ABOUT GEORGIA ENGEL
Actress best known for playing Georgette Franklin Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show . She also portrayed Pat MacDougall, the mother in-law, on Everybody Loves Raymond .
She was in Milos Forman 's Taking Off, and Jacques Deray's The Outside Man before joining the cast of the Mary Tyler Moore show in what was supposed to be a one-time appearance.
After the end of Everybody Loves Raymond, she took to the stage, appearing alongside Barbara Eden in a female-centric revision of The Odd Couple.
Her sister, Robin Ruth, won the Miss Hawaii pageant in 1967.
It was her breakthrough performance that convinced her co-star Ted Knight to stick with The Mary Tyler Moore Show despite his mounting frustration with his role.
