Ray Liotta Trivia | facts about the late actor

Ray Liotta was an American actor and film producer. He recently passed away unexpectedly.

So let’s find out some trivia and facts about his life and career.

1. His full name is Raymond Allen Liotta
2. He was born on December 18, 1954
3. He died on May 26, 2022
4. He was an American actor and film producer
5. He was most known for his roles as Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams (1989) and Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas (1990)
6. He was a Primetime Emmy Award winning actor
7. Ray Liotta received a Golden Globe Award nomination and two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations
8. Ray Liotta first gained attention for his role as Ray Sinclair in the Jonathan Demme film Something Wild (1986)
9. For the film he received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture nomination
10. He continued to star in films such as Dominick and Eugene (1988), Unlawful Entry (1992), Cop Land (1997) Hannibal (2001), Blow (2001), John Q (2002), Killing Them Softly (2012), The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), Kill the Messenger (2014), Marriage Story (2019)
11. His most recent credit was in the Sopranos prequel theatrical film The Many Saints of Newark (2021)
12. He was also known for his television work in ER
13. For the role he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2004
14. He starred as Frank Sinatra in the television film The Rat Pack (1998) and Lorca and Tom Mitchell in Texas Rising (2015)
15. For the latter he earned Screen Actors Guild Award nominations
16. He also starred in the drama series Shades of Blue (2016–2018) with Jennifer Lopez
17. He was also known as Tommy Vercetti in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002)
18. Ray Liotta was born in Newark, New Jersey, on December 18, 1954
19. Having been abandoned at an orphanage, he was adopted at the age of six months by township clerk Mary and auto-parts store owner Alfred Liotta
20. His adoptive parents were of Italian and Scottish descent
21. Alfred was a personnel director and president of a local Democratic Party club
22. His adoptive parents each unsuccessfully ran for local political office
23. He recalled attending parades to hand out flyers for his father’s run
24. Liotta had a sister, Linda, who was also adopted. He said that he knew he was adopted as a young child, and presented a show-and-tell report on it for kindergarten
25. He hired a private detective to locate his biological mother in the 2000s, from whom he learned that he was mostly of Scottish descent
26. He had one biological sister, one biological half-brother, and five biological half-sisters
27. Liotta grew up in a Roman Catholic household in Union, New Jersey
28. Although his family was not especially religious, they attended church and he received first communion
29. It was confirmed, but the family did not pray much
30. He occasionally used prayer in his daily life
31. In 1973, he graduated from Union High School
32. Ray Liotta was later named to the Union High School Hall of Fame
33. Liotta attended the University of Miami
34. There he studied acting and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1978
35. He performed in musicals, including Cabaret, Dames at Sea, Oklahoma, and The Sound of Music, at the University of Miami’s Jerry Herman Ring Theatre
36. Ray Liotta married actress and producer Michelle Grace in February 1997
37. They met at a baseball game, where her former husband Mark Grace was playing for the Chicago Cubs
38. The couple had a daughter, Karsen
39. They were divorced in 2004
40. On an episode of Jay Leno’s Garage, Liotta revealed that Nancy and Tina Sinatra, daughters of Frank Sinatra, once sent Liotta a horse’s head in the mail
41. The joke was in response to Liotta demurring to play their late father in a miniseries they were working on
42. Only to see Liotta play him in the 1998 HBO television film The Rat Pack
43. In February 2007, he was charged for driving under the influence after crashing his Cadillac Escalade into two parked vehicles in Pacific Palisades
44. He pleaded no contest
45. From his experience shooting the Western Texas Rising, Liotta continued horseback riding
46. Ray Liotta died in his sleep on May 26, 2022
47. He died in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
48. He was filming Dangerous Waters
49. At the time of his death, he was engaged to Jacy Nittolo