Goodfellas Superstar Paul Sorvino Is Reported Death at 83

Hollywood veteran actor, Paul Sorvino has has reportedly died at the age of 83, it was shared on Monday.

His publicity agent Roger Neal, said he died Monday morning in Indiana of natural causes. His wife of eight years, Dee Dee Benkie, was by his side.

“Our hearts are broken, there will never be another Paul Sorvino, he was the love of my life, and one of the greatest performers to ever grace the screen and stage,” Benkie said in a statement.

In his over 50 years in the entertainment business, Sorvino was a mainstay in films and television. He would often say that while he might be best known for playing gangsters, his real passions were poetry, painting and opera.

The star was most famous for his role as Paul Cicero in the 1990 smash hit mobster movie Goodfellas with Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci.

He played 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 also had a recurring part as Sergeant Phil Cerreta on the hit crime TV show Law & Order.

Sorvino is the latest movie mobster to pass away. His Goodfellas castmate Liotta, 67, died in his sleep in the Dominican Republic, where he was filming Dangerous Waters, in May.

The Godfather star James Caan, he also appeared alongside Sorvino in The Gambler, died from a heart attack earlier this month at age 82.

Sorvino married actress Lorraine Davis in 1966. The pair had three children together including Academy Award-winning actress Mira Sorvino, who is best known for Romy & Michele’s High School reunion before they divorced in 1988.

He remarried in 1991 to real estate agent Vanessa Arico, but the pair separated about five years later in 1996.

Sorvino seemed dedicated to his family, even directing and starring in a film written by his daughter Amanda Sorvino and featuring his son Michael Sorvino.

He was proud of his children and cried when eldest Mira won the best supporting actress Oscar for Mighty Aphrodite in 1996. He the Los Angeles Times that night that he didn’t have the words to express how he felt.

“They don’t exist in any language that I’ve ever heard well, maybe Italian,” he said of his daughter’s accomplishment.

In April, Mira said happy 83rd birthday to her dad: “A very Happy Birthday to my father Paul Sorvino,” the 54-year-old actress wrote on Twitter alongside a black and white throwback image of herself and her father.

“I miss you so much and hope to be together in person very soon!” the Barcelona star added.

When he learned that Mira 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.”

Sorvino had starred in Miller’s Tony and Pulitzer-winning play That Championship Season on Broadway in 1972 and its film adaptation.