Sonia Manzano
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Sonia Manzano (born June 12, 1950) is an American actress, screenwriter, speaker, and singer-songwriter.
She is best known for her appearances on Sesame Street from 1971 to her retirement in 2015.
She is also known for providing the voice-over narration in several animated segments in the English version of Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter.
Early life and education
Manzano was born and raised in the South Bronx in New York City. Her parents are from Puerto Rico. Manzano began her acting career at the High School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles. On a grant, she attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Career
She travelled to New York in her junior year to appear in the original production of the off-Broadway show Godspell. Manzano appeared on Sesame Street in 1971, where she later began writing scripts for the series. Manzano will be retiring from the show after 44 years, according to the publication on June 29, 2015. Manzano did, however, reprise the role of Maria in the 2019 television special Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration.
In the critically acclaimed theatre work The Vain Monologues and The Exonerated, she has appeared on stage in New York. She has contributed to the Peabody Award-winning children's book "Talking Outloud" and written a parenting column for the Sesame Workshop web site. Manzano has appeared in numerous films and television shows, including Death Wish, Law & Order, Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird, and The Muppets Take Manhattan.
Manzano is the author of a book, three children's books, and a memoir. "No Dogs Allowed," her children's book that was published by Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing in 2004, is one of five books from the General Mills' initiative "Spoonfuls of Stories" to encourage children to read and to help children in the United States have access to books. The book has been turned into a stage play. Evelyn Serrano (2014) is also the author of The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano. Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx, her book, was published in 2015.
She has served on the board of the March of Dimes; the George Foster Peabody Awards' board; and the board of a New York City theatrical company, Symphony Space. She is a member of the Project Sunshine Book Club's board of advisors. She was featured in the Learning Leaders (volunteers supporting students) poster, which was designed to encourage reading in NYC public schools.
Manzano appears in several episodes of the animated Nickelodeon series The Loud House, including Bobby and Ronnie Anne Santiago's grandmother Rosa Casagrande, a role she reprises in the spinoff The Casagrande. Judge Gloria Pepitone appears in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, as she also portrays Judge Gloria Pepitone. In several animated segments in the English translation of Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter, she also provided the voice-over narration in several animated segments.
Manzano would return to PBS to produce Alma's Way, a new animated children's television series, according to Deadline on December 3, 2020. Alma's Way, a PBS-owned women, is both the creator and an executive producer, writer, and voice actor.