Ray Romano
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Raymond Romano (born December 21, 1957 in Queens, New York) is an Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated, American actor and comedian best known for his starring role on the long-running CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond. His other notable roles include Manfred "Manny" the Mammoth (“Ice Age, Ice Age: The Meltdown), and Handy Harrison (Welcome to Mooseport).
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[edit] Personal life
Romano, an Italian American, was born in Queens, New York to Albert and Lucie Romano. He grew up in the Queens neighborhood of Forest Hills.[1] Romano attended elementary and middle school at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs in Forest Hills. After transferring from Archbishop Molloy High School, Romano graduated from Hillcrest High School in 1975.[2] He was in the same high school class as Fran Drescher and later appeared on Drescher's sitcom The Nanny as an old classmate. Before breaking into show business, Romano briefly attended Queens College in Flushing, New York where he had studied classical music, hoping one day to become a professional pianist. His mother is a Juilliard-trained pianist.
Romano married his wife Anna Scarpulla (born 1963) in 1987. Together, they have four children: one daughter Alexandra (born 1990), and three sons: twins Matthew & Gregory (born 1993) and Joseph Raymond (born February 16, 1998).
[edit] Career
He started his comedy career appearing on many outlets including Comedy Central, where he had been a recurring guest voice on the show Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist. He also was a contestant on Star Search in the stand-up comedy category. He was originally cast to play "Joe" on the American television sitcom NewsRadio, but was fired, to be replaced by Joe Rogan. Shortly thereafter, he became the star of his own show, Everybody Loves Raymond, that featured a cast and format more suitable to Romano's brand of humor.
Ray and his comedian friend Kevin James starred in the salesman comedy Grilled, as two guys of the same profession who are both very desperate to land a big sale.
Romano was featured on a 2000 episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, on which he won US$125,000 for the NYPD's D.A.R.E. Unit.
In 2001, he was named one of E!'s top twenty entertainers of the year. In the same year, he was featured with his brother (a teacher at a school in Long Island) on a New York Police Department recruiting poster.
In 2004, he became the highest paid television actor in history for his role of Raymond on CBS's Everybody Loves Raymond. It was later revealed on E! that he had broken another record by his show having the highest revenue, at US$3.9 billion.
On December 13 2003, he was featured as a special guest star, sending a birthday card to Bob Barker in his eightieth-birthday bash on the seventh "Million Dollar Spectacular" special of the long-running daytime CBS series The Price Is Right.
Romano was the subject of the documentary film 95 MILES TO GO. The film documents Romano's road-trip for a series of gigs across the South. The film was released in theaters on April 7, 2006 by ThinkFILM [1].
In August of 2006, Romano was interviewed in front of a live audience at UCLA by fellow stand-up veteran, David Steinberg, for an episode of Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg. The program first aired on the TV Land network in March 2007.
[edit] Filmography
[edit] Acting
- Ice Age 3 (2009) (voice) movie – Manny
- Hannah Montana (2008) (guest star)
- The Last Word (2007)
- The Grand (2007)
- 'Til Death (2007) Man in restaurant that talks to Eddie (Brad Garrett) and his wife.
- The Knights of Prosperity (2007)
- The King of Queens (1998-2007) (guest star) TV series – Raymond Barone
- Grilled (2006) movie – Maurice
- Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) (voice) movie – Manny
- Making the Cut (2006) HBO documentary; himself
- Everybody Loves Raymond (1996-2005) TV series – Raymond Barone
- The Simpsons (2005) (guest voice) TV series – Ray Magini (appeared in "Don't Fear the Roofer", as Homer Simpson's supposedly imaginary friend)
- 95 Miles to Go (2004) movie – himself
- Eulogy (2004) movie – Skip Collins
- Welcome to Mooseport (2004) movie – Handy Harrison
- Ice Age (2002) (voice) movie – Manny
- The Nanny (guest star) TV Series – Raymond Barone
- Cosby (guest star) TV Series – Raymond Barone
[edit] Writing
- Everybody Loves Raymond (1996–2005)
[edit] Bibliography
Everything and a Kite, 1999, Bantam Books. "Raymie, Dickie and the Bean," 2005, Simon & Schuster "Everybody Loves Raymond: Our Family Album," 2004, Pocket Books "Live At Carnegie Hall," (CD), 2001, Sony
[edit] References
- ^ Strickland, Carol. "Can Sitcom Make It With L.I. Setting?", The New York Times, December 1, 1996. Accessed November 12, 2007. "For Everybody Loves Raymond, the route to Hollywood Hills began in Forest Hills, where Ray Romano, a standup comedian and the star of the show, grew up."
- ^ Yahoo Movies - Ray Romano. Retrieved on 2006-08-23.
[edit] External links
- Ray Romano at the Internet Movie Database
- Official Site
- Ray Romano interviewbg:Рей Романо
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