DORIS ROBERTS

Congratulations to Doris Roberts for winning her fourth Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series award at the 2005 Primetime Emmy Awards!! Doris won for her work on her hit series Everybody Loves Raymond, which is now in syndication and on DVD.

Biography

Doris Roberts was born Nov. 4, 1930, in St. Louis, Missouri. Her long, distinguished career begain in 1952 with a guest role on the TV series Studio One. Doris settled into the guest niche with four other TV series appearances, on The Naked City in 1952, Ben Casey in 1963 and twice on The Defenders, in 1962 and again in 1963.

Doris' film debut came in 1961 with a role in Something Wild. She continued her career on the big screen in 1968 with the films A Lovely Way to Die and No Way to Treat a Lady, a film co-starring Rod Steiger and Lee Remick. In 1971, she starred in three films, Such Good Friends, Little Murders and A New Leaf with Walter Matthau.

Doris got her first taste of television in the form of TV movies. She starred in 1977's The Storyteller, and in 1978, she starred in a film about the circumstances surrounding JFK's assassination, Ruby and Oswald.

Some of her better feature films of the '70s include The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, which she starred again with Walter Matthau, and The Rose, which she played the mother of the title character, played by Bette Midler.

In 1979, Doris got her first role in a TV series when she starred opposite Donna Pascow in Angie. However, the series was quickly cancelled.

After a turn in the acclaimed movie The Diary of Anne Frank with a young Melissa Gilbert, Doris again tried her hand at working in a TV series, this time in Maggie in 1981. But again, the series was short-lived.

Doris finally got her big break in TV series when she took the role of secretary Mildred Krebs on the hit NBC series Remington Steele. Doris came on in the second season of the series, and stayed until the end -- both of them. She was nominated for an Emmy Award during her run on the series. Doris did win an Emmy during this time, but it wasn't for Remington. She won her award for a guest appearance on another MTM series, St. Elsewhere. She guest-starred as a homeless woman.

During her four-year stint on Remington, she continued to star in TV movies, including Another Woman's Child in 1983, A Letter to Three Wives with Remington co-star Stephanie Zimbalist in 1985, and California Girls, also in 1985. She also starred in 1986's Ordinary Heroes with Richard Dean Anderson.

After Remington's cancellation, Doris kept busy with films both on TV and the big screen. She starred in the star-studded TV movie If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium in 1987 and the motion picture National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation in 1989 with Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo.

In 1993, Doris returned to work in a TV series with a role in The Boys, which turned out to be yet another short-lived comedy.

Doris dotted her resume with TV's A Time to Heal in 1994 and the feature film The Grass Harp in 1995, a star-studded event that reunited her once again with Walter Matthau. In 1996, Doris took a role in yet another TV series, Everybody Loves Raymond. The series stars comedian Ray Romano, who lives across the street from his nosy parents, played by Doris and Peter Boyle. The series began it's run on CBS on Friday nights, a time slot considered one of the worst of the week. However, the series held its own, and was favored greatly by the critics. Doris received quite a bit of this praise in her role of busybody Marie Barone. In 1997, the series was moved to Monday nights, where it has enjoyed good ratings, and continued to impress critics. The show ended its run in 2005. It was recently released into syndication and on DVD, where it is enjoying immense success. She has also made several guest appearances on the syndicated game show Hollywood Squares.

Doris won the 2001 TV Guide award for Supporting Actress of the Year in a Comedy Series for her Raymond role. On Nov. 5, 2001, her 71st birthday, Doris won an Emmy award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role on Raymond. She won the Supporting Actress award again in 2002, 2003 and 2005 — four Emmys in six straight years of nominations.

With any luck, Doris will keep on delighting audiences for a long time to come.

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