As a reminder, Ray Liotta died at the age of 67, while filming in the Dominican Republic, the authorities of this Caribbean country announced on Thursday. The star is dead”in his sleep“on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, confirmed in a statement sent to the press his agent Jennifer Allen, who gave no further details.
“He was in the company of his wife who asks you to respect her pain“, a spokesman for the general directorate of cinema of the Dominican Republic had previously told AFP, adding that Ray Liotta was working on the spot on a feature film entitled Dangerous Watersat the time of his sudden death.
The immense American and international star Robert De Niro, 78, paid tribute to him in a statement sent to the media The Hollywood Reportersaying to himself “very sad“by the disappearance of Liotta,”far too young to leave us“. His on-screen wife in Freedmenthe character of Karen Hill played by Lorraine Bracco, said on Twitter “completely shattered by the announcement of this terrible news“. For comedian Jamie Lee Curtis, also on Twitter, “his work as an actor revealed his complexity as a human being“: Ray Liotta was a “gentleman“.