Ray Liotta Biography

Fast Facts

• Worked as a bartender for the Shubert Theater in New York City before making it as an actor
• Early TV credit was portraying the bartender Sacha in the 1983 NBC series Casablanca, which also featured David Soul (in the role originally played by Humphrey Bogart), Hector Elizondo and Scatman Crothers
• Despite his pivotal role as the ghost of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, said that he found the success of Field of Dreams baffling because the premise was so outlandish
• While researching his role as a VA doctor in 1992's Article 99, he shadowed the chief surgeon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and passed out during a procedure, chipping two teeth and requiring 15 stitches in his chin
• Provided the voice of lead character Tommy Vercetti in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City