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

Everybody Loves Raymond

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 from 1996–2005.
Doris Roberts was born in St. Louis, Missouri

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. Her mother, Ann Meltzer, raised Roberts in the Jewish

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 faith in the New York City

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 borough of The Bronx

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 with the assistance of her own parents, after her husband, whose name may have been Larry Meltzer or Larry Green, deserted the family.