Drea de MatteoAKA:
Drea DeMatteo
Birthdate:
01/19/1973 Birthplace:
Queens, New York
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biography
A cigarette-smoking, trash talking girl from Queens, Drea de Matteo looks the way her name sounds, hard hitting and full of Italian attitude. As a young girl, Drea (pronounced "Dray") often attended rehearsals with her playwright mother at New York City's prestigious HB Studio. But this early exposure to the world of theater served only to convince Drea that she did not want a career in acting. She kept this view through adolescence and applied to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with the intention of becoming a director. Although Drea scored only a combined 800 on her SAT (she describes
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Milestone
Raised in Queens, New York City, NY
1980
Moved with family into Aretha Franklin's old apartment, next to the Guggenheim museum in New York City
1991
Accepted into the prestigious Tisch School of the Arts at New York University after writing a screenplay as part of her application
1997
Had guest appearance role on "Swift Justice," a short-lived drama on UPN
1998
Had guest appearance role on "Feds," a short-lived drama on CBS
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