Doris Roberts

Doris Roberts

CountryUnited States United States
GenderFemale
BirthdayNov 4, 1925
Death2016-04-17
BiographyDoris May Roberts (née Green; November 4, 1925 – April 17, 2016) was an American actress and comedian whose career spanned seven decades of television and film. She received five Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild award during her acting career, which began in 1948.

Roberts studied acting at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City and started in films in 1961. She had several prominent film roles, including playing opposite Shirley Stoler in The Honeymoon Killers (1970), Elliott Gould in Little Murders (1971), Carol Kane in Hester Street (1975), Billy Crystal in Rabbit Test (1978), Robert Carradine in Number One with a Bullet (1987), Cady McClain in Simple Justice (1989), among many others.

Roberts achieved continuing success in television, becoming known for her role as Mildred Krebs in NBC's Remington Steele from 1983 to 1987 and achieved worldwide recognition for her co-starring role as the matriarch, Marie Barone, on the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond (1996–2005). Towards the end of her acting career, Roberts also had a prominent role opposite Tyler Perry in Madea's Witness Protection (2012), and The Middle.

Roberts appeared as a guest on many talk and variety shows, as well as a panelist on several game shows. She was an advocate of animal rights and animal rights activism, supporting groups such as the United Activists for Animal Rights.

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