Paul Sorvino, most notably the mobster known as ‘Paulie Cicero,’ in Martin Scorsese’s GoodFellas, has died at the age of 83.
The actor leaves behind his wife, Dee Dee, and their 3 children, Mira, Michael, and Amanda as well as his grandchildren (Mattea Angel Backus, Holden Paul Terry Backus, Lucia Backus, Johnny Christopher King Backus).
Sorvino died of natural causes in Indiana.
Dee Dee, his wife, was by his side on Monday morning when he passed. His publicist Roger Neal confirmed the news.
“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,” said the widow.
Sorvino was in nearly 50 movies during a life-long career in Hollywood, and he’s best known for playing mobster Paul Cicero in the 1990 Martin Scorsese masterpiece, “Goodfellas.”
Sorvino also played a founder of the American Communist Party in Warren Beatty’s Reds (1981) and worked alongside the actor-director again in Dick Tracy (1990), Bulworth (1998) and Rules Don’t Apply (2016).
The Brooklyn native also starred for a season as Detective Phil Cerretta, the partner of Chris Noth’s Detective Mike Logan, on NBC’s Law & Order.
In 1973, Sorvino received a Tony nomination and a Drama Desk Award for his performance as the unscrupulous Phil Romano — one of the four former high school basketball players who reunite to visit their old coach — in the original Broadway production of Jason Miller’s That Championship Season, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama.
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