American actress, Mira Katherine Sorvino’s father was Paul Sorvino
Paul Anthony Sorvino was an American actor, opera singer, businessman, author, sculptor, and also writer.
He was well-known for his roles as NYPD Sergeant Phil Cerreta on the TV series Law & Order and Paulie Cicero, a character based on Paul Vario, in the 1990 gangster picture Goodfellas.
He frequently played an authoritative figure on both sides of the law. He played supporting parts in Nixon, Reds, The Rocketeer, A Touch of Class, and Romeo and Juliet.
He was the father of Mira and Michael Sorvino, who were both performers.
Sorvino was born and reared in the Brooklyn neighborhood of New York City’s Bensonhurst.
His mother, Angela Maria Mattea, was a homemaker and piano instructor who was of Italian (Molisan) ancestry and was born in Connecticut.
Ford Sorvino, his father, was an immigrant from Naples, Italy, who oversaw robe manufacturing.
He went to the American Musical and Dramatic Academy and Lafayette High School, where he was a classmate of painter Peter Max.