Emmy-winning Sopranos heroine Drea de Matteo is joining the cast as Wisteria Lane’s newest vixenish housewife, sources confirm to me exclusively.
De Matteo, who will be a series regular, will play the matriarch of a new Italian family. Casting is underway for her landscape designer husband and their tightly wound son.
Thoughts? IMHO, this is the second coolest piece of casting of the 2009-10 season (behind Katee Sackhoff joining 24, natch). Agree?
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Woah…Desperate Housewives just got interesting again. This is great casting news. I loved Drea de Matteo on The Sopranos.
that’s awesome! she’s been criminally absent from tv since sopranos ended and joey flopped.
lol she was on joey….poor girl
http://tvdonewright.com/2009/06/29/its-official-law-order-svu-keeping-both-of-their-stars/
This chick was in the awful Friends spin-off with Joey, right?
Adrianna was my favorite character on the Sopranos! I even watched Joey just because Drea was on it. Maybe I’ll have to get back into Desperate Sh*theads.
this is TOOO HOT!
She’s so hot and DH just got HOTTER
I was hoping to see her return to FX’s Sons of Anarchy as Jaxs’ strung out ex wife. Guess we know what her fate is with those bikers! LOL
Wow this is great casting!First Katee on 24 then Joanna on Gossip Girl then Robert Buckley on OTH!OMG this TV season will have some hot casts.Plus I know this girl is talented in the comedy world since she was the only funny one on Joey!
This is the whitest show on TV other than NCIS.
She is hot, but Marcia Cross is the hottest: http://www.actressscene.com/search/label/Marcia%20Cross
Hey Carol, Eva Longoria is not white.
First “Joey,” now “Doofus Dumbwives,” what the heck has happened to Drea’s taste in scripts to have her fall so far from The Sopranos?
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– Rob
hey kj, eva longoria is most likely have some white in her and maybe some indian, hispanic is not a race.either way carol quit race obsessing, i dont care if the show is all purple
I have to agree with Carol. Desperate Housewives is the whitest show on TV. Not just because they have a limited mix of races in the show, but because I don’t know anyone of any other race who watches the show. But, in their defense, the majority of their viewers are white women, so it only makes good sense to market it to that demographic.
I agree – this is exciting. Any word on if she will be this season’s villain? With Dave in the mental institution and the Applegates forever banned from the Lane, it wouldn’t be DH without a mystery.