Doris Roberts, who delighted audiences as the meddling mother next door on Everybody Loves Raymond, has died, her representative told The Hollywood Reporter. She was 90. Roberts, who won Emmys for best supporting actress in a comedy for playing Marie Barone, the mother of Ray Romano’s sportswriter character, in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2005, died Sunday night in her sleep of natural causes in Los Angeles, Janet Daily said. In 1996, Roberts landed the part of Marie Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond, playing Ray’s mom and the wife of the cranky Frank (Peter Boyle). She was with the hit CBS sitcom for every one of the show’s nine seasons, covering 210 episodes. “When Peter Boyle and I met for the first time on the show it was as if we had known each other for 45 years,” she said in a 2014 interview with Parade magazine. “We got more laughs just giving each other dirty looks than anything else.” She was scheduled to appear at an Everybody Loves Raymond reunion in June in Austin. “Truly the end of an era,” Patricia Heaton, who did battle with Roberts as daughter-in-law Debra on the show, wrote on Twitter. “My wonderful TV mother-in-law and ELR nemesis Doris Roberts was a consummate professional from whom I learned so much. She was funny and tough and loved life, living it to the fullest.” Roberts once said she based Marie on a combination of Romano’s mother, an Italian, and series producer Phil Rosenthal’s mom, a German Jew. “Everything [Marie does, she does] because she wants them [the other characters] to make a better life, a better home,” she said. “It all comes from love. That’s why I’m very pleased and excited that I have that much of a contribution for that character that makes everyone laugh, because if you laugh at me, you can laugh at your own parents.” Wrote Rosenthal on Twitter: “We loved our mom, the great #DorisRoberts. A wonderful, funny, indelible actress and friend.” “Doris Roberts had an energy and a spirit that amazed me,” Romano said in a statement. “She never stopped. Whether working professionally or with her many charities, or just nurturing and mentoring a green young comic trying to make it as an actor, she did everything with such a grand love for life and people.” Roberts excelled in motherly roles throughout her career. She played Donna Pescow’s mother on the 1979-80 ABC series Angie, created by Garry Marshall, and joined NBC’s Remington Steele as Mildred Krebs, the receptionist for the detective agency run by Pierce Brosnan and Stephanie Zimbalist, in 1983. She stayed with the show through 1987. Roberts also won another Emmy in 1983 for a stint on St. Elsewhere. She received 11 noms in all, three more for Everybody Loves Raymond, one for Remington Steele and one apiece for Perfect Strangers and American Playhouse. A native of St. Louis who was raised in the Bronx after her father left the family when she was 10, Roberts made her Broadway debut in 1955 in The Time of Your Life, written by William Saroyan, and appeared in The Desk Set that year as well. She left New York when Lily Tomlin saw her in the Terrence McNally play Bad Habits — for which she won an Outer Critics Circle Award — and brought her to California to do ABC’s The Lily Tomlin Comedy Hour in 1975. Her big-screen résumé included Something Wild (1961), Barefoot in the Park (1967), The Honeymoon Killers (1969), A New Leaf (1971), The Heartbreak Kid (1972), Hester Street (1975), Rabbit Test (1978), The Rose (1979), National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989) and Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003). She reunited with Heaton on ABC’s The Middle for three episodes a few years ago and wrote a 2005 best-seller, Are You Hungry, Dear? Life, Laughs and Lasagna. Her marriage to novelist and short story writer William Goyen lasted 22 years until he died of leukemia in 1983 at age 68. Survivors include her son Michael, daughter-in-law Jane and grandchildren Kelsey, Andrew and Devon. Asked in the Parade interview why the audience seemed to identify with her, Roberts replied: “I’m not a bull artist. I tell it like it is. I’m not some celebrity thinking, ‘I’m greater than anybody else.’ I’m one of the people. And they know that. It’s wonderful when they say to me, ‘Thank you for the humor you’ve brought us all these years.’ I am a lucky son of a gun. I get paid for it.” Ryan Parker and Jennifer Konerman contributed to this report.
