Patricia Helen Heaton (born March 4, 1958) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress best known for playing lead character and Ray Barone's wife Debra Barone on the CBS television sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond. She recently made a return to television opposite Kelsey Grammer in the FOX comedy series Back To You.

Early life

Heaton was the second youngest of five children born to an Irish American Roman Catholic family in Bay Village, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. Her father, Chuck Heaton, was a well-known Cleveland Plain Dealer sportswriter. She spent her grade school years attending St. Raphael Elementary School in Bay Village. She was 12 when her mother died.Not Everybody Loves Patricia, The New York Times, December 31, 2006