Wisteria Lane might want to get a neighborhood watch going, as the new kid on the block has quite the (TV) past.

Emmy-winning Drea de Matteo has joined the cast of ABC's steamy Desperate Housewives.

The actress, memorable for her long-standing role as an abused mob girlfriend Adriana La Cerva on The Sopranos, will play the wife of a landscape designer and mother to a high-strung son.

She joins sexy stars Eva Longoria Parker, Teri Hatcher, Marcia Cross and Felicity Huffman.

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