Doris Roberts

Doris Roberts is an American character actress of film, stage and television. She has received five Emmy Awards. She began her career in 1952, and may be best known as Marie Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond from 1996 to 2005. Doris Roberts was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Her mother, Ann Meltzer, raised Roberts in the Jewish faith in the New York City borough of The Bronx with the assistance of her own parents, after her husband, whose name may have been Larry Meltzer or Larry Green, deserted the family. Doris' stepfather, whose surname she took as her own, was Chester H. Roberts. Chester... and Ann Roberts operated the Z.L. Rosenfield Agency, a stenographic service catering to playwrights and actors. Roberts' acting career began in 1952 with a role on the TV series Studio One. She appeared in episodes of The Naked City , Way Out , Ben Casey , and The Defenders . In 1961, she made her film debut in Something Wild. She appeared in such 1960s and 1970s cult films as A Lovely Way to Die, No Way to Treat a Lady, The Honeymoon Killers, Such Good Friends, Little Murders, A New Leaf and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.
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