Paulie Gualtieri Paulie Gualtieri Peter Paul "Paulie Walnuts" Gualtieri is a fictional character portrayed by Tony Sirico on the HBO series "The Sopranos". Paulie begins the series as a soldier, and later becomes a caporegime and eventually underboss of the DiMeo crime family. According to "The Sopranos: A Family History", Peter Paul "Paulie" Gualtieri, son of Gennaro Gualtieri (although Paulie's biological father was later revealed to be a World War II soldier named "Russ"), has been a troubled street kid in Roseville, Newark from the age of nine. He dropped out of school after the ninth grade and spent time in and
Pine Barrens (The Sopranos) up severely injured with a cracked wind pipe. Panicked, Paulie and Chris wrap him in a carpet and wheel him out to their car. While trying to figure out what to do with him, Paulie suggests that they dump him somewhere along the Garden State Parkway in the Pine Barrens. Chris wants to stop for breakfast at a Roy Rogers Restaurant first, but Paulie insists that business must come first. In the woods, Paulie and Chris open the trunk to find that Valery is still alive and has chewed through the duct tape. They lift him out of the car,