Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Karen B. Friedman Hill (née Friedman; born January 16, 1946) [1] is an American woman known for her involvement in the American Mafia through her husband Henry Hill, who was an associate of the Lucchese crime family. The events of their lives were chronicled in the 1990 film Goodfellas and several books. [2]
In 1955, Henry Hill becomes enamored by the criminal life and Mafia presence in his working-class Italian-American neighborhood in Brooklyn.He begins working for local caporegime Paulie Cicero and his associates Jimmy "the Gent" Conway, an Irish-American truck hijacker and gangster, and Tommy DeVito, a fellow juvenile delinquent.
As a child, he worked as an actor in theater, television, and film. He portrayed the role of the sickly child, Colin in the international tour of The Secret Garden, [3] the role of young Henry in Henry Hill and guest starred in an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street opposite Elijah Wood.
He was cast in Goodfellas as the younger brother of Henry Hill . During the independent film boom of the 1990s, Corrigan built a career playing quirky, unconventional characters in films such as True Romance, Living in Oblivion, Walking and Talking and Rhythm Thief.
Ray Liotta, the actor best known for portraying mobster Henry Hill "Goodfellas" died at 67. He was with his fiancée Jacy Nittolo in the Dominican Republic. Ray Liotta, 'Goodfellas' and 'Field of ...
Liotta is forever known for his performance as mobster Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas.” His other well-regarded roles include playing Shoeless Joe Jackson in “Field of Dreams.”
Henry Hill Jr. was born on June 11, 1943, in the New York City borough of Manhattan to Henry Hill Sr., an Irish-American electrician, and Carmela Costa, an Italian immigrant of Sicilian descent. [1] Hill claimed in the book Wiseguy that his father had emigrated from Ireland at age 12 after the death of Hill's grandfather. [2]
On Feb. 24, Ray Liotta will receive a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, honoring almost 50 years of amazing work in TV and on film. Following his turn in Jonathan Demme’s 1986 film ...