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When Ray Romano needed inspiration for his CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, he didn’t have to look far from home. The stand-up comic wasn’t a trained actor, so the series was built around familiar aspects of his own life — a wife and three young children, with meddling parents and an older brother living nearby.
The result was that the Barones of Long Island felt like a real family that we visited every week for nine seasons.
Mediating between his harried wife Debra (Patricia Heaton), overbearing mother Marie (Doris Roberts), grouchy father Frank (Peter Boyle), and gloomy brother Robert (Brad Garrett), Ray always had a lot on his plate. Here’s a look at what happened to this lovably fractious family since they left our TV screens in 2005.
Ray Romano won an Emmy for playing Ray, an insecure sportswriter often caught in the middle between warring family members.
Kids may recognize his voice as Manny the woolly mammoth in the Ice Age franchise, while adults have seen Romano transition from sitcom hijinks to more dramatic fare. He reflected on his post-Raymond life by creating and starring on the dramedy Men of a Certain Age (2009–2011) with Andre Braugher and Scott Bakula, then joined the cast of Parenthood (2012–2015).
The Queens native paired up with Holly Hunter as lovable would-be in-laws in The Big Sick (2017), played a mob lawyer in Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman (2019), and starred alongside Hugh Jackman in HBO’s acclaimed Bad Education (2019). The small-screen vet also booked regular roles on Vinyl (2016) and Get Shorty (2017–2019). He recently went behind the camera for his directorial debut, Somewhere in Queens (2022), in which he starred alongside Laurie Metcalf.
While Romano’s post-Raymond career has kept him busy — including a role in the main cast of Netflix’s No Good Deed (2024) — he has been intentional about not repeating himself with another sitcom.
“I don’t want to have to follow that. I like that it still holds up. It still resonates,” he told EW in 2019. “The secret was just writing about things that relate to us, and that’s half the battle. When people can relate to it and see themselves, then the comedy is much easier.”
Romano married Anna Scarpulla in 1987. They have four children: Alexandra, Gregory, Matthew, and Joseph.
Patricia Heaton picked up back-to-back Emmys as Debra, a housewife who found it hard to get along with her inescapable in-laws.
As Heaton remembers it, her audition captured the spirit of the character.
“I was in a big hurry because I had a babysitting conflict with my husband,” she told EW in 2005. “Even though he’s British, and Ray is from Queens, they have this universal male idiocy that crosses all continents. I had a certain amount of impatience I put into the reading that worked.”
The actress was already a familiar face on TV, having appeared in a recurring role on Thirtysomething (1989–1991) and snagged a lead on Room for Two (1992–1993). But Raymond made her a household name — though her popularity far outlived that signature role.
When the series ended, it wasn’t long before she headlined her own hit sitcom, The Middle (2009–2018). During that time, she produced a Food Network cooking series, Patricia Heaton Parties, scoring a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Culinary Program.
The Ohio native has recently been seen on the big screen in the inspirational drama The Unbreakable Boy (2025) and as a nun in the Al Pacino-led exorcism thriller, The Ritual (2025).
Heaton has been married to British actor David Hunt since 1990. They have four sons: Samuel, John, Joseph, and Daniel.
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