Bustamante said the doc was born after he read Manzano’s memoir, Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx. A TV ...

Season two of Alma’s Way starts on PBS Kids September 18, and the season premiere has a special guest in the voice cast. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor plays herself. The show is about six-year ...

Sonia Manzano is best known for her long-running role on Sesame Street. She joined the cast of the iconic PBS children’s series in 1971, playing Puerto Rican teen Maria Rodriguez. The character ...

Sonia Manzano is transporting these middle schoolers back in time to her childhood. "Is Ma right? Am I always daydreaming?" she said. She is reading from her memoir "Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in ...

But when being herself meant using Spanglish words, she learned that not everyone understood what she was saying Sonia Manzano is recalling how producers and cast members on Sesame Street told her ...

Sonia Manzano has spent the past 44 years of her career on Sesame Street as Maria, but that is all coming to an end. During a recent appearance at the American Library Association’s annual conference, ...

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In a new documentary, Manzano recalls how producers told her before filming, "Sonia, be yourself. We just want you to be yourself" Sonia Manzano remembers laboring over how best to play the role Maria ...

It's the end of an era for "Sesame Street": Sonia Manzano--Maria for more than four decades--is retiring from the beloved children's program. News of Manzano's departure arrived in the form of a tweet ...