25 Movie Talents We Lost In 2016
7. Doris Roberts
Although she’s probably best known for her role as overbearing Italian-American matriarch Marie Barone in the long-running sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, Doris Roberts also enjoyed a long and fruitful career in the movie industry too.
During the 1960s and 1970s, she performed in a number of movies that have since achieved cult film status including No Way to Treat a Lady, The Honeymoon Killers and Little Murders and in the BAFTA nominated thriller The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and Academy Award nominated Janis Joplin inspired drama The Rose.
From the late 1980s onwards,
Roberts stuck mainly to comedy appearing in films like National Lampoon’s Christmas
Vacation, kid’s sci-fi comedy Aliens in the Attic and Tyler Perry’s Madea’s
Witness Protection.