Adriana DeMeo was born in Brooklyn, New York by Italian immigrant parents. Her father, Luca, came over from a small country town in Italy in search of a better life with his parents and 7 of his brothers and sisters. Once Luca got started working a job mixing cement, he flew back to marry Adriana's mother, Antonietta, who was 17 at the time. Adriana's first language was Italian until her mother started taking night classes to learn English after the family transferred to New Jersey. She and her family continually visit their close knit relatives in Italy to this day. Adriana grew up taking dance classes but when she entered Howell High School, a performing arts high school offering video, dance, and theatre, she bit the bullet and decided to audition for both dance and acting. She was accepted into both and was pushed by her mother and sister to take the dance program but her instinct told her to try out acting. During her time in this program, she played several leads including Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker as well as Puck in a rock & roll version of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She was also 1 of 10 students selected throughout the state of NJ to be accepted into the acting intensive summer program called The Governor's School of The Arts. Adriana went on to study at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University with a demanding semester abroad at Shakespeare's Globe in London headed by Mark Rylance. Adriana booked her first role on Law & Order: Criminal Intent before she graduated college in 2003. Since then she has worked on various commercials, film, television, and theater including Terry Johnson's American premiere of "The Hitchcock Blonde", "Without A Trace", "30 Rock", 2015's Tribeca Film fest spotlight "The Wannabe" among others. Show less «