Biography
Ray Romano is American Actor and stand-up comedian who earned three Primetime Emmy Awards—two as a producer and one as an actor for his role on the CBS comedy Everybody Loves Raymond. For this performance, he is most renowned. In the Ice Age films Ice Age: The Meltdown, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Ice Age: Continental Drift, and Ice Age: Collision Course, he is also well-known for lending his voice as Manny. In addition to these honors, he has been nominated for two Grammy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.
Age
He is 66 years old as of 21 December 1957 2023. He was born in Queens, New York, United States. His real name is Raymond Albert Romano.
Family – Education
Romano, the second son of real estate agent and engineer Albert Romano (1925–2010) and piano teacher Luciana “Lucie” (née Fortini) (d. 2021), was born in Queens, New York City. His ancestry is Italian. He was raised in Queens’ Forest Hills area. His younger brother, Robert (born around 1966), is a second grade teacher in New York City, and his older brother, Richard (born 1956), is a sergeant in the NYPD.
Romano went to Our Lady Queen of Martyrs in Forest Hills for his elementary and middle school education. In 1975, Romano received his diploma from Hillcrest High School, having previously attended Archbishop Molloy High School. Fran Drescher and he were in the same high school class. Romano studied accounting for a short time at Queens College in Flushing, New York, prior to entering the entertainment industry.He added that Ray Barone’s television sibling had not won his brother over.
Wife – Children
In 1987, Romano tied the knot with Anna Scarpulla. They shared a bank job when they first got together. They are parents of four kids. Alexandra “Ally” Romano, Romano’s real-life daughter, served as the inspiration for the name of his character’s daughter on Everybody Loves Raymond. Romano believed it was inconvenient to have all of his television children have the same names as his real children, so he changed the twins’ names to Geoffrey and Michael onscreen. In the series pilot, Ray and Debra’s twin boys were called Gregory and Matthew after Romano’s real twin sons.
Net Worth
He has an estiated net worth of $200 million.
Get Shorty
He appeared as Rick Moreweather, a film producer in the American comedy-drama television series Get Shorty. Get Shorty tracks Miles Daly, a bodyguard for a deadly Nevada criminal organization. He tries to get into production as a movie producer, using a Hollywood film as a means of money laundering, all for the benefit of his daughter. However, he unintentionally brings the criminal underworld with him to Los Angeles rather than escaping it. Daly eventually finds himself working with Rick Moreweather, a disgraced producer of shoddy movies who takes on the role of Miles’s partner and navigator through the Hollywood maze.
Vinyl
He appeared as Zak Yankovich, head of promotions for American Century in the American period drama television series Vinyl. When it comes to music, punk, disco, and hip-hop are replacing rock ‘n’ roll in 1970s New York, which is nonetheless rife with drug use and adultery. Richie Finestra, president and founder of American Century Records, is desperately attempting to make his way through the shifting environment, but his enthusiasm for finding new music and artists has faded. A momentous occurrence rekindles Finestra’s professional fire just as his American Century Records are about to be sold, but it might also destroy his personal life.
Made for Love
He appeared as Herbert Green in the American science fiction black comedy-drama television series Made for Love. A woman finds out her husband had fitted her with a tracking device after she flees their oppressive 10-year marriage to a tech magnate. He put a gadget in her head that enables him to see her in real time, track her whereabouts, and access her “emotional data” while she attempts to reclaim her freedom.
Movies
♦ 2024 – Fly Me to the Moon
♦ 2022 – Somewhere in Queens
♦ 2019 – Paddleton
♦ 2019 – Bad Education
♦ 2019 – The Irishman
♦ 2017 – The Big Sick
♦ 2016 – Ice Age: Collision Course
♦ 2014 – Rob the Mob
♦ 2012 – Ice Age: Continental Drift
♦ 2010 – Exporting Raymond
♦ 2009 – Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
♦ 2009 – Funny People
♦ 2008 – The Last Word
♦ 2008 – The Grand
♦ 2006 – Ice Age: The Meltdown
♦ 2006 – Grilled
♦ 2004 – Welcome to Mooseport
♦ 2004 – Eulogy
TV Shows
♦ 2024 – Celebrity IOU
♦ 2023 – Bupkis
♦ 2023 – Bookie
♦ 2021–2022 – Made for Love
♦ 2021 – Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
♦ 2020 – One Day at a Time
♦ 2019 – Crashing
♦ 2017–2019 – Get Shorty
♦ 2016 – Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade
♦ 2016 – Vinyl
♦ 2016 – Kevin Can Wait
♦ 2015 – David Letterman: A Life on Television
♦ 2014 – Maron
♦ 2012–2015 – Parenthood
♦ 2011 – The Office
♦ 2011 – The Middle