Adriana La Cerva
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| First appearance | "Pilot" (episode 1.01) |
| Last appearance | "Long Term Parking" (episode 5.12) (death) "Cold Stones" (episode 6.11) (dream sequence) |
| Cause/reason | Murdered by Silvio Dante |
| Created by | David Chase |
| Portrayed by | Drea de Matteo |
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| Gender | Female |
| Age | 30s (Deceased) |
| Occupation | Manager of Club Crazy Horse |
| Family | Liz La Cerva (mother) |
| Spouse(s) | Christopher Moltisanti (fiancé) |
| Relatives | Richie Aprile (uncle) Jackie Aprile, Sr. (uncle) Jackie Aprile, Jr. (cousin) Vito Spatafore (cousin) |
Adriana La Cerva (15 March 1967-14 April 2004), played by Drea de Matteo, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos. She was the long-time girlfriend and, later, fiancée of Tony Soprano's protege, Christopher Moltisanti.
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[edit] Character history
Adriana was known as a mobster's dream girl, having grown up around wiseguys all her life by virtue of being the niece of Jackie and Richie Aprile. Growing up she saw and heard plenty, and wasn't at all repulsed by the mafia lifestyle. She has a facial resemblance to actress Anita Ekberg. She is based on mob wife and informant Carol Luciana. Adriana was initially portrayed as shallow and materialistic, interested in the things that Christopher's money could buy: expensive cars, jewelry, drugs, designer clothing and furs. However, as the couple became closer, she always seemed to have Christopher's best interests (as well as hers) in mind. She was very ambitious and wanted to have a business of her own. She was eventually set up as the manager of Christopher's Crazy Horse club in Long Branch, New Jersey, which became quite successful. Christopher's violent outbursts made her a frequent victim of domestic abuse.
[edit] The mole
The FBI had been targeting Adriana as a potential weakness in the family's organization. Upon the death of Sal "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero, the FBI looked to Adriana as a close relation to a rising star in the crime family and sent Special Agent Deborah Ciccerone to befriend her. Ciccerone succeeded at befriending Adriana, but they had to cut short the mission earlier than planned after Christopher made a pass at Ciccerone. Nonetheless, the FBI learned of Christopher's heroin problem, which they knew would enrage Tony Soprano, and turned Adriana into an informant by threatening her with jail time for cocaine distribution at the nightclub she owned.
Out of loyalty to Christopher, Adriana avoided giving up any serious information on the family and did her best to avoid the Soprano family house in order to have nothing to give back to the feds. Her deception caught up with her after the FBI learned of her involvement in covering up a murder at her club and threatened to press charges of being an accessory to murder against her unless she offered full cooperation. She chose to reveal the truth to Christopher, hoping they could run away together and start new lives. Christopher's loyalty to his crime family turned out to be greater than his love for her as he revealed Adriana's status as an informant to Tony Soprano. Tony had Silvio Dante, under the pretense that he was taking her to Christopher (who Adrianna was told had attempted suicide), execute her. Like Richie Aprile and Ralph Cifaretto not everyone is exactly sure what happened to her. Carmela, along with many others, believe she moved off elsewhere following her and Christopher's break-up.
[edit] Post-Mortem
There was initial speculation that Adriana may not have been killed - the primary reasoning for this was that her death was not seen, which was unusual in the course of the series; the camera tilted upward, away from Silvio and the crawling Adriana, before two gunshots are heard. De Matteo was also under contract to appear in the sixth season. However, in her audio commentary on the fifth season DVD, de Matteo confirmed that Adriana is indeed deceased, and the show's frequent use of dream imagery instead provided for her return; she appeared in a dream of Carmela's in the sixth season premiere.
During the sixth season premiere on March 12, 2006, Carmela also asks Tony about Adriana (he quickly changes the subject). In the Season 6 episode "The Ride", Carmela runs into Adriana's mother, Liz La Cerva, who tells Carmela that she believes Christopher killed Adriana, and the FBI came to her with questions about her. When Carmela tells Tony about their conversation, he explains that there was no body, and reminds her that if the FBI really thought Christopher had killed her, they would have hauled him in.
While in Paris, Carmela had a dream that she saw Adriana in a park, but a gendarme tells her that Adriana is dead. Carmela is intent on finding her, especially after Liz La Cerva lands in the hospital following an attempted suicide. However, after Tony and Silvio pull some strings, Carmela is able to continue construction on her spec house.
After Christopher's murder in "Kennedy and Heidi", Carmela showed remorse over thinking he had killed Adriana, stating, "He could never let himself take her life. Why are we so quick to blame? What is the attraction in that?"
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