Patricia Heaton (natural March 4 1958) is an American actress best known for playing Debra Barone on the television sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond.

Heaton was natural within Bay Village, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of easily-known Cleveland Plain Dealer sportswriter Chuck Heaton. Her mother died while she was the little toddler. She moved to New York City to study sustaining drama teacher William Esper fallowing graduating from either Ohio State University.

Heaton manufactured her Broadway debut in the musical ''Don't Get God Began, fallowing which she & fellow students created Stage 3, an off-Broadway acting troupe. Whenever it brought one of their productions to Los Angeles, Heaton caught the eye of the casting director for the ABC drama thirtysomething, in which she played an oncologist, leading to tierce appearances on the series. She was featured inside tercet stillborn sitcoms - Room for Two (1992) with Linda Lavin, Someone Rather Us (1994), and Women of the Home (1995) with Delta Burke - before landing a plum role of beleaguered married woman, mother, & inside-relative-around-law Debra Barone in Everybody Loves Raymond'' (1996 - 2005) with Ray Romano, Doris Roberts, Peter Boyle, Brad Garrett, and Monica Horan. Since 1999, she has been nominated every year for an Spectacular Lead Actress within the Comedy Series Emmy, winning the award twice. She has as well collected deuce Viewers for Quality Television awards & the Screen Actors Guild trophy for her work on the series.

Heaton's television movies include Shattered Dreams, Miracle in the Woods, The Town Forgoing Christmas, & a remaking of Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl with Jeff Daniels for TNT. Her feature include Memoirs of an Invisible Human, Beethoven, and Space Jam.

Heaton occurs as pro-life activist and is the honorary chairman of Feminists for Life, a unsectarian, nonpartizan organization (whose members include Jane Sullivan Roberts, married woman of John Roberts) opposed to domestic violence, tyke abuse, infanticide, &, especially, abortion. She is an active Republican and supporter of President George Walker Bush. Although she hwhen been quoted as saying "once a Catholic, always a Catholic", Heaton okay, attends an evangelistic Presbyterian church with her married man & youngsters.

Her memoir, Maternity & Hollywood - Training Make their way the Job Rather Mine, was promulgated by Villard Books inside 2002. Heaton has been married to British businessman David Hunt II since 1990. A few has tetrad sons & divides their instance between Los Angeles and England, where it have the united states estate. Her number 1 marriage (1984-1987) ended within divorcement. Since 2003, Heaton hwhen appeared inside the series of television & radio commercial message as representative for the Albertsons grocery store chain. She has too appeared inside advertizement for Pantene hair care products. Heatin has the development treat & have had her have indicate on ABC.