FOG BLOG ENTERTAINMENT LOG: RAY LIOTTA OF 'GOODFELLAS' AND 'SHADES OF BLUE' TV SERIES , DEAD AT 67!

Ray Liotta dead: ‘Goodfellas’ actor dies at 67...the gruff blue-eyed actor who starred in movies like Goodfellas and Field of Dreams, has died at the age of 67.

The Hollywood Reporter confirmed his death directly with his representative, Jennifer Craig, who said the actor was in the midst of shooting a movie and “died in his sleep,” in the Dominican Republic.

Deadline reported that the movie he was working on is the upcoming film Dangerous Waters.

Liotta leaves behind a daughter, Karsen, and a fiancée Jacy Nittolo.

Liotta’s last post on Instagram was to promote an upcoming horror film called Cocaine Bear directed and produced by Elizabeth Banks. It will be one of the last films starring the long-time actor, whose career spans 44 years. Liotta’s post has since been flooded with “Rest in peace” messages from fans. The Newark, New Jersey, native was born in 1954 and adopted at age six months out of an orphanage by a township clerk and an auto parts owner. Liotta always assumed he was mostly Italian — the movies did too. But later in life while searching for his birth parents, he discovered he’s actually Scottish.

Though he grew up focused on playing sports, including baseball, during his senior year of high school, the drama teacher asked him if he wanted to be in a play, which he agreed to on a lark. Whether he knew it or not at the time, it planted a seed, though he still assumed he’d end up working construction. And later, at the University of Miami he picked drama and acting because they had no math requirement attached.

He would often say in interviews that he only started auditioning for plays because a pretty girl told him to. But it set him on a course. After graduation, he got an agent and soon he got his first big break on the soap opera Another World.