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The Real Deal: Pauly Walnuts is Tony Sirico
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Genaro Anthony Sirico, Jr. (born July 29, 1942), better known as Tony Sirico, is an American actor who is most famous for his role as Paulie Walnuts on the HBO television series, The Sopranos. However, his character isn't too far-fetched from his real life:
| | Sirico was born in Brooklyn, New York. |
| | Before becoming an actor, Sirico was a feared shakedown artist who preyed on Manhattan nightclubs and who once gave this description of his own extortion technique: "You hit them over the head with a baseball bat, and they come around." |
| | After a dispute with a disco owner, Sirico once warned, "I'm going to come back here and carve my initials in your forehead. You better learn a lesson, you better show me the respect I deserve." |
| | A Bellevue Hospital psychiatric report from that period concluded that Sirico suffered from a "character disorder." |
| | While in prison, he became interested in acting from watching a theater group that came to perform. |
| | He spent a total of 20 months in jails like the famed Sing Sing for holding up a number of night clubs in the late 1960s and early 1970s. |
| | In Goodfellas, played a mobster named Tony who reports to a boss named Paulie. In The Sopranos, plays a mobster named Paulie who reports to a boss named Tony. |
| | 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 Playstation 2 Game The Sopranos: Road To Respect. |
| | Sirico has stated that politically he is a "far-to-the-right Republican." |
| | Sirico's brother, Robert Sirico, is a priest and co-founder of the free-market Acton Institute. |
| | Has done Stacker 2 commercials with WWE wrestlers, Tazz, Trish Stratus and Bubba Ray Dudley. |
| | Lives in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. |
| | Has a son and a daughter in their 30s |
| | Practices Karate and Kung Fu |
| | Frequently cast as a bit player in Woody Allen movies. |
| | An Italian-American, of Sicilian descent. |
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His legal file includes unlawful possession of a firearm, disorderly conduct, assault, extortion (indicted), drug possession (barbituates), armed robbery.
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