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A Broadway farewell to Doris Roberts will be held Monday, May 16. The tribute to the Emmy-winning actress and stage veteran, to be held at the Ambassador Theatre on West 49th Street, will be hosted by Everybody Loves Raymond star Ray Romano. The program, which will be open to the public, will include a special…

For Phil Rosenthal, Doris Roberts was like a mother. Even more, she was his mother. The Everybody Loves Raymond creator loosely based the character of Raymond’s mom in the CBS sitcom on his own mother. He saw about 100 women — “every character actress of that certain age” — for the role. “Doris hit it out of the park…

Refresh for updates… Friends, fans, co-stars and her Everybody Loves Raymond colleagues are posting remembrances of Doris Roberts, who died today at 90. Ray Romano, star and EP of Everybody Loves Raymond: Doris Roberts had an energy and a spirit that amazed me.  She never stopped.  Whether working professionally or…

TV, film and Broadway actress Doris Roberts, best known as Ray Romano’s (Raymond Barone) mother Marie on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, has died. Her son, Michael Cannata, says Roberts died in her sleep of natural causes Sunday night. She was 90. A St. Louis native, Roberts began her acting career in the early…

UPDATED: Sawyer Sweeten and his twin brother Sullivan were one year old when they were cast, along with their older sister Madylin, on the CBS family comedy Everybody Loves Raymond, inspired by the life of star Ray Romano, also a father of twins. The Sweeten brothers spent virtually their entire childhood on the set…

Emmy-winning Everybody Loves Raymond co-star Doris Roberts is returning to active series duty with a co-starring role in ABC’s multi-camera comedy pilot Counter Culture. Written and executive produced by writer-actress Stephnie Weir and executive produced by Claudia Lonow, Counter Culture revolves around three aging…