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Veteran actress Doris Roberts was born November 4, 1930, in St. Louis, Missouri. She began her television career with a guest role on the show, Studio One in 1952, and has not stopped working since. She guest-starred in many series, including, Ben Casey, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Barney Miller, Soap, and The Love Boat, before she got the role that gave her her big break: Mildred Krebs on Remington Steele. She was cast in the role of Raymond's mother, Marie Barone, in the hit sitcom, Everybody Loves Raymond in 1996 -- a role that has won her two Emmy awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She also won an Emmy for a guest role as a homeless woman in an episode of St. Elsewhere. Roberts made many movies, both for television and the big screen, which include, Something Wild, The Heartbreak Kid, The Taking of Pelham, 1,2,3, Ruby and Oswald, The Grass Harp, My Giant, and All Over the Guy.

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Doris Roberts

  • Born: Nov 04, 1929 in St. Louis, Missouri
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '70s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
  • Career Highlights: Hester Street, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Honeymoon Killers
  • First Major Screen Credit: The Honeymoon Killers (1969)

Biography

In 1999, Doris Roberts achieved "overnight" stardom in the role of Marie Barone in the series Everybody Loves Raymond, going from working actress -- which she'd been for more than 40 years -- to being an instantly recognized performer. It was an improbable climb to the top rank of popular culture stardom. Roberts was born in St. Louis, MO, in 1929, to a family that was soon shattered when the father abandoned them. She had a difficult but loving childhood as her mother sought to provide for both of them by herself, and eventually Roberts gravitated toward the idea of an acting career. To do this, she had to work at any jobs that she could find, including clerk typist, to afford the lessons that she needed from teachers that included Lee Strasberg and Sanford Meisner.

She made her first television appearance in the early '50s, in a Studio One production of Jane Eyre, and made the usual rounds between theater and television. Her theatrical debut came on the a stage at New York's City Center in 1955, and she was Shirley Booth's understudy in the theatrical version of the comedy Desk Set. She distinguished herself in the role of Mommy in the original production of Edward Albee's The American Dream, and since the early '60s, had carved a niche for herself in maternal and neighborly roles, on both stage and screen. Following her screen debut in Jack Garfein's New York-filmed drama Something Wild (1961), she tended more toward comedy (albeit often black comedy), with performances in Jack Smight's No Way to Treat a Lady, where she played the skeptical onlooker whose questions and low-key intervention save the life of a would-be victim; Leonard Kastle's The Honeymoon Killers (1970), in which she played the roommate of the nurse-turned-murderer played by Shirley Stoler; and Alan Arkin's Little Murders (1971), where she played Elliott Gould's mother.

Female comics seemed to perceive Roberts' gifts as an actress especially well, as she got two of her better roles, in A New Leaf (1971) and Rabbit Test (1978), from Elaine May and Joan Rivers, respectively. Although she began appearing in television in the 1950s, with appearances on Ben Casey, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Baretta, All in the Family, The Streets of San Francisco, Rhoda, Soap, and Barney Miller, Roberts didn't start to make a lasting impression in the medium -- which would become her vehicle for stardom -- until the 1970s. She was supposed to have a role in a proposed new series starring Mary Tyler Moore, but when that series failed to sell, she was cast in the role of Donna Pescow's mother in the series Angie (1979), which got Roberts her first real notice by the public or the press. After that, the television appearances grew more frequent, and finally in 1983, she joined the cast of Remington Steele midway through the series' run, as Mildred Krebs, an IRS investigator-turned-secretary-turned-detective, working alongside Pierce Brosnan and Stephanie Zimbalist, and often stealing the show with her low-key comedic work. Roberts' first marriage ended in divorce, and her second, to novelist William Goyen, ended when he died in 1983 -- her son from her first marriage, Michael Cannata, has been her manager since the 1970s. It was a dozen years after Remington Steele, and some notable guest star appearances on shows like St. Elsewhere, that she landed the role of Marie on Everybody Loves Raymond. Since then, she has been a guest on talk shows and an acting celebrity, with a brace of Emmy nominations to her credit. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide

 
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Doris Roberts
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Roberts in a scene from Everybody Loves Raymond.
Birth name Doris May Metzler
Born November 4 1930 (1930--) (age 76)
St. Louis, Missouri

Doris May Roberts (b. November 4 1930, St. Louis, Missouri) is a five-time Emmy Award-winning American actress, best known for playing Marie Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond.

