HEATON PATRICIA

“Most real comedy comes from pain.”

Patricia Heaton has relived moments from her own life as a mother playing a TV mom on the hugely popular sitcoms and . Now the Emmy and SAG Award winner is imitating aspects of her life again in the CBS comedy . Dressed in scrubs, she’s an empty nester pursuing her dream of becoming a doctor. “My own four sons are pretty much out of the house,” she says, “and I was wondering what might come next. So it’s been interesting to have this experience with Carol, who’s working with interns who are half her age.”