Drea de Matteo
Born
January 19, 1972 in Queens, New York City, New York, USA
Birth Name
Andrea Donna de Matteo
Height
5' 6" (1.68 m)
Mini Bio
Andrea Donna de Matteo, called Drea (pronounced "dray"), was born on January 19, 1972 in Queens, New York, into an affluent family, the youngest of three children and the only girl. She is the daughter of Donna, a playwright and playwriting teacher at HB Studio in New York, and Albert A. De Matteo, a furniture manufacturer. She is of Italian descent. De Matteo spent her early childhood in Queens, and the family then moved to the Upper East Side in Manhattan, into Aretha Franklin's former townhouse.
De Matteo decided to pursue a directing career at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, perhaps because of the brief moment when, as a girl, she was brought onstage out of the audience and dazzled by the stage lights when she was seeing the play "Cats," perhaps because of her mother's involvement in the entertainment business. Once she was in school, however, it was the acting classes which attracted her greatest interest, and she decided on an acting career. After a screen debut in an obscure independent and a small part in a small movie, Meet Prince Charming (1999), de Matteo auditioned for a one-episode part in the HBO series The Sopranos (1999). She impressed the producers enough that they expanded the role, as Adriana La Cerva, girlfriend to up-and-coming Soprano family soldier Christopher Moltisanti (Michael Imperioli), and she eventually became a regular on the show. De Matteo had the right sultry beauty to portray Adriana, but her acting skills greatly fleshed out the character, making her as rich and complex a character as a slightly ditzy gangster's girlfriend can be in the first place - humorous, even charming in a way and, ultimately, tragic. She won an Emmy award for her portrayal of Adriana in 2004.
Although De Matteo's role on the HBO series ended in 2004, in that same year she got a leading role in Joey (2004), a spin-off of the long-running NBC sitcom Friends (1994). She has also appeared in several movies since starting on "The Sopranos" - regardless of the caliber of the production, de Matteo has consistently shown her strong acting skills, such as her award-winning lead in Abel Ferrara's 'R Xmas (2001) and her supporting role in Prey for Rock & Roll (2003).
Although De Matteo describes herself as shy, she also says she was and remains a wild, multi-tattooed party-girl who peppers her conversation with strong language and prefers jeans to dressing up. She owned a rock and roll vintage clothing store in the East Village called "Filth Mart" for several years but has closed it and is considering re-opening it in the Los Angeles area. She has said that she considers actor Vince Vaughn to be like a brother to her.
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31st October 2005, 22:21
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for as little clothing she wears in everything she does, im actually surprised there arent any nudes or even topless shots of her. cool pics, thanks!
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31st October 2005, 23:42
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1st November 2005, 05:06
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1st November 2005, 06:51
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1st November 2005, 07:21
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30th January 2006, 08:06
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she is very nice, and i love the sopranos
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2nd February 2006, 04:22
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her face is kinda ugly,and she looks sleazy rather than sexy
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2nd February 2006, 12:41
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I gotta admit, she does something for me 
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20th June 2007, 15:26
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man she was hot in that tv show "joey"
that show sucked, but her tits kept me tuning in! lol!
I wonder what she is doing now?
thanks for these!
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20th December 2007, 15:20
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20th December 2007, 15:21
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20th December 2007, 15:21
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5th January 2008, 17:23
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[06/18/07] Drea de Matteo @ "Broken English" Premiere - x8
