Raymond Albert Romano (born in Queens, New York, on December 21, 1957) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. He began his career as a stand-up comedian, developing a style based on observations about family and married life. This material served as the basis for the highly successful sitcom *Everybody Loves Raymond*, which he co-created and starred in from 1996 to 2005. For his performance as Ray Barone, he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 2002; the series itself received numerous accolades, including two Emmys for Outstanding Comedy Series. Concurrently, he voiced the mammoth Manny in the *Ice Age* animated film franchise. His subsequent career has explored more dramatic roles with the series *Men of a Certain Age* and in films such as *The Big Sick* and Martin Scorsese's *The Irishman*, for which he shared a Screen Actors Guild Award with the cast. In 2022, he made his directorial debut with the film *Somewhere in Queens*.