Donald Clarke“I’d had such an up and down career,” Ray Liotta told The Irish Times just last September. “For the first 10 years, I didn’t even have a publicist. Boy, was I dumb.”
Making good use of a throaty cackle that was all his own, Liotta managed to bring the audience with him as an ordinary Joe who got sucked into the gangster life before realising he would have to turn snitch or die. There was perhaps too much danger about him to permit casting as a romantic leading man. But if you needed someone to growl in the corner then Liotta wouldn’t let you down.
“I didn’t know anything about acting but I guess my sister was pretty dramatic,” he told Tara Brady in that interview last year. “I graduated high school, I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I thought I’d work in construction or whatever.” He moved to New York before graduation and landed jobs from the off. He gained a sort of fame as Joey Perrini in NBC’s Another World, one of the big daytime soap operas, but by then he had an inkling he might go further. Liotta moved to Los Angeles and began scratching up auditions for movies.
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