

if I'm feeling uncomfortable about something, I'll say "Our Father's" and "Hail Marys" to this day." In 1973, he graduated from Union High School and was later named to the Union High School Hall of Fame. He occasionally used prayer in his daily life, telling an interviewer, ". They attended church and he received first communion and was confirmed, but the family did not pray much. Liotta grew up in a Roman Catholic household in Union, New Jersey, although his family was not especially religious. He had one biological sister, one biological half-brother, and five biological half-sisters. He hired a private detective to locate his biological Irish mother in the 2000s, from whom he learned his family was mostly of Scottish descent. He said that he knew that he was adopted as a young child, and presented a show-and-tell report. Liotta had a sister, Linda, who was also adopted. His adoptive parents each unsuccessfully ran for local political office he recalled attending parades to hand out flyers for his father's run. Alfred was a personnel director and president of a local Democratic Party club. His adoptive parents were of Italian and Scottish descent. Having been abandoned at an orphanage, he was adopted at the age of six months by township clerk Mary (née Edgar) and auto-parts store owner Alfred Liotta.

Liotta was born in Newark, New Jersey, on December 18, 1954. He had a prominent voice acting role as Tommy Vercetti in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002). He starred as Frank Sinatra in the television film The Rat Pack (1998) and Lorca in the miniseries Texas Rising (2015), both of which earned him Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, and starred in the series Shades of Blue (2016–2018) and Black Bird (2022). He won a Primetime Emmy Award for his guest role in the television series ER in 2005. (2002), Identity (2003), Killing Them Softly (2012), The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), Marriage Story (2019), The Many Saints of Newark (2021), and Cocaine Bear (2023). Liotta appeared in numerous other films, including Unlawful Entry (1992), Cop Land (1997), Hannibal (2001), Blow (2001), John Q. He was best known for his portrayals of Shoeless Joe Jackson in the film Field of Dreams (1989) and Henry Hill in the film Goodfellas (1990).

He first gained attention for his role in the film Something Wild (1986), which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination.

Raymond Allen Liotta ( Italian: Decem– May 26, 2022) was an American actor.
