Editing Ray Liotta (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:RayLiottaTIFFSept2012.jpg|thumb|Liotta in 2012]]
Liotta married Michelle Grace, an actress and producer, in February 1997 after they met at a baseball game, where her former husband [[Mark Grace]] was playing for the [[Chicago Cubs]].<ref name="Pottstown-Mercury-Narc-2003">{{cite news|last1=Longsdorf|first1=Amy|title=Ray Liotta finds intense adrenaline rush in 'Narc'|url=http://www.pottsmerc.com/article/MP/20030122/TMP05/301229966|access-date=January 6, 2016|work=[[Pottstown Mercury]]|archive-date=November 19, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151119204947/http://www.pottsmerc.com/article/MP/20030122/TMP05/301229966|url-status=live}}</ref> They had a daughter before divorcing amicably in 2004.<ref name="Lifetime-Bio" /><ref name="NJStarLedger-KillingSoftly-2012" />

On an episode of ''[[Jay Leno's Garage]]'', Liotta revealed that [[Nancy Sinatra|Nancy]] and [[Tina Sinatra]] once sent Liotta a fake horse's head in the mail. The joke was in response to Liotta's declining to play their father in a miniseries they were working on, only to see Liotta play him in the 1998 [[HBO]] television film ''[[The Rat Pack (film)|The Rat Pack]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/ray-liotta-frank-sinatra-daughters-mailed-horse-head|work=Fox News|title=Ray Liotta reveals why Frank Sinatra's daughters mailed him a horse head|first=Jessica|last=Napoli|access-date=November 5, 2021|archive-date=November 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105162719/http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/ray-liotta-frank-sinatra-daughters-mailed-horse-head|url-status=live}}</ref>

In February 2007, he was charged with [[driving under the influence]] after crashing his [[Cadillac Escalade]] into two parked vehicles in [[Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles|Pacific Palisades]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Under The Influence|publisher=[[CBS News]]|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/under-the-influence/15|access-date=July 15, 2015|archive-date=July 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716025145/http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/under-the-influence/15/|url-status=live}}</ref> He pleaded [[no contest]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.ew.com/article/2007/12/14/monitor|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|title=News Monitor|first=Adam|last=Markovitz|access-date=August 18, 2015|archive-date=September 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924064828/http://www.ew.com/article/2007/12/14/monitor|url-status=live}}</ref>

From his experience shooting the Western ''Texas Rising'', Liotta continued horseback riding and said in September 2014: "I was obsessed with riding horses [on the show]. I love it now. I've never had a hobby. It might be my new hobby."<ref name="LarryKingNow-Identical-2014" />

In May 2017, Liotta, along with talk show host and actress [[Kelly Ripa]], was inducted into the [[New Jersey Hall of Fame]].

In 2018, while discussing his role alongside [[Jennifer Lopez]] as a corrupt cop targeted by the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] in the [[NBC]] crime drama ''[[Shades of Blue (TV series)|Shades of Blue]]'', Liotta told a reporter for ''Long Island Weekly'': 
{{blockquote|You want to do as many different genres as you can and that's what I've been doing. I've done movies with [[the Muppets]]. I did Sinatra. I did good guys and bad guys. I did a movie with an elephant. I decided that I was here to try different parts and do different things. That's what it's really all about. That's what a career should be.<ref name="GildeRubio2022">{{cite news |last1=Gil de Rubio |first1=Dave |title=Ray Liotta: More Than Just A Goodfella |url=https://longislandweekly.com/ray-liotta-more-than-just-a-goodfella/ |access-date=May 27, 2022 |work=Long Island Weekly |date=May 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414082958/https://longislandweekly.com/ray-liotta-more-than-just-a-goodfella/ |archive-date=April 14, 2019}}</ref>}}

In 2022, after wrapping up filming of ''[[Cocaine Bear]]'', Liotta made a speech and stated that he was known for being Italian, but he did a [[Genealogical DNA test|heritage tree]] and found that he mostly has Irish ancestry.<ref name="empire" />{{Contradictory inline|date=February 2025}}