Roberts scored critical notice in 1975 for 'Hester Street,' the Joan Micklin Silver movie about life on the Lower East Side of Manhattan at the turn of the century. The same year, she had a memorable film role as the New York City mayor's ambitious wife in 'The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3' (1974). Notable stage performances of the era included a featured role in Neil Simon's 'Last of the Red Hot Lovers' (1969), Paul Zindel's 'The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild' (1972) and Terrence McNally's 'Bad Habits' (1974), for which Roberts earned an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress. She made her professional stage debut at City Center in 1955 in William Saroyan's 'The Time of Your Life' and began to pick up character roles on New York-based soaps and live television dramas, as well as in films including 'The Out-of-Towners' (1964), 'Barefoot in the Park' (1967) and the cult classic 'The Honeymoon Killers' (1970). She spent a short time pursuing journalism at New York University but her dramatic flair led her to abandon that pursuit to study acting with Sanford Meisner at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse School and with Lee Strasberg at the famed Actor's Studio.

Roberts herself was interested in the entertainment world, and often cut school to indulge in matinees at the cinema or theater. 4, 1930, Roberts was raised in the Bronx, NY where her mother ran a stenography service that catered to the theater community. Doris Roberts died in Los Angeles on April 17, 2016. Well past the common age of retirement and well past the show's celebrated end, Roberts maintained a reputation as one of the big and small screen's most iconic mothers, and she continued to be a welcome sight as a television guest star and film player. The show became of the best-loved sitcoms in history, and Roberts earned seven Emmy nominations and four wins for her colorful characterization. Roberts built up some face recognition with regular appearances in the sitcoms 'Mary Hartman Mary Hartman' (syndicated, 1976-77) and 'Angie' (ABC, 1979-1980) but truly came into her own as a widely known comedienne in 1995 when she was cast as the meddling, strong-willed family matriarch on 'Everybody Loves Raymond' (CBS, 1996-2005).

A versatile player with an inescapably 'mom-like' presence, she was adept at playing sympathetic roles but made her most memorable mark as hard-boiled dames, gossips, and nags who were often too savvy of the ways of the world to be fooled by anyone. Doris Roberts was a 20-year veteran of the Broadway stage before she began appearing steadily in character roles in film and on television during the 1970s.

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