Adriana La Cerva Biography, Family, Death

Adriana La Cerva is a fictional character from the HBO television series The Sopranos, portrayed by Drea de Matteo .

She is the longtime girlfriend and, later, fiancée of Tony Soprano’s protege, Christopher Moltisanti. For her performance, De Matteo won the 2004 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.

ADRIANA LA CERVA AGE, FAMILY, MOTHER

Liz is Adriana La Cerva’s mother. Liz was born Elizabeth Aprile and is a sister of the late Jackie Aprile Sr. and Richie Aprile and sister-in-law of 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 he was abusive towards her but he doesn’t say.

She has an unnamed sister who lives in Dayton, New Jersey. This leads to the suspicion that Liz maintained contact with Richie while behind bars through some type of match, but this is never revealed.

She is not seen in the presence of her brother Richie when he is released from prison. Adriana tells Christopher that if they were in the witness protection program, she would be okay never to see her mother again.

Liz was never a big supporter of Adriana’s relationship with Christopher Moltisanti and Ade often stuck with her arguments or domestic violence.

When Chris proposes to Ade in front of Liz, she explains Chris’ behavior as abusive power and control. After Adriana disappeared in 2004, Liz was visited by the FBI who informed her that her daughter was presumed dead and that they suspected Chris’ involvement.

When Carmela Soprano met her at the Fête de Saint-Elzéar in 2006 (based on the annual feast of Saint-Gérard, held each October around Saint Lucia’s Church on Seventh Avenue in Newark) whose committee festivals,

Liz, convinced of her daughter’s murder, was already showing obvious signs of depression: she had stopped taking care of her appearance and later attempted suicide.

The FBI came to question Liz and told her that they believed Christopher had murdered her daughter. Carmela visited her in the hospital, but Liz seemed unconscious at the time. Adriana’s date of birth, age and month information is unknown, but stay tuned for the update soo

DEATH OF ADRIANA LA CERVA

“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 first aired on May 23, 2004.Little Carmine recoils from the violence and Johnny Sack becomes the boss of New York. During an assize session, Johnny and Phil Leotardo threaten Tony Soprano’s blood relations. Johnny says he wants Tony B “on the spit.”

Tony B, hidden, calls Tony. He apologizes. Tony tells her not to come back and says he will take care of his sons. He honestly tells her why he wasn’t at the hijacking where Tony B was arrested.

He always felt guilty; ‘Now we are even.’ As they end the call, they tell each other to be careful. Tony traced the call. His cousin lives in upstate New York near their uncle’s empty house.

Tony and Johnny meet alone. Tony says he knows where Tony B is and what to do. He asks Johnny to let him handle it himself. Johnny refuses. He then asks Johnny to promise him that it will be fast. He refuses again. Tony then refuses to give up Tony B’s location and the meeting ends in antagonism.

Christopher is punished by Tony for botching a cigarette smuggling operation. Back home, he complains about Tony’s treatment of him and what he sees as Tony’s favoritism towards Tony B. A stressed out Adriana is diagnosed with ulcerative colitis.

An FBI camera in the parking lot of Adriana’s nightclub catches her acting oddly with a bag of trash. She is brought. She admits that a murder was committed in her office at the club: Matush, the drug dealer, killed Gilbert Nieves, a client who claimed to have been scammed.

Adriana was getting rid of some bloodstained clothes. Threatened with imprisonment for covering up a murder, she is told she must wear a wire. As before, she refuses. However, she persuades them that Chris is ready to shoot. They let her go, with a deadline to get him in.

When she tells Chris that she spoke to the FBI, he is enraged and begins to strangle her. He stops, apologizes and shouts, “What are we going to do!” They talk all night and agree to run away and start a new life. In the morning, Chris goes out to clear his head.

While refueling his Hummer H2, he gazes pensively at a poor white family in the parking lot, their meager possessions strapped to the roof of a ramshackle car.

Adriana receives a call from Tony: Chris tried to kill himself but he was saved and is not in danger; Silvio will pick her up and take her to the hospital.

Silvio drives through a deserted wooded area, turns off the road onto a track, then stops. He drags her out of the car. As she walks away crying, he pulls and kills her off-screen.

Chris throws a suitcase of his belongings onto a vacant lot and puts his car in long-term parking at the airport. At the Bada Bing, Tony sees that Chris is high on heroin. Chris says the pain is too much. Tony loses control and beats him up, saying that Chris isn’t the only one suffering.

Tony and Carmela negotiate. She wishes to build a house to specification in partnership with her father. Tony agrees to pay for the land, $600,000. He promises that his “midlife crisis will no longer interfere” in their marriage. They reconcile and he returns.

