DORIS ROBERTS
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Congratulations to Doris Roberts for winning Best Supporting
Actress in a Comedy Series for the third year in a row at the 2003 Emmy
Awards!! Doris won for her work on her hit series Everybody
Loves Raymond. The 2004 nominations will be announced in July.
Will Doris be nominated again? |
Biography
Doris Roberts was born November 4, 1930, in St. Louis, Missouri. Her long, distinguished
career began 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 continues to impress critics. It was recently released into
syndication, 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 and
2003.
With any luck, Doris will keep on delighting audiences in her current
comedic role and other roles for a long time to come.
Doris Roberts appeared September 25-29, 2000, on a special
Surivivor theme week of Hollywood Squares. Accompanying
Doris in the squares were four of the Survivors: Richard Hatch, Susan
Hawk, Jenna Lewis, and Gervase Peterson, and Hollywood Squares celebrity
family - center square Whoopi Goldberg, Bruce Villanch and Gilbert Gottfried. She still appears often on Hollywood Squares. Check local listings for airtimes or go to http://www.hollywoodsquares.com.
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Doris Roberts
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Doris's series,
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