Doris Roberts #1
Doris Roberts #1
Everybody Loves Raymond, Remington Steele
Doris Roberts is an Emmy Award-winning actress probably best known for her role of meddling mother Marie Barone on the hit television comedy Everybody Loves Raymond.
Her career began with a mix of television and theater, appearing in such varied works as a TV production of Jane Eyre and a theatrical version of the comedy Desk Set. She soon found her niche playing motherly roles, starting with Edward Albee's The American Dream. She made her film debut in 1961's Something Wild, which was followed by The Honeymoon Killers in 1970, A New Leaf in 1971, and Rabbit Test in 1978.
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, Doris 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.
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.
Doris has won 5 Emmy Awards, one for St. Elsewhere and 4 for Everybody Loves Raymond.
Doris Roberts will be part of Nora and Delia Ephron's Love, Loss, and What I Wore at the Westside Theatre beginning April 28 through May 23, 2010. The theatre is located at 407 West 43rd Street in Manhattan.
Doris Roberts at the Internet Movie Database