Ray Romano

Raymond Albert Romano (born December 21, 1957) is an American stand-up comedian, actor and screenwriter. He is best known for his role on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, for which he received an Emmy Award, and as the voice of Manny in the Ice Age film series. He created and starred in the TNT comedy-drama Men of a Certain Age (2009–11). From 2012 to 2015, Romano had a recurring role as Hank Rizzoli, a love interest of Sarah Braverman in Parenthood, and co-starred in the romantic comedy The Big Sick (2017).\n', ' Romano was born in Queens, New York, the son of Lucie (née Fortini), a piano teacher, and Albert Romano (November 7, 1925 – March 11, 2010), a real estate agent and engineer. He is of Italian descent. He grew up in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Queens. He has an older brother, Richard (born in 1956), a sergeant with the NYPD, and a younger brother, Robert, a second grade teacher in New York City. Romano married his wife, Anna Scarpulla, in 1987. They met while working at a bank together. They have four children.\n', ' Romano\'s character\'s daughter on Everybody Loves Raymond was named after his real-life daughter. Also, in the series pilot, Ray and Debra\'s twin boys were named Gregory and Matthew, after Romano\'s real-life twin sons, but Romano felt it was inconvenient to have all his TV children have the same names as his real children, and changed the twins\' names to Geoffrey and Michael on screen. He also said his brother was not pleased with Ray Barone\'s TV brother.\n', '