He goes to see Valentina in the hospital and breaks up with her. Tony and Carmela go to see the land he is buying. It is well wooded, similar to the forest where Adriana was killed. He lies on a stump with his wife near him and looks at the treetops and the sky

ADRIANA LA CERVA CHARACTER STORY

Adriana is the niece of Jackie and Richie Aprile. Growing up, she sees and hears a lot, and is not at all repelled by the mafia lifestyle. Adriana is initially portrayed as superficial and materialistic, interested in the things Christopher’s money could buy: expensive cars, shoes, jewelry, drugs, and designer clothes.

Despite the couple’s rapprochement, she becomes a frequent victim of domestic violence at the hands of Christopher, including planning to leave him to stay with her aunt in Dayton, New Jersey, but she remains devoted to him. She always seems to have Christopher’s best interests (as well as her own) in mind.

Adriana is described as ambitious and wanting to have her own business. In Season 3, [2] Christopher acquires The Lollipop Lounge in West Long Branch, Monmouth County, New Jersey from a gambling debtor and hands it over to Adriana to manage as she pleases.

Adriana renames the bar ‘Crazy Horse’ and makes it a hit spot for local alternative rock bands and as a bar for students from nearby Monmouth University and beyond.

Benny Fazio is beaten in the nightclub parking lot by Phil Leotardo. In season 5, Adriana is diagnosed with ulcerative colitis.

ADRIANA LA CERVA HUSBAND

Adriana Husband’s name is Christopher Moltisanti, he is portrayed by Michael Imperioli, is a fictional character from the HBO television series The Sopranos. He is Tony Soprano’s protege and a member of the DiMeo crime family, rising from associate to caporegime over the course of the series.

Christopher Moltisanti was born in 1969 to Richard “Dickie” Moltisanti, a DiMeo family soldier, and Joanne Blundetto. In the episode “Cold Cuts”, it is revealed that Chris grew up in Rochelle Park, in the New Jersey section of Paramus, New Jersey, next to Westfield Garden State Plaza.

When discussing making a biopic of Joe Gallo with Jon Favreau, Moltisanti mentions that he vaguely remembered Gallo being murdered in 1972, as he was only a child (3 years old).

Dickie is killed when Chris is very young. Tony Soprano affectionately considers Christopher a “nephew” and watches over him over the years.

Moltisanti dropped out of high school in the 9th grade. He is a fan of the TV show Cops. Moltisanti is a roommate of Brendan Filone before his murder and engaged to Adriana La Cerva before his murder. Chris is a once distant first cousin of Tony’s wife, Carmela.

Photo by Adriana La Cerva

THE MOLE

The FBI targets Adriana as a potential weakness in the family’s organization.

When Sal “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero dies, the FBI sees Adriana as having a close relationship with a rising star in the crime family and sends Special Agent Deborah Ciccerone to befriend her.

Cicerone, who goes by “Danielle Ciccolella”, manages to befriend Adriana, but the feds have to abort the mission early after Christopher makes a pass at Cicerone.

Nevertheless, the FBI learns of Christopher’s heroin addiction, which they believe would enrage Tony Soprano, and turn Adriana into an informant by threatening her with jail time for distributing cocaine at the nightclub she runs.

Out of loyalty to Christopher, Adriana avoids giving up any serious family information and does her best to avoid the Soprano family home so she doesn’t have to give anything back to the federal government.

Her deceit 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 complicity in murder against her unless she offers full cooperation, which includes wearing of a thread.

She reveals the truth to Christopher, hoping they can go through the witness protection program together and start a new life. An enraged Christopher beats and nearly strangles her, before breaking down crying.

His loyalty to his crime family proves greater than his love for Adriana and he reveals his status as an informant to Tony.

Tony phones Adriana, falsely informing her that Christopher attempted suicide at a restaurant in Ramapo Mountain State Forest and was 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 out of the car and kills her. Christopher is later seen putting some of his clothes in a red suitcase and throwing them away, then leaving his light blue Ford Thunderbird in the long-term parking lot at Liberty Airport in Newark, New Jersey.

AFTER DEATH

In the season 6 episode “The Ride”, Carmela Soprano meets Adriana’s mother, Liz La Cerva, who tells Carmela that she thinks Christopher killed Adriana and that the FBI questioned her about the disappearance. from Adriana.

When Carmela tells Tony about their conversation, he dismisses her fears, explaining that if Christopher had killed Adriana, her body would have been found by now.

Also, he reminds Carmela that if the FBI really suspected Christopher, then they would have arrested him.

In Paris, Carmela dreams of seeing Adriana in a park, but a policeman tells her that 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 building her spec house, and the distraction prevents her from investigating the matter further.