Emmy winning actress Doris Roberts has passed away at the age of 90.
Roberts, who played the cantankerous mother in Everybody Loves Raymond, died in her sleep of natural causes at home in Los Angeles on Sunday.
During her 64-year career, she swept up five Emmys - four for Raymond, one for the TV hit St Elsewhere in 1982.
She is survived by her son Michael Cannata Jr and three grandchildren.
Ray Romano, who played Raymond in the nine-season sitcom, led tributes to his former co-star on Monday, gushing about her admirable spirit and energy.
'She never stopped. Whether working professionally or with her many charities, or just nurturing and mentoring a young, green comic trying to make it as an actor, she did it all with such a grand love for life and people and I will miss her dearly.'
Roberts had recently completed four projects - one TV movie, two movies, and a short film - which will be released posthumously.
The actress was born in St Louis on November 4, 1925, in St Louis, Missouri. She moved to New York shortly after, where she grew up.
She carved out a career later in life as a bawdy matriarch in such films as Grandma's Boy (2006).
It all began in 1952 when she was cast in the television series Studio One.
She went on to star in various popular TV shows before making her big screen debut in 1961's Something Wild.
Among her many on-screen and on-stage roles, Roberts was known for her performance in the detective series Remington Steele.
Her first Emmy was for her one-episode role as a patient in St Elsewhere in the 1980s, winning the gong for Outstanding Supporting Actress.
The show starred Denzel Washington.
In 1996, she took up the role of the mother in Everybody Loves Raymond on CBS. The show ran until 2005.
Roberts once said she based her vivacious character on the real-life mothers of the show's star Ray Romano and the show's creator Phil Rosenthal.
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