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AKA: Rosita Moreno, Rosa Delores Alverio, Rosita the Cheetah
Nationality: Puerto Rican
Birthdate: 12/11/1931
Birthplace: Humacao, Puerto Rico

biography

A petite dynamo whose career has encompassed stage and screen, Rita Moreno is one of only eight individuals to have earned each of the major entertainment awards--the Oscar, Grammy, Emmy and Tony--in competition. (Helen Hayes, John Gielgud, Audrey Hepburn, Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Rodgers, Mel Brooks and Mike Nichols are the others.) While this is an impressive feat for anyone, in Moreno's case it is all the more so as early in her career she had to overcome ethnic typecasting. Indeed, she has played a wide array of role of diverse backgrounds and has avoided being typecast as the "Latin Continued

Credits

Cane
(TV Show)
2007-2007
Open and Shut
Amalia Duque
2007
The Perfect Son
Amalia Duque
2007
Hurricane
Amalia Duque
2007
Time Away
Amalia Duque
2007
The Exile
Amalia Duque
2007
All Bets Are Off
Amalia Duque
2007
One Man is an Island
Amalia Duque
2007
A New Legacy
Amalia Duque
2007
Brotherhood
Amalia Duque
2007
Family Business
Amalia Duque
2007
The Two Alex Vegas
Amalia Duque
2007
The Work of a Business Man
Amalia Duque
2007
Pilot
Amalia Duque
2007
+(8 More)
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
(TV Show)
2006-2007
Endgame
Goren's Mother/Frances Goren
2007
Brother's Keeper
Goren's Mother/Frances Goren
2007
The War At Home
Goren's Mother/Frances Goren
2006
Wanted (TNT)
(TV Show)
2005-2005
Click, Click, Boom
Mrs. Kelly
2005
The Handler
(TV Show)
2003-2003
Off the Edge
Actor
2003
Casa de Los Babys
Senora Munoz
2003
The Guardian
(TV Show)
2003-2003
Back in the Ring
Caroline Novack
2003
Oz
(TV Show)
1998-2003
Exeunt Omnes
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2003
Junkyard Dawgs
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2003
A Day in the Death . . .
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2003
4giveness
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2003
A Failure to Communicate
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2003
Sonata da Oz
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2003
See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Smell No Evil
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2003
Dead Man Talking
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2003
Impotence
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2002
Good Intentions
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2002
Variety
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2002
Wheel of Fortune
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2002
Next Stop: Valhalla
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2002
Dream a Little Dream of Me
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2002
Laws of Gravity
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2002
Visitation
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2002
Famous Last Words
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2001
Even the Score
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2001
Orpheus Descending
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2001
Blizzard of '01
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2001
Cuts Like a Knife
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2001
Revenge is Sweet
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2001
Conversions
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2001
Medium Rare
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2001
You Bet Your Life
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2000
A Town Without Pity
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2000
A Word to the Wise
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2000
Gray Matter
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2000
Works of Mercy
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2000
The Bill of Wrongs
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2000
Obituaries
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2000
A Cock and Balls Story
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
2000
Out o' Time
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
1999
Secret Identities
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
1999
Cruel and Unusual Punishments
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
1999
U.S. Male
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
1999
Unnatural Disasters
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
1999
Legs
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
1999
Napoleon's Boney Parts
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
1999
The Truth and Nothing But...
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
1999
Escape From Oz
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
1998
Animal Farm
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
1998
Strange Bedfellows
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
1998
Family Bizness
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
1998
Losing Your Appeal
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
1998
Great Men
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
1998
Ancient Tribes
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
1998
The Tip
Sister Peter Marie Reimondo
1998
+(43 More)
Pinero
Miguel's Mother
2001
Blue Moon
Maggie
2000
The Slums of Beverly Hills
Belle
1998
Angus
Madame Rulenska
1995
The Cosby Show
(TV Show)
1987-1987
You Only Hurt The One You Love
Mrs. Granger
1987
The Ritz
Googie Gomez
1976
West Side Story
Anita
1961
Singin' in the Rain
Zelda Zanders
1952
I Like It Like That
Rosaria Linares
The Yellow Tomahawk
Honey Bear
Samar
Actor
Carnal Knowledge
Louise
Garden of Evil
Singer
Untamed
Julia
Jivaro
Maroa
Seven Cities of Gold
Ula
The Four Seasons
Claudia Zimmer
Age Isn't Everything
Seymour's Mother
The Vagabond King
Huguette
Summer and Smoke
Rosa
The Boss' Son
Esther
The King and I
Tuptim
The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
Sandra
The Night of the Following Day
Vi
Popi
Lupe
Happy Birthday, Gemini
Lucille Pompi
The Deerslayer
Hetty
Carlo's Wake
Angela Torello
Italian Movie
Actor
This Rebel Breed
Lola

milestones

Year
Milestone
1935 
With her mother, moved from Puerto Rico to NYC at age four; father and brother remained in Puerto Rico
1936 
Made nightclub debut at age five (date approximate)
1945 
Broadway debut at age 13 in "Skydrift"
 
Joined MGM's starlet stable at age 17
1950 
Feature acting debut, "So Young, So Bad"
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