Tony Sirico

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Tony Sirico, 2010

Genaro Anthony "Tony" Sirico, Jr (born July 29, 1942 in Brooklyn (New York City) , New York ) is an American actor of Italian descent.

Life

Before his acting career, Sirico was a professional criminal and was close to the Colombo mafia family . He has been arrested several times for armed robbery , disturbance of the peace and assault . For various attacks on nightclubs in the late 1960s and drug possession, he was finally convicted and sat from 1967 to 1968 and from 1971 to 1972 in prison . In the local theater group he discovered his interest in acting.

Sirico began his acting career with small roles in films like Finger - Tender and Brutal (with Harvey Keitel ) or Martin Scorsese's Good Fellas - Three Decades in the Mafia . In the 1990s he worked in five films by director Woody Allen . In total, he played in over 40 films and television productions.

In 1999 he had his biggest success in the role of mobster Paulie "Walnuts" Gualtieri, on the hit HBO - television series The Sopranos . He obtained a contract that his character Paulie Gualtieri will not become a traitor in the course of the series.

Tony Sirico is committed to helping children with cancer and collecting donations for the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital . For the fundraising campaign, he also hired fellow actors from the Sopranos .

Sirico lives in New York City with his wife Donna and their two children .

Political opinions

Sirico has said of himself that he is politically a far-right Republican. He donated money for Rudolph Giuliani's candidacy for the Republican presidential candidate.

Filmography (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mervyn Rothstein: The Sopranos: Mob Rule - The wiseguys of HBO's "The Sopranos" take a shot at another season of the award-winning show. Cigar Aficionado, 2001, accessed February 16, 2015 .
  2. ↑ From Sing Sing to Bada Bing , thesmokinggun.com, accessed July 17, 2007
  3. ↑ Tough guys love kids, too: a perspective by Tony Sirico. In: http://www.stjude.org/ . Retrieved January 31, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Tony Sirico Biography. (No longer available online.) In: http://www.biography.com/ . Archived from the original on May 22, 2012 ; accessed on January 31, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.biography.com
  5. ↑ 'Soprano' Makes a Killing for Bush  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / therockawayrepublicanclub.com  
  6. ↑ Celebs add star power to '08 donor lists

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personal data
SURNAME Sirico, Tony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Genaro Anthony Sirico junior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor of Italian descent
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City