On Feb. 24, Ray Liotta is set to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, just shy of a year since his death at the age of 67. The honor comes the same week as the release of “Cocaine Bear,” t…
in which he plays a character she describes as “a gangster … but he’s also an unfit grandpa as well.” That characterization also encapsulates the breadth of his accomplishments on both film and TV as an actor, which range from mobsters and tough guys to loving fathers — and plenty in between.
It’s that mischievousness that first made him a star, beginning with Jonathan Demme’s “Something Wild,” where he played Ray, the volatile ex-husband of Melanie Griffith’s character Audrey. His skill in the film is in first charming the audience, as he does Jeff Daniels’ unsuspecting Charlie, and then switching on a dime to convey the danger and menace of the character’s criminal past.
Liotta would later make appearances in not one but two “Muppets” movies , and further reinvent his tough-guy screen persona in films including “Blow,” in which he plays the father of the drug-dealer main character, and “Heartbreakers,” in which his feckless small-time hood falls prey to a mother-daughter con artist team played by Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt.
His well-earned transition into authority figures — both good and bad — reached a pinnacle in 2019 with his turn as an unscrupulous lawyer in Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story,” and then not one but two performances, each the opposite of the other, in David Chase’s “The Many Saints of Newark.
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