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Monica Horan Rosenthal ’84
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Monica Horan Rosenthal graduated from Hofstra University in 1984 with a degree in theater performance, then moved to New York City. As a founding member of Actors Initiative, she performed plays by playwright Tom Donaghy.
As a sketch comedy performer with the group Artificial Intelligence, she created the role of Madilyn Monroe in Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding. She also performed both Off- Broadway and then in Los Angeles with Charles Busch in Vampire Lesbians of Sodom.
After a two-month stint performing onstage in B.F.’s, directed by her husband, Everybody Loves Raymond creator and Executive Producer Phil Rosenthal (Hofstra Class of 1981), with her co-writer and best friend, Judy Toll, Monica Horan Rosenthal fired her agent and “quit the business.” A week later, her husband asked her to play the small part of “Robert's date” on Everybody Loves Raymond. The date went well, and after five years of on-again/off-again romance, the characters of Robert and Amy got married, and a year later she became a series regular.
Her other television credits include a recurring role on General Hospital and guest spots on L.A. Law, In Living Color, Down the Shore, In the House and Coach. Monica Horan Rosenthal lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.
