His publicist Roger Neal said he died Monday morning of natural causes at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. Sorvino had dealt with health issues over the past few years.
Born in Brooklyn in 1939 to a mother who taught piano and father who was a foreman in a robe factory, Sorvino was musically inclined from a young age and attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York where he fell for the theater. He made his Broadway debut in 1964 in “Bajour” and his film debut in Carl Reiner's “Where's Poppa?” in 1970.
Sorvino had three children from his first marriage, including Academy Award-winning actor Mira Sorvino. He also directed and starred in a film written by his daughter Amanda Sorvino and featuring his son Michael Sorvino. “I'm a pop singer in the sense Mario Lanza was,” Sorvino said in an interview the Tampa Tribune. “It astonishes me that no American male singer sings with a full voice anymore. Where have all the tenors gone?”“It's like trying to park a bus in a VW parking space,” he said.
Gran actor de character.
So sad RIP great actor nite GOODFELLA
AlsFastball 🙏
'We are not animale' RIP Paulie
Type casted but always great. RIP Paul.
Carla Carr el chapo
RIPPaulSorvino 🙏
Pauly!!!
It’s been a bad couple months for the ‘goodfellas’ - RIP Paul
R.I.P. Paulie
🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
Accomplished and wonderful actor. RIP.
RIP Paul. My thoughts are with his family
Wow it’s been a rough year for mob actors
RIP Paulie
Great actor
I never sliced garlic the same after ‘Goodfellas’. RIP Paulie.
mamma mia
He died from not getting vaccinated