Dolores Catania

Dolores Catania is an American television personality, entrepreneur and philanthropist, best known as a main cast member of the Bravo reality series The Real Housewives of New Jersey since its seventh season in 2016. In 2025 she was one of the four winners of the third season of The Traitors on Peacock.

Career

Catania grew up in Paterson, New Jersey, the daughter of a police chief, and worked as a waitress, a corrections officer, a realtor and a surgical assistant before joining the Bravo show, according to Bravo and the New York Post. She opened the Powerhouse Fitness Center gym in Whippany, New Jersey, in February 2017 and appeared in the 2018 short film Breaking Points. In Bravo's 2018 Real Housewives Awards, fans voted her Miss Congeniality.

On The Traitors, she played as a Faithful and shared the season 3 prize with Dylan Efron, Gabby Windey and Ivar Mountbatten. In November 2025 Bravo announced her as a "friend of" the cast of the first season of The Real Housewives of Rhode Island.

Charity

Since 2017 she has hosted an annual charity softball game, the Battle for Brooklyn, for Maimonides Medical Center's breast cancer care, and the hospital gave her its Pink Ambassador of Hope Award in 2020.