Biography of Drea De Matteo
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. De Matteo’s father is a furniture manufacturer and her mother, Donna, is a playwright and teaches playwriting at HB Studio in New York. 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. 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.


Drea De Matteo trivia

  • Got alcohol poisoning in Australia at age 18.
  • People call her by middle name Belle
  • Her official fan site (www.charlottechurchfans.com) was launched on the day she celebrated her 14th birthday.

  • Former model.

  • She is a model for the Guess clothing company.

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