Actor Paul Sorvino Passed Away

Actor Paul Sorvino Passed Away

Paul Sorvino Passed away that was, an actor best known for his roles in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas and the first two seasons of the NBC drama Law & Order, Actor Paul Sorvino passed away today from natural causes. Paul Sorvino had been fighting health problems for the previous several years. Paul Sorvino was 83 years old.

 

His publicist Roger Neal announced on behalf of Sorvino's wife Dee Dee Sorvino, who was by his side when he died away.

 

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In a declaration, Dee Dee Sorvino stated, our hearts are crumpled. Paul Sorvino was the love of my life and one of the finest actors to ever elegance the cinema or point. Around will never be another Paul Sorvino.

 

In the Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas, Sorvino played Paul Cicero, also known as Big Pauly.

 

Paul Sorvino began a 31-episode run as Det. Philip Cerreta, the companion of Chris Noth's Det. Mike Logan, on NBC's Law & Order in 1991. After receiving a wound while performing his job, the character was replaced on the show by Det. Lennie Briscoe is played by Jerry Orbach.

 

Before making his Broadway debut in the 1964 musical Bajour, Sorvino began his career as an advertising copywriter in an advertising firm. Paul Sorvino later joined the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. When Carl Reiner's cult classic where’s Poppa with George Segal and Ruth Gordon came out six years later, he made an appearance in it. The following year, in 1971, he played a supporting role in the critically acclaimed movie The Panic in Needle Park alongside a young Al Pacino, who was playing his first lead role in a feature.

 

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Sorvino's act in Jason Miller's 1972 Theatrical drama That Finals Series garnered favorable reviews and earned him a Tony nomination. In the 1982 feature picture adaptation, which also starred Bruce Dern, Stacy Ketch, Robert Mitcham, and Martin Sheen, he played the same part once more.

 

Also starring Segal, Sorvino had a noteworthy supporting part in the Best Picture Oscar-nominated movie A Touch of Class. In 1981, Sorvino co-starred in Reds, the first of three films he made with close friend and fellow actor Warren Beatty.

 

Other movie credits, to mention a few, included The Day of the Dolphin, The Gambler, Cruising, Bulworth, Romeo + Juliet, The Cooler, and Mambo Italiano. He also starred with James Caan, who passed away last month. In Nixon, directed by Oliver Stone, he also played Henry Kissinger.

 

Paul Sorvino has some TV roles, including ones on Elementary, The Goldbergs, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Moonlighting, Murder, She Wrote, and Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders. He most recently depicted gangster Frank Costello for Epix in Godfather of Harlem.

 

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Sorvino's Broadway credentials include appearances in Mating Dance (1965), Skyscraper (1965), and An American Millionaire, in addition to Bajour and That Championship Season (1974). He oversaw the quick Broadway production of Wheelbarrow Closers in 1976.

 

In addition to co-authoring the book Pinot, Pasta, and Parties with his wife Dee Dee, Sorvino created the Paul Sorvino Asthma Foundation.

 

Resulting of an accidental encounter on the Neil Cavuto show on the Fox News Channel Network, Dee Dee and Paul were wed in 2014.

 

Paul Sorvino is lived by his wife, his three children Mira, Amanda, and Michael, as well as five grandkids.

 

When Mira Sorvino recognized her Oscar in 1996 for her role in Mighty Aphrodite, her father started crying in front of the TV cameras as she recognized him. It was an iconic Oscar moment.

 

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