Sonia Manzano is best known for playing Maria on Sesame Street from 1971 to 2015.
19 Facts About Sonia Manzano
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Sonia Manzano received a Lifetime Achievement Daytime Emmy Award in 2016.
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Sonia Manzano's memoir, Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx was published in 2015, and her works include the novel The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano as well as several children's books.
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Sonia Manzano is the creator of the animated children's television series Alma's Way, from Fred Rogers Productions, and serves as an executive producer, writer and voice actor for the show.
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Sonia Manzano attended the High School of Performing Arts, where she began her acting career.
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Sonia Manzano attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on a scholarship.
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Sonia Manzano joined the production of Sesame Street in 1971, where she eventually began writing scripts for the series.
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On June 29,2015, it was announced that Sonia Manzano would be retiring from the show after 44 years.
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Sonia Manzano did later reprise the role of Maria in the 2019 television special Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration.
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Sonia Manzano has performed on the New York stage, in The Vagina Monologues and The Exonerated.
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Sonia Manzano has written for the Peabody Award-winning children's series Little Bill, and has written a parenting column for the Sesame Workshop web site called "Talking Outloud".
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Sonia Manzano is the author of a novel, children's books, and a memoir.
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Sonia Manzano is the author of the novel The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano.
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Sonia Manzano is a member of the board of advisors of the Project Sunshine Book Club.
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Sonia Manzano was featured in the Learning Leaders poster, designed to encourage reading in NYC public schools.
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In several episodes of the animated Nickelodeon series The Loud House, Sonia Manzano provides the voice of Bobby and Ronnie Anne Santiago's grandmother, Rosa Casagrande, a role she reprises in the spinoff The Casagrandes.
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Sonia Manzano provided the voice-over narration in several animated segments in the English version of the Swedish television show Fem myror ar fler an fyra elefanter.
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Sonia Manzano was nominated twice for the Emmy Award as Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series.
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Sonia Manzano has received awards from the Association of Hispanic Arts, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, the Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, the Hispanic Heritage Award for Education in 2003, and the "Groundbreaking Latina Lifetime Achievement" award from the National Association of Latina Leaders in 2005.