Paul Sorvino, a US actor best known for his role as Paulie Cicero in the gangster classic Goodfellas from 1990, has passed away at age 83.
Who is Paul Sorvino? How did he die?
His publicist, Roger Neal, claimed that he passed away at his Indiana home from natural causes.
The Tony Award nominee actor gained notoriety for his roles of criminals and police officers throughout the course of a film and television career that began in 1970.
His wife and three kids are left behind.
There will never be another Paul Sorvino, his wife Dee Dee Sorvino declared in a statement following his passing.
Sorvino, whose mother taught piano, was born in Brooklyn in 1939. In 1964, he launched his career in show business with the musical “Bajour.”
He made his cinematic debut four years later in Carl Reiner’s 1970 black comedy “Where’s Poppa?”
In the coming decades, the 6’4″ (1.93m) tall Sorvino established himself as a mainstay of American cinema, starring with Al Pacino in “The Panic in Needle Park” (1971) and the recently deceased James Caan in “the Gambler” (1974).