Biography

Early life

Doris Roberts was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1930 (some sources erroneously cite 1929); her father deserted the family when Roberts was a child, and her mother, Ann Meltzer, raised Doris with the help of her Jewish-American family in The Bronx, New York. Roberts has never revealed her father's name.

TV and Film Career

Her acting career began in 1952 with a role on the TV series Studio One. She also appeared on such programs as The Naked City (1958-63), Ben Casey (1963), and The Defenders (1962 - 1963). In 1961, she made her film debut in Something Wild (1961) starring Carroll Baker. In 1968, she appeared in A Lovely Way to Die and No Way to Treat a Lady.

She also appeared in the 1970 cult film The Honeymoon Killers starring Shirley Stoler and Tony Lo Bianco. In 1971, Roberts appeared in three films, Otto Preminger's Such Good Friends, Alan Arkin's Little Murders, and A New Leaf. She acted in a Walter Matthau vehicle again in 1974's urban thriller The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.

In 1978, she starred in a film about John F. Kennedy's assassination, Ruby and Oswald, in which she played Jack Ruby's sister. She also appeared very briefly in The Rose, as the mother of the title character (played by Bette Midler).

Since then, she has usually been cast as a mother or mother-in-law. An example of this was when she played newsstand owner, Theresa Falco, mother of Donna Pescow on Angie. After Angie was cancelled, she appeared as "Mildred Krebs" on Remington Steele, which starred Pierce Brosnan and Stephanie Zimbalist. After that show's cancellation, she starred in the TV movie remake of If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium (1987) and the National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) with Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo. She also appeared on Alice, playing the title character (played by former Broadway co-star Linda Lavin)'s mother, as well as Danny Tanner's mother on Full House.

Doris Roberts has become best-known and achieved national fame for her role as the nosy, insufferable, manipulative Marie Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond. She reportedly beat out 100 other actresses for the role. [1]

For her work on the series, she has been nominated for seven Emmy Awards (and won four times) for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.

She also won an Emmy for a guest role on St. Elsewhere as a homeless woman, and was nominated once for Remington Steele. She was also nominated for appearances on the ABC sitcom Perfect Strangers and a PBS special called The Sunset Gang. In 2003, she made a guest appearance as Gordo's grandmother in the Disney series, Lizzie McGuire. The same year, Roberts received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

In 2006, she starred in the Adam Sandler-produced comedy Grandma's Boy alongside such other veteran actresses as Shirley Jones and Shirley Knight. In 2007, she made a guest appearance on Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Stage career

Roberts' stage career began in the 1950s on Broadway. Roberts has appeared in numerous Broadway shows including the original productions of The Desk Set with Shirley Booth, Neil Simon's The Last of the Red Hot Lovers with James Coco and Linda Lavin as well as Terrence McNally's Bad Habits.

Personal life

Roberts' first husband was Michael Cannata; they divorced in 1962. Their son, Michael Cannata, Jr. is Roberts' manager, and is the father of her three grandchildren: Kelsey, Andrew, and Devon. Her second husband was writer William Goyen. She was married to Goyen from 1963 until his death from leukemia on August 30 1983 in Los Angeles.[2]

On September 4 2002, she testified before a U.S. Congressional panel that age discrimination is prevalent in Hollywood, advocating that such discrimination be treated on par with biases against race and gender.

As an avid cook, she wrote a book in 2005 titled Are You Hungry, Dear? Life, Laughs, and Lasagna, written with Danelle Morton and published by St. Martin's Press. She says of her book, "It's about sharing things I’ve learned that have changed my life." [citation needed]

An animal lover and advocate, she has worked with a group called "Puppies Behind Bars" that works with inmates in training guide dogs and assistance dogs for the physically disabled and elderly, as well as dogs trained in explosives detection to be used by the ATF and other law enforcement agencies. She also is active with the Children with AIDS Foundation, of which she has served as the chairwoman.

She currently lives in Los Angeles in a house once owned by screen legend James Dean [citation needed].

Emmy Award Nominations

For successful Emmy Awards, see the Infobox.

Unsuccessful nominations were :

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ Everybody Loves Raymond
  2. ^ Biodata

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