Doris Roberts, the actress who played Ray’s overbearing mother on Everybody Loves Raymond, died on Monday, April 18, 2016. Her passing was announced, according to the show’s former spokeswoman. Roberts was 90 years old.
Roberts won four Emmy Awards for the show and was nominated for another three. She won her first Emmy in 1983 in St. Elsewhere.
She was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1925, then raised in The Bronx, New York by her mother and grandparents then also by her stepfather, whose last name she took.
Roberts has over 150 acting credits to her name, beginning in 1951 in Starlight Theatre. She appeared in episodes of Studio One in Hollywood, Naked City, The Defenders, Mary Tyler Moore, All in the Family, Barney Miller, Fantasy Island, St. Elsewhere, The Love Boat, Cagney & Lacey, Full House, Dream On, The Middle, and Melissa & Joey. She starred in the show Angie in 1979-1980, starred in Remington Steele from ’83 to ’87, and Everybody Loves Raymond from ’96 to ’05.
Her film credits include The Heartbreak Kid, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, It Happened One Christmas, My Giant, and Grandma’s Boy. Before starring as Patricia Heaton’s frustrating mother-in-law, she played Chevy Chase’s mother-in-law in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation in 1989.
Her last completed project was the TV movie Adam Astra Casting and she was working on The Escort, Old Soldiers, and The Red Maple Leaf.