Given the two roles she has assayed on TV--the streetwise naif Adriana on The Sopranos and the tough-tawking Gina, the hairdresser sister of Matt LeBlanc's character on Joey--Drea de Matteo in person is shocking. No cleavage-baring tank top, no 2-in. fingernails, no gum cracking.
The woman bouncing down the stairs of her newly bought Hollywood Hills, Calif., home is petite and pretty with coiffed hair and a dusting of makeup. She does have that husky voice, deepened, she admits, by smoking cigarettes. But her fingernails? Short, clean and unpolished. "The nails, hair, boobs--everything on [my characters] was fake," says de...
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