According to media reports, US actor Ray Liotta, known from films such as "Goodfellas" and "Field of Dreams", is dead. The celebrity website "TMZ" and the film portal "Deadline" reported on Thursday that Liotta was 67 years old died in the Dominican Republic.
This was confirmed by Liotta's media representative, according to British newspaper The Guardian.
Accordingly, the actor died in his sleep while he was filming in the Caribbean country.
Numerous fellow actors, including Jamie Lee Curits and Viola Davis, have expressed their condolences via the online service Twitter.
Liotta is best known for the 1990 mafia epic Goodfellas - Three Decades in the Mafia.
He starred alongside Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci in the film directed by legendary director Martin Scorsese.
The year before, he starred opposite Kevin Costner in the baseball film Field of Dreams.
Other well-known films are "Operation Dumbo" (1995) and "Cop Land" with Sylvester Stallone (1997).
Liotta won an Emmy in 2005 for a guest appearance in the medical series "Emergency Room".