Golden Globe Award as the Best Supporting Actress "West Side Story" (1961) They have one daughter, Fernanda Luisa (Gordon) Fisher, and 2 grandsons.Īwarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004Among Moreno's awards and recognitions are the following:Īcademy Award as the Best Supporting Actress "West Side Story" (1961) On June 18, 1965, Moreno married Leonard Gordon, who remains her husband and manager. She was a regular on the short-lived TV series Cane, which starred Jimmy Smits and Hector Elizondo. She was seen on Law and Order: Criminal Intent as the dying mother of Detective Goren. In 2006, she portrayed Amanda Wingfield in Berkeley Repertory Theatre's revival of The Glass Menagerie. Moreno continues to be active on stage and screen. She made a guest appearance on The Nanny as Coach Stone, Maggie's (Nicholle Tom) tyrannical gym teacher, whom Fran Fine (Fran Drescher) also remembered from her school as Ms. In the late 1990s, she gained exposure to a new generation of viewers when she played Sister Pete, a nun trained as a psychologist in the popular HBO series, Oz. During the mid 1990s, Moreno provided the voice of Carmen Sandiego on the animated Fox show Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? In 1993 she was invited to perform at President Bill Clinton's inauguration and later that month was asked to perform at the White House. Moreno's Broadway credits include The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Gantry, The Ritz, for which she won the 1975 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress, and the female version of The Odd Couple. She was also a regular on the short-lived sitcom version of Nine to Five (based on the film hit) during the early 1980s. Moreno appeared in the family variety series The Muppet Show, and she made other guest appearances on television series such as The Rockford Files, The Love Boat, The Cosby Show, George Lopez, The Golden Girls, and Miami Vice. In fact, it was Moreno who screamed the show's opening line, "HEY, YOU GUYS!" She also had roles as the naughty little girl Pandora, and as "Otto", the very short-tempered director. In 1985, she won the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago.īesides appearing in Singin' in the Rain, The King and I, Summer and Smoke (1961), West Side Story, The Night of the Following Day (1968) and Carnal Knowledge in (1971), Moreno appeared on the PBS children's series The Electric Company in the 1970s, most notably as Millie the Helper. Moreno went on to be the first actress (and the first Hispanic) to win an Emmy (1977), a Grammy(1972), an Oscar (1962) and a Tony (1975). Moreno won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for that role. In 1961, Moreno landed the role of Anita in Robert Wise's film adaptation of Leonard Bernstein's and Stephen Sondheim's groundbreaking Broadway musical, West Side Story, which was played by Chita Rivera on Broadway. She played a small role in the 1952 movie Singin' in the Rain as Zelda Zanners, a fictional silent screen vamp, and had a supporting role in the 1956 musical The King and I as Tuptim, but disliked most of her other work during this period. She had her first Broadway role-as "Angelina" in Skydrift -by the time she was 13, which caught the attention of Hollywood talent scouts. When she was eleven years old, she lent her voice to Spanish-language versions of American films. She moved with her mother to New York City at the age of five, and took the surname of her stepfather, Edward Moreno. Moreno was born Rosita Dolores Alverío in Humacao, Puerto Rico, to Rosa María, a seamstress, and Paco Alverío, a farmer. She is the first and only Hispanic female and one of ten performers who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony and at the time the second Puerto Rican to win an Academy Award Rita Moreno (born December 11, 1931) is a Puerto Rican singer, dancer and actress.
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