American actress
Born: January 19, 1972
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 that 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 (2002), 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.
Drea de Matteo’s 5 most popular quotes
- A happiness that won’t stand up to examination is less than worthless.
- I definitely play roles that are close to my persona. I was dying to be an actor, my whole life. I just always wanted to be someone else. Then, once I decided that I really thought I was pretty cool, I wanted to see myself.
- I’ve been in so many funeral scenes from The Sopranos, and I think I’ve even been in one on Sons of Anarchy. Those scenes, as a human being, are the most tedious scenes, of all time. You’re waiting, all day, in the blistering hot heat. So, I didn’t need to be there.
- I First of all, I would shoot myself if I ever had to play straight-forward characters that really don’t have much of a past. Maybe it’s just that I’m not a good enough actor to have to embellish, but I like having these really, really rich roles to play.
- I’m tired of the industry, tired of playing the whole game – the dressing up, the red carpet. I hate talking about myself.
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