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Rita Moreno is one of a select group of performers to have won all four of the most prestigious show business awards, The Oscar, The Emmy, The Tony and The Grammy. The Oscar was for her performance as Anita in the 1962 motion picture, West Side Story. The two Emmys were for a 1977 variety appearance on The Muppet Show and in 1978 for a dramatic guest appearance on The Rockford Files. The Tony was for her 1973 triumph on Broadway as Googie Gomez in The Ritz. The Grammy was for her 1972 performance on The Electric Company Album for children which was based on the long-running television show of the same name.
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Rita Moreno was born Rosa Dolores Alverio in Humacao, a small town near the famous rain forest of Puerto Rico. At five, she and her mother moved to New York and the following year she started dancing lessons. At 13, she had her Broadway debut in Skydrift. Then, in the true tradition of Hollywood, a talent scout arranged a meeting for the 17-year-old Miss Moreno with Louis B. Mayer and she was signed with MGM.
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American actress Rita Moreno has managed to have a thriving career for the better part of six decades despite the institutional racism that has plagued the entertainment industry, particularly the anti-Hispanic bias that stereotyped Hispanic women as "spitfires" and sexpots. Moreno, one of the very few (and very first) performers to win an Oscar, an Emmy, a Tony, and a Grammy, was born born Rosita Dolores AlverÃo in in Humacao, Puerto Rico on December 11, 1931. She moved to New York City in 1937 along with her mother, where she began a professional career before she was a teenager. The 11-year-old Rosita got her first movie experience dubbing Spanish-language versions of American films. Less than a month before her 14th birthday on November 11, 1945, she made her Broadway debut in the play "Skydrift" at the Belasco Theatre, co-starring with Arthur Keegan and the young Eli Wallach. Although she would not appear again on Broadway for almost 20 years, Rita Moreno, as she was billed in the play, had arrived professionally.
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Rosa Dolores Alverio, better known as Rita Moreno, entered into the Guiness Book of World Records as the only female to win the Oscar, the Emmy, the Tony and the Grammy. She won the Oscar in 1962, for Best Supporting Actress as Anita in "West Side Story." She earned two Emmys, first in 1977, for an episode of "The Muppets," then in 1978 for her role on the "Rockford Files." Rita earned the Tony Award for her 1975 Broadway performance of Googie Gomez in "The Ritz." And she won the Grammy Award in 1972, for the album, "The Electric Company." Rita has ... received The Golden Globe Award, the Joseph Jefferson Award, the Nosotros Golden Eagle Award, the Sarah Siddons Award for her portrayal of Olive Madison, in the female version of "The Odd Couple,"and in 1995, Rita received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Rita Moreno has appeared on stage, television and in concert and film for more than 40 years. She is the only female to have won all four of the most prestigious show business awards - the Oscar, Emmy, Tony and Grammy - an achievement that is noted in the Guinness Book of World Records. She has ... received dozens of other show business awards, most notably the Golden Globe and Chicago's own Golden Apple, Joseph Jefferson and Sarah Siddons Award. In 1995, Moreno received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She made some thirty films early in her career, and was often typecast as a Mexican spitfire or an Indian maiden. It was only after she won an Academy Award for her performance in "West Side Story," which gained her international acclaim, that she was finally recognized as a major talent.
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During the mid 1990s, Moreno provided the voice of Carmen Sandiego on the hit animated FOX show Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? In the late 1990s, she gained exposure to a new generation of viewers, as she played Sister Peter Marie Reimondo, a nun trained as a psychologist in the popular HBO series, Oz. Moreno has participated in more than fifty productions, combining her television, movie and theatrical works. She made a guest appearance on The Nanny as Coach Stone, Maggie's tyrannical gym teacher, whom Fran Fine ... remembered from her school as Ms. Wickavich.
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