Tony Sirico

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Tony Sirico

Birth name	Genaro Sirico
Born	July 29, 1942 Brooklyn, New York
Notable roles	Paulie Walnuts (The Sopranos)

Tony Sirico (born July 29, 1942) is an American actor who is most famous for his role as Paulie Walnuts on the HBO television series, The Sopranos.

1 Background
2 Career
3 Trivia
4 External link

[edit] Background

Sirico was born in Brooklyn, New York. Before becoming an actor, he spent some time in jail for holding up a number of night clubs in the late 1960s and early 1970s. While in prison, he became interested in acting from watching a theater group that came to perform.

[edit] Career

When he got out of jail, Sirico played gangsters in a number of films, including Gangsters, Love and Money, Fingers, The Last Fight, Goodfellas, Bullets Over Broadway, Mighty Aphrodite, Gotti, Cop Land, and Mickey Blue Eyes. He also played a policeman in the film Dead Presidents.

Although in Cop Land he is credited as being in the film, you never see him act in it; he appears on a photograph handed to Sylvester Stallone.

[edit] Trivia

He did the voice for Big Daddy (a mafia fairy) in the series The Fairly OddParents.
He has also done a voice-over for a SpongeBob SquarePants Episode.
His voice is used for his TV character in the THQ in Playstation 2 Game The Sopranos: Road To Respect.
Sirico has stated that politically he is a "far-to-the-right Republican." [1]
Sirico's brother, Robert Sirico, is co-founder of the free-market Acton Institute.[2]