Genaro Anthony Tony Siricio is an American actor with an impressive net worth of $16 million. He was born in 1942 in Midwood, Brooklyn, New York. Before becoming an actor playing gangsters, he was a real gangster. He was convicted of multiple crimes and was arrested 28 times. In 1967 he was imprisoned for robbing a Brooklyn after-hours club, and in 1971 he was sentenced to a prison term of up to four years, but ended up serving 20 months. He was also charged with drug possession. During one of his imprisonments he was visited by a ex-convict acting troupe. They inspired him to take a shot at acting.
Tony Sirico Net Worth $16 Million
Thanks to his life experience, Tony had a knack for playing gangsters in movies. His first serious movie role was in the 1978 movie Fingers, in which he played a criminal. After that he appeared in a bunch of movies as a gangster: Fingers and The One Man Jury in 1978, Defiance in 1980, The Last Fight in 1983, Goodfellas in 1990, Innocent Blood in 1992, and Bullets Over Broadway in 1994 are some of them. These roles made Tony‘s net worth increase steadily. Later on he also played some roles on the other side of the law – he was a policeman in Dead Presidents in 1995 and in Deconstructing Harry in 1997.
However, his big breakthrough was in 1999 when he secured the role for which he is most well known, Paulie Walnuts Gaultieri in a TV show about gangsters, The Sopranos. The series ended up being a huge hit. Tony won a Screen Actors Guild Award for outstanding performance as his character in 2000 and 2008, but was nominated five more times.. Sirico stayed with the show until 2007 and got a big boost to his net worth in that time.
After The Sopranos, Tony also appeared in a few other television shows. He was in The Fairly Odd Parents for 2 episodes in 2005, A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa in 2008 (as a mobster), Chuck and Medium in 2010, Lilyhammer (as his namesake) and also in Family Guy in 2013, where he voiced a family dog, Vinny Griffin for 2 episodes.
Currently Sirico is planning to star in the drama Zarra‘s Law with Joseph Scarpinito as writer and producer behind it. He is also going to play a law-abiding role of a football coach in the film Sports Heaven.
As for his personal life, Siricio is a far-right republican, and even donated to Rudy Giuliani‘s presidential campaign. He also has a brother, Robert, who is a Catholic priest, and a co-founder of Action Institute.
Now you know how a serious criminal and a menace to society turned his life around through acting, to reach this fascinating net worth sum of $16 million.
