Laughing Through the Years: The Legacy of Everybody Loves Raymond Where Are They Now? The Cast of Everybody Loves Raymond

Where Is the Everybody Loves Raymond Cast Now? See the Stars 20 Years After the Show Ended (Including Who Did a Full Rewatch!)

 

It’s been two decades since fans were first introduced to Ray Barone (Ray Romano) and his dysfunctional family.

The hit CBS live-studio sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond premiered on Sept. 13, 1996. It starred the comedian as an Italian sports columnist living in Long Island with his wife (Patricia Heaton) and their three kids, with his nosy parents just across the street.

After winning 15 Emmy Awards — including two for Outstanding Comedy Series and several for acting — the show aired its final episode 20 years ago on May 16, 2005.

Although fans have missed the Barones’ weekly antics, Everybody Loves Raymond lives on with all 210 episodes available to stream on Peacock and Paramount+ — a binge undertaken by Romano in April 2024, who watched and rated all the episodes for the first time since the series finale in 2005.

“I got on a little kick there. I hadn’t seen the episodes,” the actor told PEOPLE. “They took on a new look to me. I was appreciating them more. I was very hard on them back then … But you see when you’re removed from it a little, I felt like an audience member. And then I said, ‘Let me rate them.’ I rated them, and I was hard on some.”

Whether you’re a newbie to the series or a longtime fan, here’s what the Everybody Loves Raymond cast is up to now.

Romano — in the role of sportswriter Raymond Barone — kept the laughs coming through interactions with his overbearing parents and put-upon wife, Debra (Heaton). The role earned him one Emmy and a handful of nominations, however, he’s admitted that not every episode was award-worthy.

“When you do 210 episodes, you’re going to have episodes that you think are brilliant and you’re going to have episodes that you think, ‘Wow, you know what? We kind of missed it on that one,’ ” Romano told PEOPLE of his Everybody Loves Raymond rewatch.

He continued, “Then you’re going to have episodes that are very good, great, and somewhere in the middle, you know what I mean? That’s just to be expected when you’re cranking an episode out every week.”

Following Romano’s run on the hit show, the Queens-born actor remained a fixture on TV, appearing on Men of a Certain Age, Parenthood, VinylGet ShortyMade for Love and Bupkis. He also starred alongside Lisa Kudrow, Linda Cardellini, Luke Wilson and more on the 2025 Netflix comedy series No Good Deed.

Romano voiced Manny in the Ice Age film series and appeared in The Big Sick and Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman. Before his appearance in Greg Berlanti’s 2024 film Fly Me to the Moon, he wrote, directed and starred in 2022’s Somewhere in Queens, opposite Laurie Metcalf.

Patricia Heaton

He shares four children — Alexandra, Matthew, Gregory and Joseph — with wife Anna Romano.

Heaton played Debra on the sitcom, a hard-working mom who just couldn’t see eye to eye with her in-laws, though she had a soft spot for her brother-in-law, Robert (Brad Garrett). She won back-to-back Emmys for her performance in 2000 and 2001.

After Raymond‘s end, Heaton joined actor Kelsey Grammer on Fox’s Back to You before finding a new home on the small screen as an overworked mom on ABC’s The Middle, then as a mom pursuing medical school on CBS’ Carol’s Second Act, which inspired the title of her 2020 book, Your Second Act: Inspiring Stories of Reinvention.

Since 1990, Heaton has been married to British actor David Hunt, with whom she has four sons.

As Raymond’s slightly less beloved big brother Robbie, a New York City cop, Garrett earned lots of laughs with his “woe is me” attitude and comebacks to his mom and dad, with whom he lived for much of the series.

Like his costars, Garrett scored several Emmy nominations and took home three trophies — as well as a green dial telephone he snagged from the set.

“I wanted to steal [the phone], and they were like, ‘What are you doing?’ And I’m like, ‘Nothing.’ It was really lame,” he told PEOPLE in June 2023. “They said, ‘Would you like that phone?’ And Rhonda, who was the head of props, gave it to me, and so I treasure it.”

Following Raymond, he appeared on ‘Til Death and other series, including Single ParentsHigh Desert and Not Dead Yet. He’s done a fair amount of voice work for Disney, too, though he’s also known for his stand-up.

After finalizing his divorce from his first wife, Jill Diven — with whom he shares two kids, Maxwell and Hope — Garrett wed actress IsaBeall Quella in November 2021

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