When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

She played the unhinged "Flo Flotsky" on four episodes of Soap and played lonely Aunt Edna on Step by Step. (born 1957) is her only child. She says of her book "It's about sharing things I've learned that have changed my life.

Doris Roberts (née Green; born November 4 1925) is an American character actress of film stage and television. She is perhaps best known for her role as Marie Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond from 1996 to 2005.