![]() In 2004, she was added to the Bronx Walk of Fame. In 1979, the Supersisters trading card set was produced and distributed one of the cards featured Manzano's name and picture. As a writer for Sesame Street, Manzano won 15 Emmy Awards. Manzano was nominated twice for the Emmy Award as Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series. In Alma's Way, which was launched by PBS in October 2021, she is the creator, as well as an executive producer, writer, and voice actor. On December 3, 2020, Deadline reported that Manzano would return to PBS to create a new animated children's television series titled Alma's Way. She also provided the voice-over narration in several animated segments in the English version of the Swedish television show Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter. She also portrays Judge Gloria Pepitone in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. In several episodes of the animated Nickelodeon series The Loud House, Manzano provides the voice of Bobby and Ronnie Anne Santiago's grandmother, Rosa Casagrande, a role she reprises in the spinoff The Casagrandes. She was featured in the Learning Leaders (volunteers helping students succeed) poster, designed to encourage reading in NYC public schools. She is a member of the board of advisors of the Project Sunshine Book Club. She has served on the March of Dimes Board the board of the George Foster Peabody Awards and the board of a New York City theatrical institution, Symphony Space. In 2022, her novel for children Coming Up Cuban was published, as part of a contract with Scholastic to publish two novels and two picture books for children. In 2015, her memoir, Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx, was published. ![]() She is also the author of the novel The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano (2014). The book has been adapted as a stage play. Her children's book No Dogs Allowed was published by Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing in 2004. Manzano is the author of a novel, children's books, and a memoir. She has also appeared in multiple films and television programs, including Death Wish, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Godmothered, Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird, and The Muppets Take Manhattan. She has written for the Peabody Award-winning children's series Little Bill, and has written a parenting column for the Sesame Workshop web site called "Talking Outloud". She has performed on the New York stage, in The Vagina Monologues and The Exonerated. Manzano did, however, later reprise the role of Maria in the 2019 television special Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration. On June 29, 2015, it was announced that Manzano would be retiring from the show after 44 years. Manzano joined the production of Sesame Street in 1971, where she eventually began writing scripts for the series. ![]() In her junior year, she came to New York to star in the original production of the off-Broadway show Godspell. She attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on a scholarship. Manzano attended the High School of Performing Arts, where she began her acting career. Manzano was born and raised in the South Bronx in New York City. 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. ![]() 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 received a Lifetime Achievement Daytime Emmy Award in 2016. She is best known for playing Maria on Sesame Street from 1971 to 2015. Sonia Manzano (born 1950) is an American actress, screenwriter, author, singer and songwriter. 15 Emmy Awards for writing, 2016 Lifetime Achievement Daytime Emmy Award
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