Emmy-award winning actress Doris Roberts, star of Everybody Loves Raymond, has passed away.
According to TMZ, she passed away in Los Angeles. She was 90 years old.
Roberts received five Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild award during her acting career, which began in 1951. She is perhaps best known for her role as Raymond Barone’s mother, Marie Barone, on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond.
Roberts was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Her mother, Ann Meltzer, who was of Jewish and Russian descent, raised Roberts in the The Bronx, New York with the assistance of her own parents, after her husband Larry deserted the family.
Roberts’ stepfather, whose surname she took as her own, was Chester H. Roberts. Chester and Roberts’ mother operated the Z.L. Rosenfield Agency, a stenographic service catering to playwrights and actors.
