with the right side of the law represented by Sheriff Sylvester Stallone He once again played a crooked cop seeking redemption in "Phoenix" (1998), but the HBO movie "Rat Pack" (1998) afforded him the opportunity to explore other aspects of his character as legendary crooner Frank Sinatra.

Filmography

Ray Liotta

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