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Everybody Loves Raymond star dies

AFP
Published : Apr 20, 2016, 6:12 am IST
Updated : Apr 20, 2016, 6:12 am IST

Tributes poured in on Monday for Emmy-winning actress Doris Roberts, the star of US sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, who has died aged 90.

Tributes poured in on Monday for Emmy-winning actress Doris Roberts, the star of US sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, who has died aged 90.

Roberts picked up best supporting actress four times in the early 2000s for her portrayal of Marie Barone, the mother of Ray Romano’s sportswriter character in the show, which ran for nine seasons. “Truly the end of an era,” said Patricia Heaton, who played Roberts’ TV daughter-in-law. Roberts died of natural causes on Sunday in her hometown of Los Angeles. “My wonderful TV mother-in-law and ELR (Everbody Loves Raymond) 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 joined the CBS show in 1995, having carved a niche in matriarchal roles in the 1980s, including as Donna Pescow’s mother on the 1979-80 ABC series Angie and as receptionist Mildred Krebs on NBC detective series Remington Steele. She won her first of five Emmys in 1983 for a one-season guest role on medical drama St. Elsewhere. Raised by her single mother in the Bronx, Roberts got her break on Broadway in the play The Time of Your Life in 1955. She moved to California to appear in ABC’s The Lily Tomlin Comedy Hour in 1975. She appeared in 34 films over more than half a century.

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