Biography
While doing time in Sing Sing, he saw a traveling thespian troupe of ex-cons called The Theater of the Forgotten and determined that he to would be an actor. Shortly after his release from prison, he earned his Screen Actors Guild card for his work in "Crazy Joey" (1974, about the life of mobster Joey Gallo), but the lean years that followed almost convinced him to strap the iron back on to earn his daily bread. Sirico persevered and began …
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Career Milestones
| Grew up in Brooklyn, New York | ||
| Jailed twice for robbing some New York nightclubs in the late 1960s and early 1970s; served part of his time in Sing Sing, where a traveling thespian troupe of ex-cons called The Theater of the Forgotten came to entertain the inmates | ||
1974 | Earned Screen Actors Guild card for first film, "Crazy Joe" | |
1980 | Credited as Anthony Sirico Jr in James Toback's "Love & Money" | |
1980 | Credited as G Anthony Sirico for John Flynn's "Defiance" | |
1983 | Reteamed with Toback for "Exposed" | |
1987 | Third film with Toback for "The Pick-Up Artist"; first credit as Tony Sirico | |
1989 | Appeared as himself in Toback's feature documentary "The Big Bang" | |
1990 | Played Tony Stacks (of Cicero's 1950s crew) in Martin Scorsese's "GoodFellas" | |
1994 | Acted in Woody Allen's "Bullets Over Broadway" | |
1995 | Reteamed with Allen for "Mighty Aphrodite" | |
1996 | Portrayed an escaped convict in Allen's "Everyone Says I Love You" | |
1997 | Acted with future "Sopranos" co-stars Michael Imperioli and Vincent Pastore in John Andrew Gallagher's "The Deli" | |
1997 | Fourth film with Allen, "Deconstructing Harry" | |
1998 | Played Tommy Gambino in NBC minisries "Witness to the Mob" | |
1999 | Interviewed for TNT's "Family Values: The Mob & the Movies" | |
1999 | Portrayed Paulie Walnuts on the HBO drama "The Sopranos" | |
Awards
2000 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in The Sopranos |
2001 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in The Sopranos |
2002 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in The Sopranos |
2003 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in The Sopranos |
2005 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in The Sopranos |
2007 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in The Sopranos |
2008 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in The Sopranos |