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Sonia Manzano

Voice Actress / Stage Actress / Television Actress / Screenwriter / Film Actress | * 06/12/1950 (73) | New York City, New York (United States of America (USA))
Sonia Manzano (born 1950) is an American actress, screenwriter, and author. She is best known for playing Maria on Sesame Street from 1971 to 2015. She received a Lifetime Achievement Daytime Emmy Award in 2016. Her 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. She 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 is an actress and writer, known for Sesame Street (1969), Follow That Bird (1985) and Firepower (1979). She has been married to Richard Reagan since 1986. They have one child.

Most frequent genres for this person: Kids & Family | Comedies | Music

Known for these Movies & Shows

Big Bird is sent to live far from Sesame Street by a pesky social worker. Unhappy, Big Bird runs away from his foster home, prompting the rest of the Sesame Street gang to go on a cross-country journe ...

Sesame Street: Follow That Bird

G

1985 | 3.2/5 | 1h 28min
Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family, Music
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Elmo loves his fuzzy, well-worn blue blanket more than anything in the whole world. Elmo's blanket gets sucked into colorful, swirling tunnel into Grouchland, the yuckiest place on earth. Elmo goes on ...

The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland

G

1999 | 3.1/5 | 1h 13min
Music, Kids & Family, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
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A mercenary is hired by the FBI to track down a powerful recluse criminal, a woman is also trying to track him down for her own personal vendetta. ...

Firepower

R

1979 | 2.6/5 | 1h 44min
Action, Adventure
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On a special inner city street, the inhabitants—human and muppet—teach preschoolers basic educational and social concepts using comedy, cartoons, games, and songs. ...

Sesame Street

TV-Y

1969- | 3.5/5 | 54min per episode
Kids & Family, Comedy
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Awards & Nominations for Sonia Manzano

Américas Award
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Movies with Sonia Manzano as Actress(25)

as Rosa (voice)2024 The Casagrandes Movie
as herself2022 Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
2021 Sesame Street: 50 Years Of Sunny Days
as herself2021 Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
as Opal2020 Godmothered
as Maria2019 Sesame Street: 50th Anniversary Celebration!
2015 I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story
2010 Sesame Street: C Is for Cookie Monster
as Maria2002 Sesame Street: Elmo Visits the Firehouse
as Maria1999 The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
as Maria1998 Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
as Maria Rodriguez (voiceover)1998 Sesame Street: The Alphabet Jungle Game
as Maria1997 Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
as Maria1994 Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
as Maria Rodriguez1994 Sesame Street: The Best of Elmo
as Maria1988 Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie: An All-Star Musical Special
as Maria Rodriguez1986 Sesame Street: Sleepytime Songs & Stories
as Maria1985 Sesame Street: Follow That Bird
as Customer at Sardi's1984 The Muppets Take Manhattan
as Maria1983 Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
as Galicia1979 Night-Flowers
as Maria (archive footage)1979 A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
as Maria1978 Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
as Maria1978 A Special Sesame Street Christmas
as Grocery Clerk (uncredited)1974 Death Wish

TV Shows/Series with Sonia Manzano as Actress(4)

as Gloria Pepitone1999 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Barbara Benitez1990 Law & Order
as Maria Figueroa Rodriguez1969 Sesame Street

TV Shows/Series with Sonia Manzano as Crew(2)

Production/Executive Producer2021 Alma's Way
Writing/Writer1969 Sesame Street

Full Name: Sonia Manzano
Born: Monday, 06/12 1950 (June) in New York City, New York (United States of America (USA)) (current age: 73 years + 318 days)
Zodiac sign: Gemini (Chinese zodiac sign: Tiger)
Educated at: Carnegie Mellon University, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School
Sonia Manzano frequently works together with these people:
Caroll Spinney (16x, Actor)
Frank Oz (15x, Actor)
Roscoe Orman (14x, Actor)
Lou Martini Jr. (13x, Actor)
Jim Henson (12x, Actor)
Jerry Nelson (12x, Actor)
William H. Burns (12x, Actor)
Martin P. Robinson (12x, Actor)
Robert Turano (11x, Actor)
Edward D. Murphy (11x, Actor)
Emilio Delgado (11x, Actor)
Bob McGrath (11x, Actor)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:623591, Added: 10/21/2018, Last updated: 04/22/2024