Spokeswoman Janet Daily said Monday that Roberts died overnight in her sleep in Los Angeles.
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Daily didn’t know the cause of Roberts’ death but said the veteran actress had been healthy and active. Peter Boyle, who played her endearing husband Frank, died in 2006.
She was nominated for seven Emmys in her lifetime and won four.
Besides her son, she is survived by her daughter-in-law, Jane, and three grandchildren, Kelsey, Andrew, and Devon Cannata.
Roberts found her signature role relatively late in her career, playing the loving but meddlesome mother Marie Barone in Ray Romano’s popular CBS sitcom, which ran from 1996 to 2005.
Born in St Louis, Missouri, Roberts spent 20 years on Broadway before making her mark on the big and small screens in the 1960s. When her mother moved to The Bronx, NY, and remarried, Doris took the name of her stepfather, Chester H. Roberts.
– Patricia Heaton (@PatriciaHeaton) April 18, 2016 #DorisRoberts you were one of the funniest people to work with, you lived life to the fullest in NZ. Her career on the stage included shows like The Desk Set, and The Last Of The Red Hot Lovers for which she was honoured with the Outer Critics Circle Award.
Award-winning Roberts passed away in Los Angeles on Sunday, TMZ reported. “I will miss her greatly and will always remember her incredible kindness, humor, talent and heart”.
“I don’t see anything on television that looks like love, or behaves like real love”.
“Doris Roberts had an energy and a spirit that amazed me”, costar Ray Romano said in a statement.
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According to Roberts’ fellow actor, “she never stopped”. She made her first film appearance in Something Wild (1961), a rape-and-revenge drama.
