Adriana La Cerva Biography
Adriana La Cerva is a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos, portrayed by Drea de Matteo.
She is the long-time girlfriend and, later, fiancée of Tony Soprano’s protégé, Christopher Moltisanti. For her performance, De Matteo won the 2004 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
10 Quick Facts About Adriana La Cerva
- Name: Adriana La Cerva
- Age: 33 years (dead)
- Birthday: February 19
- Zodiac Sign: Aquarius
- Height: Average
- Nationality: American
- Occupation: Fictional Character
- Marital Status: Not Known
- Salary: Under review
- Net worth: Under review
Adriana La Cerva Age, Family, Mother
Liz is the mother of Adriana La Cerva. Liz was born Elizabeth Aprile and is a sister of the late Jackie Aprile Sr. and Richie Aprile and sister-in-law to Rosalie Aprile (see family tree). She is a recovered alcoholic. Carmela commented that Liz and Adriana always had a strained relationship when Adriana was growing up.
When Richie Aprile confronts Chris about his relationship with his niece Adriana, Christopher asks who told him that he was abusive towards her but he does not say.
She has an unnamed sister who lives in Dayton, New Jersey. This leads to the suspicion that Liz maintained contact with Richie while he was behind bars through some type of correspondence but it is never revealed.
She is not seen in the presence of her brother Richie when he is freed from prison. Adriana tells Christopher that if they were to go into the Witness Protection Program that she would be okay with never seeing her mother again.
Liz was never a big supporter of Adriana’s relationship with Christopher Moltisanti and Ade often stayed with her following arguments or domestic violence.
When Chris proposes to Ade in front of Liz, she explains Chris’ behavior as abusive power and control. Following Adriana’s disappearance in 2004, Liz was visited by the FBI who informed her that her daughter was believed to be dead and that they suspected Chris’s involvement.
When Carmela Soprano encountered her at the 2006 Feast of St. Elzear (based on the annual Feast of St. Gerard, organized every October around the church of St. Lucy’s in the Seventh Avenue of Newark) of which she sits on the festival committee,
Liz, having become convinced of her daughter’s murder, was already showing evident signs of depression: she had stopped taking care of her appearance and later attempted suicide.
The FBI came and questioned Liz and told her that they believe that Christopher murdered her daughter. Carmela visited her in the hospital, but Liz appeared to be unconscious at the time. Adriana pieces of information about the birth date, age, month are unknown but stay ready for the update soon
Adriana La Cerva Death
“Long Term Parking” is the 64th episode of the HBO original series The Sopranos and the 12th of the show’s fifth season. Written by Terence Winter and directed by Tim Van Patten, it originally aired on May 23, 2004.
Little Carmine recoils from the violence, and Johnny Sack becomes New York boss. In a sit-down, both Johnny and Phil Leotardo make threats against Tony Soprano’s blood relations. Johnny says he wants Tony B “on a fucking spit”.
Tony B, in hiding, calls Tony. He apologizes. Tony tells him not to come back and says he will look after his sons. He tells him truthfully why he was not at the hijack where Tony B was arrested.
He has always felt guilty; “Now we’re even.” Ending the call, they tell each other to take care. Tony has the call traced. His cousin is in upstate New York, near their uncle’s now empty house.
Tony and Johnny meet alone. Tony says he knows where Tony B is, and what has to be done. He asks Johnny to let him handle it himself. Johnny refuses. He then asks Johnny to promise that it will be quick. He again refuses. Tony then refuses to give up Tony B’s location and the meeting ends in antagonism.
Christopher is punished by Tony for bungling a cigarette smuggling operation. Back home, he rants about Tony’s treatment of him and what he sees as Tony’s favoritism towards Tony B. Adriana, stressed, is diagnosed with ulcerative colitis.
An FBI camera in the carpark of Adriana’s nightclub catches her behaving oddly with a bag of garbage. She is brought in. She admits that a murder was committed in her office at the club: Matush, the drug dealer, killed Gilbert Nieves, a customer who claimed he had been ripped off.
Adriana was getting rid of some bloodstained clothes. Threatened with imprisonment for covering up a murder, she is told she has to wear a wire. As before, she refuses. However, she persuades them that Chris is ready to turn. They let her go, with a deadline for bringing him in.
When she tells Chris she has been talking to the FBI, he is crazed with anger and begins to strangle her. He ceases, apologizes, and cries, “What are we going to do!” They talk all night and agree to flee and start a new life. In the morning Chris goes out to clear his head.
While getting gas for his Hummer H2, he thoughtfully watches a poor white family in the parking lot, their meager possessions strapped to the roof of a run-down car.
Adriana receives a call from Tony: Chris has tried to kill himself but he was saved and is not in danger; Silvio will come to collect her and take her to the hospital.
Silvio drives to an area of deserted woodland, turns off the road onto a track, then stops. He drags her out of the car. As she crawls away, crying, he shoots and kills her off the screen.
Chris dumps a suitcase of her things on some waste ground and puts her car in long-term parking at the airport. At the Bada Bing, Tony sees that Chris is doped on heroin. Chris says the pain is too much. Tony loses control and beats him up, saying Chris is not the only one with pain.
