'Everybody Loves Raymond' star Ray Romano turns 65 surrounded by a loving wife and four children
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Today is Raymond Albert Romano’s day, who is more famously known as Ray Romano. Though it's not known yet what he is going to do on his birthday as he turns 65, his family will surely leave no stone unturned to make him feel special. The ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ star is a family man with a loving wife of over three decades and four children — two twin boys, and a boy and a girl.
As per reports, the Emmy award winner has also recently celebrated his marriage anniversary with his wife Anna. The couple reportedly met when Romano was 29 and still staying with his parents. At the time, he was working as a teller at a bank. Anna was also a teller at the same bank. According to a PEOPLE article, which cited Anna, Ray “quickly became the unofficial staff satirist, dashing off poems sending up ‘everyone and everything’”. His wife added, “He kept the job funny and fun,” per AmoMama.
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Romano had once reportedly said that Anna was not bothered about his financial status when they met. However, after he became famous and popular, he joked, “Whenever she complains about me using her as material, I tell her to go cry in a bag of money.”
The screenwriter reportedly had no plans to enter showbusiness but after his marriage to Anna in 1987, things changed for good. He began performing as a professional. PEOPLE reported that “as the gigs multiplied (Romano appeared on The Tonight Show and HBO), his family kept pace.”
In 1990, Romano and Anna became parents to their daughter, Alexandra. Then in 1993, they welcomed twins — Matt and Gregory. Recalling that time, the actor had reportedly said, “Anna called me after a sonogram and said, ‘Well, we’re having twins.’ I was like, ‘Come on!’ She said, ‘Yes. Twin girls.’ I tried to sound happy, going, ‘Oh. Good. Good.’ Finally she told me, ‘They’re boys, you jerk!’ That’s when I knew I loved her.”
Their youngest child, Joseph, was born in 1998. Romano reportedly loves to have his family time unlike his character Ray Barone from ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’. However, he had once reportedly shared, “Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.”
Meanwhile, if anyone is interested in watching the hit 1996 sitcom ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’, they can reportedly still enjoy it on Paramount+. Screen Rant stated that the show “is a fun, family-driven comedy focused around lackadaisical sports writer Ray, his overworked wife, Debra, jealousy-driven bachelor brother, Robert, and busybody nosy neighbors who also happen to be Ray’s parents, Frank and Marie Barone.”
It added, “The series has some seriously iconic moments, including the longest period of live-audience laughter in sitcom history during the now-legendary ‘she ate a fly!’ episode, and fan-favorite ‘It wasn’t supposed to go out!’ episode when Ray and Robert cook up a scheme to purposely botch the wedding invitations so the female Barones won’t ask them to participate in any more wedding preparations.”