Mira Sorvino’s Oscar speech that brought her beloved father Paul Sorvino to tears goes viral

Hollywood actor Paul Sorvino died unexpectedly on Monday at the age of 83, after suffering from health problems in recent years.

Shortly after her death was announced, a clip was released of the famous Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion daughter Mira Sorvino calling her father Paul during his Oscar acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actress for her role in 1995’s Mighty Aphrodite. .

The clip was touching when Mira said on stage that her father Paul had taught her everything she knew about acting, covering her face with her hands and bursting into tears as she sat next to her mother, Lorraine Davis.

Tears: The clip was touching when Mira said on stage that her father Paul had taught her everything she knew about acting, covering her face with her hands and bursting into tears sitting next to her mother, Lorraine Davis.

The speech took place at the 68th Academy Awards held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in downtown Los Angeles in 1996.

“When you give me this award, you honor my father, Paul Sorvino, who taught me everything I know about acting,” said Mira, who put her blonde hair in a bun and wore a beautiful diamond necklace.

“I love you so much, Dad,” she added.

Shortly after the news of Paul’s death, Mira took to Twitter to express her grief.

“My father, the great Paul Sorvino, has died. My heart is broken: A life filled with love, joy and wisdom ended with him. He was the most wonderful father. I love him so much. I will send your love to the stars, father, as he goes.”

A long time ago: The talk took place at the 68th Academy Awards in 1996 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in downtown Los Angeles.

Gold: He won the award for his role as an intelligent streetwalker alongside Woody Allen in the 1995 film Mighty Aphrodite.

The two were always close.

It celebrated her 83rd birthday in April. “A very happy birthday for daddy Paul Sorvino,” she tweeted, along with a black and white photo of herself and her dad.

“I miss you so much and hope to be together in person very soon!” Added the Barcelona star.

When Sorvino learned that Mira was one of the women who had allegedly been sexually abused and blacklisted by Harvey Weinstein during the #MeToo deal, he told TMZ that Weinstein “couldn’t have walked” had he known. She would be in a wheelchair.

Heartbroken girl: Monday Mira posted a tribute to her late father: “With her, a life full of love, joy and wisdom ended”

“He better hope he goes to jail. Because when we meet [each other] I think he will be in the field,” Sorvino told the news channel in 2018.

“He’s going to put that bastard in jail. And it’s good for him if he leaves, otherwise he has to meet me.’

Then he added, “And I’m going to kill that bastard.”

Mira said Weinstein’s attempts to get along with her began in 1995 when she promoted her role in Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite. Mira started rubbing her shoulders when the two of them were alone in a hotel room at the Toronto Film Festival, according to Mira, who later said she tried to continue but was able to push him away at that moment.

Another beauty: 54-year-old Mira was last seen in downtown New York on June 29.

One of her most recent photos: from left Andy Buckley, wife Dee Dee Benkie, Paul and Mira pictured together in February 2020

A few weeks later, she managed to dodge the doorman and reach her apartment at around midnight, after which she called a friend to run to her, then told her that her boyfriend was on the way.

Mira believes Weinstein’s rejection ultimately hurt her career.

“There could be other factors, but I definitely felt frozen and my rejection of Harvey has something to do with it,” the actress said.

Mira later added that her story “faded” to some of the other stories.

Press secretary Roger Neal told DailyMail.com that Sorvino died Monday morning in Indiana of natural causes. His wife of eight years, actress and political expert Dee Dee Benkie, was by his side.

Family Ties: Sorvino (center) is pictured with his first wife Lorraine Davis (left) and their daughter Mira (right) in New York City during the premiere of That Championship Season in December 1982.

Another incident: Mira, Amanda Sorvino, Charlie Korsmo, Paul and his second wife, Vanessa Arico, were photographed together in June 1990.

“Our hearts are broken, there will never be Paul Sorvino again, he was the love of my life and one of the greatest artists ever to be praised on screen and on stage,” Benkie said in a statement.

Sorvino has been a pillar of film and television for over 50 years in the entertainment world. He has often said that while he is perhaps best known for playing gangsters, his true passions are poetry, painting and opera.

The star is most famous for his role as Paul Cicero in the 1990 film Goodfellas, starring alongside Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci.

He played an Italian-American communist in Warren Beatty’s Reds, Henry Kissinger in Oliver Stone’s Nixon, and Mafia boss Eddie Valentine in The Rocketeer. He also had a recurring role as Sergeant Phil Cerreta on the hit television show Law & Order.

A classic: The star is best known for his role as Paul Cicero in the 1990 film Goodfellas. Left to right, Liotta, De Niro, Sorvino and Joe Pesci

Sorvino married actress Lorraine Davis in 1966. The couple had three children together – Including Oscar-winning actress Mira Sorvino before her divorce in 1988.

He remarried to real estate agent Vanessa Arico in 1991, but the couple separated nearly five years later in 1996.

Sorvino seemed attached to his family, even directing and starring in a movie he co-wrote with his daughter Amanda Sorvino and son Michael Sorvino.

She was proud of her children and cried when Major Mira won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1996 for Mighty Aphrodite. She told the Los Angeles Times that night that she had no words to express how she felt.

“They don’t exist in any language I’ve heard, maybe Italian,” she said of her daughter’s success.