Doris Roberts

Her favourite comedian is Ray Romano.

Her favourite movie is Gone With the Wind.

She says her favourite food would be a man dipped in chocolate.

She is active with the Children with AIDS Foundation, of which she has served as the chairwoman.

An animal lover and advocate, she has worked with a group called "Puppies Behind Bars" that works with inmates in training guide dogs and assistance dogs for the physically disabled and elderly, as well as dogs trained in explosives detection to be used by the ATF and other law enforcement agencies.

As an avid cook, she wrote a book in 2005 titled Are You Hungry, Dear? Life, Laughs, and Lasagna, written with Danelle Morton and published by St Martin's Press. She says of her book, "It's about sharing things I've learned that have changed my life."

On September 4, 2002, she testified before a U.S. Congressional panel that age discrimination is prevalent in Hollywood, advocating that such discrimination be treated on par with biases against race and gender.

Roberts' second husband was writer William Goyen, reputedly a bisexual (according to Boze Hadleigh). She was married to Goyen from 1963 until his death from leukemia on August 30, 1983 in Los Angeles, California.

Her first husband was Michael Cannata; they divorced in 1962. Their son, Michael Cannata, Jr. is Roberts' manager, and is the father of her three grandchildren: Kelsey, Andrew, and Devon.

She began appearing on Broadway in the 1950s.

She guest-starred in episode "Rayny Day" of The King of Queens as Marie Barone, her character from Everybody Loves Raymond.

Her career began in 1952 with a guest role on the TV series Studio One.

Roberts' father deserted the family when Roberts was a child, and her mother, Ann Melzer, raised Doris on her own in Bronx, New York. Roberts has never revealed her father's name and essentially has distanced herself from him and from that part of her life.

Doris's son, Michael Cannata, is her manager. He has three children.

She lives in a home once owned by James Dean.

She beat out 100 other actresses for her role on Everybody Loves Raymond.

She was pranked on an episode of Candid Camera. Also pranked in the same episode was Ray Romano (her Everybody Loves Raymond co-star).

She began her book tour May 6 2003, signing copies of her book at Border's Books store at 7PM in Braintree, Massachusetts.

She did an interview with Good Day Live in March, 2003 and mentioned she wrote a book that would be published in May 2003.

She received a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame in February, 2003.

She has three grandchildren.

She is good friends with Jean Stapleton.

Doris Roberts mentioned in an interview that she enjoys playing Marie in Everybody Loves Raymond and she would do a spin-off series or another series when the show finishes if they asked her.

She went to Hollywood when Lily Tomlin saw her on the New York stage in Bad Habits she asked her to be a regular on her new series The Lily Tomlin Comedy Hour the show won a lot of Emmys but wasn't picked up.

She mentioned in a interview that her granddaughter was born July 4, 1989.

In 1999, she won an American Comedy Award for Everybody Loves Raymond.

She won her first Emmy in 1983 for a guest appearance on St. Elsewhere. Her second came in 2001 when she won for playing Marie Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond.