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Genaro Anthony "Tony" Sirico, Jr. (born July 24, 1942) is an American character actor who is most famous for his role as Paulie Gualtieri in the television series The Sopranos. Sirico was born in Midwood, Brooklyn. Sirico has also played gangsters in a number of films, including Mob Queen, Gangsters, Love and Money, Fingers, The One Man Jury, Defiance, The Last Fight, Innocent Blood, Bullets Over Broadway, The Pick-up Artist, Mighty Aphrodite, Gotti, Cop Land, Turn of Faith, and Mickey Blue Eyes. He also played policemen in the films Dead Presidents and Deconstructing Harry. Recently he... MORE

Genaro Anthony "Tony" Sirico, Jr. (born July 24, 1942) is an American character actor who is most famous for his role as Paulie Gualtieri in the television series The Sopranos. Sirico was born in Midwood, Brooklyn. Sirico has also played gangsters in a number of films, including Mob Queen, Gangsters, Love and Money, Fingers, The One Man Jury, Defiance, The Last Fight, Innocent Blood, Bullets Over Broadway, The Pick-up Artist, Mighty Aphrodite, Gotti, Cop Land, Turn of Faith, and Mickey Blue Eyes. He also played policemen in the films Dead Presidents and Deconstructing Harry. Recently he told the host of a Las Vegas radio show he would be playing the role of an ill-tempered high school football coach in an upcoming comedy for kids called Sports Heaven. Before turning to acting, Sirico was reportedly a fast-rising mob associate of the Colombo crime family serving under Carmine "Junior" Persico and had been arrested twenty-eight times. There is a Sopranos reference to this fact when Paulie says "I lived through the seventies by the skin of my balls when the Colombos were goin' at it." In 1967, he was sent to prison for robbing a Brooklyn after-hours club, but was released after LESS