Tony and Carmela negotiate. She wants to build a house on spec in partnership with her father. Tony agrees to pay for the land, $600,000. He promises that his “midlife crisis will no longer intrude any more” into their marriage. They are reconciled and he moves back in.
He goes to see Valentina in the hospital and breaks up with her. Tony and Carmela go to look at the land he is buying. It is well wooded, similar to the woodland where Adriana was killed. He rests on a stump with his wife close beside him and looks up at the treetops and the sky
Adriana La Cerva Character history
Adriana is the niece of Jackie and Richie Aprile. Growing up she sees and hears plenty, and isn’t at all repulsed by the Mafia lifestyle. Adriana is initially portrayed as shallow and materialistic, interested in the things that Christopher’s money could buy: expensive cars, shoes, jewelry, drugs, and designer clothing.
Despite the couple growing closer, she becomes a frequent victim of domestic violence at the hands of Christopher, including planning on leaving him to stay with her aunt in Dayton, New Jersey yet she remains devoted to him. She always seems to have Christopher’s best interests (as well as her own) in mind.
Adriana is portrayed as ambitious and wanting to have a business of her own. In Season 3,[2] Christopher acquires The Lollipop Lounge in West Long Branch, Monmouth County, New Jersey, from a gambling debtor, and turns it over to Adriana to manage as she pleases.
Adriana renames the bar “Crazy Horse” and makes it successful as a venue for local alternative rock bands and as a bar for college students from nearby Monmouth University and elsewhere.
Benny Fazio is beaten in the night club’s parking lot by Phil Leotardo. In Season 5, Adriana is diagnosed with ulcerative colitis.
Adriana La Cerva Husband, Married
Adriana Husband name is Christopher Moltisanti, he played by Michael Imperioli, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos. He is Tony Soprano’s protégé and a member of the DiMeo crime family, rising from associate to caporegime over the course of the series.
Christopher Moltisanti is born in 1969 to Richard “Dickie” Moltisanti, a soldier in the DiMeo crime family, and Joanne Blundetto. In the episode “Cold Cuts” it is revealed that Chris grew up in Rochelle Park, New Jersey section of Paramus, New Jersey next to the Westfield Garden State Plaza.
When discussing making a biographical movie of Joe Gallo with Jon Favreau, Moltisanti mentions that he vaguely remembered Gallo being murdered in 1972, as he was only a kid (3 years old).
Dickie is killed when Chris is very young. Tony Soprano affectionately considers Christopher a “nephew” and looks out for him over the years.
Moltisanti dropped out of high school in the 9th grade. He is a fan of the television show Cops. Moltisanti is a roommate of Brendan Filone before his murder and engaged to Adriana La Cerva before her murder. Chris is a first cousin once removed of Tony’s wife Carmela.
Adriana La Cerva The mole
The FBI targets Adriana as a potential weakness in the family’s organization.
Upon the death of Sal “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero, the FBI looks to Adriana as a close relation to a rising star in the crime family and sends Special Agent Deborah Ciccerone to befriend her.
Cicerone, who goes by “Danielle Ciccolella”, succeeds at befriending Adriana, but the feds have to abandon the mission earlier than planned after Christopher makes a pass at Cicerone.
Nonetheless, the FBI learns of Christopher’s heroin addiction, which they know would enrage Tony Soprano, and turns Adriana into an informant by threatening her with prison time for cocaine distribution at the nightclub she manages.
Out of loyalty to Christopher, Adriana avoids giving up any serious information on the family and does her best to avoid the Soprano family house in order to have nothing to give back to the feds.
Her deception catches up with her after the FBI learns of her involvement in covering up a murder at her club and threatens to press charges of being an accessory to murder against her unless she offers full cooperation, which would include wearing a wire.
She reveals the truth to Christopher, hoping they can go into the Witness Protection Program together and start new lives. An enraged Christopher beats and almost strangles her, before breaking down crying.
His loyalty to his crime family turns out to be greater than his love for Adriana, and he reveals her status as an informant to Tony.
Tony telephones Adriana, falsely informing her that Christopher has attempted suicide at a diner in Ramapo Mountain State Forest and has been hospitalized, and that Silvio Dante will drive her to the hospital. En route on Interstate 287, Silvio stops the car in the middle of the woods.
Realizing what is about to happen, a terrified Adriana tries to flee, but Silvio drags her from the car and shoots her dead. Christopher is later seen putting some of her clothes in a red suitcase and dumping them and then leaves her light blue Ford Thunderbird in the long-term parking lot at the Liberty Airport in Newark, New Jersey.
Adriana La Cerva Post-mortem
In the Season 6 episode “The Ride”, Carmela Soprano runs into Adriana’s mother, Liz La Cerva, who tells Carmela that she believes Christopher killed Adriana and that the FBI questioned her about Adriana’s disappearance.
When Carmela tells Tony about their conversation, he dismisses her fears, explaining that if Christopher had killed Adriana then her body would have been found by now.
Furthermore, he reminds Carmela that if the FBI really suspected Christopher, then they would have arrested him.
While in Paris, Carmela dreams of seeing Adriana in a park, but a policeman tells her Adriana is dead. Carmela is intent on finding her, especially after Liz La Cerva tries to kill herself.
However, Tony and Silvio pull some strings and Carmela is able to continue construction on her spec house, and the distraction keeps her from investigating the matter further.
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