Drea de Matteo, who plays Wendy Case, has been given the green light for a promotion to series regular in the upcoming final season of "Sons of Anarchy."
After six seasons of semi-regular appearances on the hit television drama, de Matteo will be given more time to shine onscreen in "Sons of Anarchy" as the 41-year-old actress has been upped to regular cast status this time.
The promotion may have been due to the loss of two of the show's mainstays, following the shocking turn of events in the previous season with the deaths of Ron Perlman's character Clay and Tara, played by Maggie Siff.
Drea de Matteo, who scored herself an Emmy in 1999 for her stellar acting on "The Sopranos," will be returning as Wendy Case, a drug junkie and Jax's (Charlie Hunnam) estranged former wife since the first season of the show.
After the loss of Tara who was Jax's second wife in the previous season's finale, Wendy might be given a bigger part to play in the life of their son and on the television show.
Aside from her work on "The Sopranos," Drea de Matteo also made guest appearances on "Desperate Housewives" and "Joey."
The actress also recently guest starred in one of the episodes of "The Mindy Project."
Fans of Sons of Anarchy can look forward to the aftermath of Tara's death and how it will have a major impact on Jax and the show when it returns for its final run.
"I wanted to remove [Jax's] 'True North,' because I feel like there needs to be this major psychic and emotional shift that has to happen. What direction it will push him in we will see next season," said Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter. "But what happens to a guy like that now that he's lost both of the people he loves the most, who were able to be his moral compass, with Opie and now Tara. It really is Jax completely untethered and on his own in the final season."
The first episode of the Sons of Anarchy's seventh and final season will premiere sometime this fall on FX.
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