Monica Louise Horan (born January 29, 1963) is an American actress best known for her role as Amy MacDougall-Barone on the television sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond.
[2] She graduated from Archbishop Prendergast Catholic High School for Girls in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania in 1980.
Horan attended Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, graduating with a degree in Theater Performance in 1984.
She then moved to New York City where she performed in off-off Broadway theatre while working as a telephone sales agent for Telecharge.
Horan met her future husband, Philip Rosenthal, who served as executive producer of Everybody Loves Raymond, while attending Hofstra, and she converted to Judaism before their marriage in 1990.