Actor: Ray Liotta

Ray Liotta played Henry Hill in Goodfellas, carrying the film’s narration and its moral collapse, and Scorsese cast him after seeing Something Wild, where he is genuinely frightening.

Field of Dreams gives him Shoeless Joe Jackson, played entirely as calm, which is the opposite instrument.

He was adopted at six months and found his birth mother in his forties. Marriage Story and The Many Saints of Newark gave him strong late work before his death in 2022.