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TV, film and Broadway actress Doris Roberts, best known as Ray Romano’s (Raymond Barone) mother Marie on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, has died. Her son, Michael Cannata, says Roberts died in her sleep of natural causes Sunday night. She was 90. A St. Louis native, Roberts began her acting career in the early 1950s on TV’s Studio One, going on to appear in such series as The Naked City, Way Out, Ben Casey and The Defenders. She later segued to film in the 1960s and ’70s in titles such as A Lovely Way to Die, No Way to Treat a Lady, The Honeymoon Killers, Such Good Friends, Little Murders and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. However it was for her role as Marie Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond, which aired on CBS from 1996-2005, that she is best remembered. The role earned her seven Emmy nominations and four wins for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She was also nominated for the SAG Award three times and received the award for Best Ensemble. She also had a guest role on All in the Family, played Theresa Falco on Angie and Mildred Krebs on Remington Steele, for which she was Emmy nominated. She also won an Emmy for a guest appearance on St. Elsewhere and was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for the American Playhouse production of The Sunset Gang. She also guest starred on Desperate Housewives, The King of Queens, The Middle, Grey’s Anatomy, Law & Order: SVU, among many other hit series. Roberts starred in the TV movie remake of If It’s Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium (1987) and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989). She also appeared on Alice, Barney Miller and on Full House as Danny Tanner’s mother Claire. Her other roles include Flo Flotsky on four episodes of Soap, faith healer Dorelda Doremus on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, and lonely Aunt Edna on Step by Step. She appeared just this year in a Doritos Super Bowl commercial. Roberts stage career included numerous Broadway shows, including The Desk Set, Neil Simon’s The Last of the Red Hot Lovers and Terrence McNally’s Bad Habits. She last starred in McNally’s Unusual Acts of Devotion at the LaJolla Playhouse in June 2009. Here’s a clip of Roberts in the Doritos Super Bowl commercial:  Doris Roberts, the Emmy-winning character actress best known for her role as Ray Romano’s tart-tongued, interfering mother on the hit CBS series “Everybody Loves Raymond,” died on Sunday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 90. Ms. Roberts died in her sleep, said a family spokeswoman, Janet Daily. Originally trained as a stage actress, Ms. Roberts found particular acclaim on the screen, often playing mothers and grandmothers who radiated dyspeptic wisecracking warmth: Over time, she did duty as the mothers of Tony Danza, Billy Crystal, Bette Midler and Marlo Thomas, among many others. In the 1980s, she was known for her portrayal of Mildred Krebs, the irreverent secretary on “Remington Steele,” the comic detective series starring Pierce Brosnan and Stephanie Zimbalist. But she was most renowned as Marie Barone, the overbearing matriarch on “Everybody Loves Raymond,” originally broadcast from 1996 to 2005 and still seen round the world in syndication. “I can’t go anywhere without being recognized from the sitcom,” Ms. Roberts told the magazine Today’s Woman in 2008. “For example, while filming ‘They Came From Upstairs’” — shot in New Zealand and released in 2009 as “Aliens in the Attic” — “a lovely older couple from Siberia came up to me and announced that they watch ‘Raymond’ every night!” For her role on the show, which required her to project an exquisite combination of officiousness and deliciousness, Ms. Roberts was awarded four of her five Emmys. Doris Roberts and James Coco received Emmy Awards for their roles in a 1982 episode of the television series “St. Elsewhere.”Credit...Associated Press Viewers particularly cherished Marie’s satisfyingly caustic onscreen banter with Peter Boyle, who played her long-suffering, equally dyspeptic husband, Frank. Ms. Roberts was also awarded an Emmy in 1983 for a guest appearance on the NBC medical drama “St. Elsewhere.” In that episode, first broadcast in 1982, she played one half of a homeless couple, opposite James Coco. But despite that accolade, she was cast overwhelmingly in light fare, a predicament that sometimes rankled. “I won an Emmy for a dramatic role on ‘St. Elsewhere,’” Ms. Roberts told The Los Angeles Times in 1991. Since then, she continued: “I have yet to be given a dramatic role in this town. Comedy is what they put me in.” Doris May Green was born in St. Louis on Nov. 4, 1925, the daughter of Larry Green and the former Ann Meltzer. Her father left the family when Doris was a child, and she was reared in the Bronx by her mother. She later took the surname of her stepfather, Chester Roberts. Ms. Roberts briefly attended N.Y.U. before studying acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse in Manhattan. She later trained at the Actors Studio, where her cohort included Anne Bancroft, Martin Balsam and Marilyn Monroe. She made her Broadway debut as a young streetwalker in a 1955 revival of William Saroyan’s comedy “The Time of Your Life” that starred Franchot Tone, Gloria Vanderbilt and John Carradine. Her other Broadway credits include “Marathon ’33,” a 1963 play written and directed by June Havoc; Neil Simon’s comedy “Last of the Red Hot Lovers,” which opened in 1969 and ran for 706 performances; and two plays by Terrence McNally, “Ravenswood” and “Dunelawn,” staged together in 1974 under the rubric “Bad Habits.” Doris Roberts in Los Angeles in 2003.Credit...Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images For “Bad Habits,” Ms. Roberts won an Outer Critics Circle Award. Ms. Roberts was originally cast as Bea Arthur’s friend Vivian in the 1970s Norman Lear sitcom “Maude,” but she was replaced by Rue McClanahan after producers concluded that her screen persona resembled Ms. Arthur’s too closely. She had recurring roles on several television series, including “Soap” and “Angie”; starred in many TV movies; and played guest roles on a spate of series, among them “Naked City,” “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “All in the Family,” “Cagney & Lacey” and “Murder, She Wrote.” Her films credits include “The Honeymoon Killers” (1969), “A New Leaf” (1971), “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” (1974) and “Hester Street” (1975). As outspoken as her best-known character (though demonstrably less choleric), Ms. Roberts was an advocate for many causes, including animal rights and the fight against ageism. An ardent cook, Ms. Roberts was the author of “Are You Hungry, Dear? Life, Laughs, and Lasagna” (2003), a memoir, with recipes, written with Danelle Morton. Ms. Roberts’s first marriage, to Michael Emilio Cannata, ended in divorce. Her second husband, William Goyen, a novelist and playwright, died in 1983. Survivors include a son, Michael Robert Cannata, and three grandchildren. She also had a home in Manhattan. Despite her desire to be cast in more serious roles, Ms. Roberts had a gift for mining humor from the darkest situations. She made this plain in a Jewish Virtual Library interview, in which she recounted the final illness of her second husband. “He was dying, and he looked at me and said, ‘I just worry about you, I wonder how ...’ Then he stopped in the middle of the sentence. He looked me in the face and said, ‘You know, on second thought, that will be your problem.’” |
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