Ray romano biography loves raymond cast

Ray Romano as Raymond Barone

Romano — in the role of sportswriter Raymond Barone — kept the laughs coming through interactions with his overbearing parents and put-upon wife, Debra (Heaton).

Ray romano biography loves raymond cast

The role earned him one Emmy and a handful of nominations, however, he's admitted that not every episode was award-worthy.

"When you do 210 episodes, you're going to have episodes that you think are brilliant and you're going to have episodes that you think, 'Wow, you know what?

We kind of missed it on that one," Romano told PEOPLE of his Everybody Loves Raymond rewatch. "Then you're going to have episodes that are very good, great, and somewhere in the middle, you know what I mean?

That's just to be expected when you're cranking an episode out every week."

Following Romano's run on the hit show, the Queens-born actor remained a fixture on TV, appearing on Men of a Certain Age,