Ray Liotta was posthumously nominated at the Primetime Emmy Awards on Wednesday. Here's what his daughter Karsen Liotta had to say.
were released Wednesday. Liotta, who played Big Jim Keene on the crime drama alongside Taron Egerton and Paul Walter Hauser, was nominated for best supporting actor in a limited series.“I am so grateful to the members of the Television Academy for honoring my dad with this nomination,” Karsen said. “He was so incredibly proud of his performance in ‘Black Bird,’ and it would mean the world to him to be nominated alongside Taron and Paul.
Liotta’s breakthrough role came in 1990 with the Martin Scorsese mob drama"Goodfellas," in which he played real-life criminal Henry Hill opposite Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci. He was often featured in crime films, including the 2021"Sopranos" prequel"The Many Saints of Newark." He scored a Golden Globe nomination for playing Melanie Griffith's violent ex-con spouse in Jonathan Demme's 1986 action romance"Something Wild." In 1989's"Field of Dreams," he portrayed"Shoeless Joe" Jackson, a member of the infamous 1919 Chicago White Sox team who shows up as a ghost in the cornfield of an Iowa farmer .
This year's Emmys are scheduled to air Sept. 18 on Fox, but the ceremony may be delayed by the ongoing writers’ strike and a potential actors' strike.
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