Doris Roberts
American actress (1925–2016) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Doris May Roberts (née Green; November 4, 1925[citation needed] – April 17, 2016) was an American actress whose career spanned seven decades of television and film. She received five Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild award during her acting career, which began in 1951.
Doris Roberts | |
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Born | Doris May Green (1925-11-04)November 4, 1925 |
Died | April 17, 2016(2016-04-17) (aged 90) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Resting place | Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1951–2016 |
Spouses | |
Children | 1 |
Roberts studied acting at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City and started in films in 1961. She had several prominent film roles, including playing opposite Shirley Stoler in The Honeymoon Killers (1970), Elliott Gould in Little Murders (1971), Steven Keats in Hester Street (1975), Billy Crystal in Rabbit Test (1978), Robert Carradine in Number One with a Bullet (1987), Cady McClain in Simple Justice (1989), among many others.
She achieved continuing success in television, becoming known for her role as Mildred Krebs in NBC's Remington Steele from 1983 to 1987 and her co-starring role as Raymond Barone's mother, Marie Barone, on the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond (1996–2005). Towards the end of her acting career, she also had a prominent role opposite Tyler Perry in Madea's Witness Protection (2012).
She appeared as a guest on many talk and variety shows, as well as a panelist on several game shows. She was an advocate of animal rights and animal rights activism, supporting groups such as the United Activists for Animal Rights.