“If you got one movie that people remember, that’s great. He went on to star in Field of Dreams in 1989 before taking on the role of Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas.
It’s just another journey.”Īfter small roles in TV and a small role in 1983’s The Lonely Lady, Liotta received a Golden Globe nomination for 1986’s Something Wild. And then when I finally met my birth mom in my forties, by then, I wasn’t as angry about it. “So I had that kind of energy of just being like, that’s fucked up.
“At first, I didn’t understand how a parent could give up a child,” he said to People magazine. Liotta was born in New Jersey and abandoned at an orphanage before being adopted at six months.