Patricia Heaton

ABOUT PATRICIA HEATON

Emmy Award-wining actress who played Debra Barone on the television series Everybody Loves Raymond . She began appearing on The Middle in 2009.

She pledged the Delta Gamma sorority while studying drama at Ohio State University .

She made her TV debut in a 1989 episode of the series Alien Nation.

She married actor David Hunt, her second husband, in 1990. The couple had four sons: David, John, Joseph, and Daniel.

She played Ray Romano 's on-screen wife for nine seasons on the hit series Everybody Loves Raymond.