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Rita Moreno: Puerto Rico
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Born December 11, 1931 - Energetic dancer, singer, and actress Rita Moreno was born Rosa Dolores Alverio in Puerto Rico to a family of independent farmers. She moved to New York City with her mother at age five and went on to become one of the few people to win an Oscar, a Tony, an Emmy, and a Grammy throughout her long career.
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Rita Moreno is one of the all-time great Puerto Rican entertainers. A skillful actress who ... sings and dances, her versatility has led to decades of success on stage, screen, and television. She has proved that Hispanic performers are not limited to "ethnic" roles, and in the process she became the only female artist ever to win the four major entertainment awards: the Oscar, the Tony, the Grammy, and the Emmy.
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Moreno was born Rosa Dolores Alverio on December 11, 1932, in Humacao, Puerto Rico. Her mother, Rosa Maria Mercano, married Paco Alverio, a small independent farmer, when she was just a teenager, but the marriage ended in divorce. In the 1930s the pressures of the Depression and the side effects of the island's rapid industrialization forced Rosa to look toward the United States for sustenance. She left home to work as a seamstress in New York City, leaving young Moreno in the care of relatives. A year later, five-year-old Moreno joined her mother.
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Rosita Dolores Alverio (born December 11, 1931), better known as Rita Moreno, is a Puerto Rican actress who has achieved fame both in Hollywood and Broadway. She is a native of Humacao.
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Born Rosa Dolores Alverio, Moreno remembers dancing for her grandfather in her native Puerto Rico as records played. Soon after moving to New York with her mother, she began taking dance lessons at age 5. By the time little "Rosita" was 13, she was acting on Broadway.
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Moreno began with the story of how her mom wanted her to have a better life than she had, so she brought Moreno to the U.S. from Puerto Rico. She didn't speak any English, but she got a job and raised Moreno on her own.
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