American actress Drea De Matteo has been a part of various hit shows, but she is best known for playing ‘Adraiana La Cerva’ in HBO’s ‘The Sopranos’ (1999-2006) for which she won an ‘Emmy Award’ (Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series).Â
She made her TV debut in ‘Swift Justice’ (1996), and since then, she has portrayed popular roles like that of ‘Angie Bolen’ in ‘Desperate Housewives’ (2009-10), ‘Gina Tribbiani’ in ‘Joey’ (2004-06), and ‘Wendy Case’ in ‘Sons of Anarchy’ (2008-14). She has also been a part of hit TV series’ like ‘CSI: Miami’ (2011), ‘Law and Order: Special Victims Unit’ (2011), ‘Californication’ (2012), ‘The Mindy Project’ (2013) etc.Â
Drea made her big screen debut with 1999 film ‘Meet Prince Charming’, and the list of her successful films include ‘Swordfish’ (2001), ‘R Xmas’ (2001), ‘Prey for Rock and Roll’ (2003), ‘Love Rome’ (2004), ‘Walker Payne’ (2006), ‘New York, I Love You’ (2009), ‘Broken English’ (2007), ‘Dark Places’ (2015) etc.
Her not so successful films are ‘Beacon Hill’ (2004), ‘Free Ride’ (2013), ‘Sex, Death and Bowling’ (2015) etc. Her top grossing movie is ‘New York, I Love You’. She is currently starring in TV series, ‘Shades of Blue’.Â