Ray Romano

Ray Romano is an American stand-up comedian and actor who grew up in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Queens, New York City. He came to television through stand-up, which he began performing in 1989 while working as a delivery driver, and a later appearance on a late night talk show led to his own CBS sitcom. That series, Everybody Loves Raymond, ran from 1996 to 2005 and made him one of the best paid television actors of its time; he won a Primetime Emmy Award as lead actor in 2002 and shared two more as an executive producer of the series. Outside that show he voiced the mammoth Manny in the Ice Age animated films, created and starred in the TNT drama Men of a Certain Age, and took screen roles in The Big Sick and Scorsese's The Irishman. His work spans stand-up, television, film and voice acting.