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  • Category Motion Pictures

    Address 7080 Hollywood Blvd.

    Ceremony date 07/20/1995

About
Rita Moreno
Born:
1931-12-11,
Humacao,
Puerto Rico,
USA
Education:
NA
Ethnicity:
Hispanic
Death Date:
-0001-11-30
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Rita Moreno

Rita Moreno is a Puerto Rican singer, dancer and actress. She is the first and only Hispanic and one of the few performers who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony and at the time the second Puerto Rican to win an Academy Award.

Moreno was born Rosa Dolores Alverío in Humacao, Puerto Rico, to Rosa María, a seamstress, and Paco Alverío, a farmer. She moved with her mother to New York City at the age of five, and took the surname of her stepfather, Edward Moreno.

She began her first dancing lessons soon after arriving in the United States from a friend of her mother, a Spanish dancer called Paco Cansino who was the uncle of Rita Hayworth.

When she was eleven years old, she lent her voice to Spanish-language versions of American films.

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