Drea de Matteo of Sopranos fame, is joining the cast of Desperate Housewives as Wisteria Lane’s newest addition.

De Mattao has been cast as the matriarch of an Italian family.  The search is on for her landscape designer husband and their tightly wound son.

So what do you think?  Can De Matteo fill the shoes of Nicolette Sheridan’s Edie?

photo: WENN

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