Manzano didn't just perform on Sesame Street. She also wrote for the show that teaches numbers, colours and the alphabet using a cast of Jim Henson's Muppets. ![]() so that these kids could find someone on TV that they could relate to." "The stoop in Harlem was the most familiar to ," Manzano explains. "And of course, populating the stoop were people of colour and Latin people and Jewish people. In a video shared Tuesday by the American Library Association, Manzano said Sesame Street's early target audience was children in America's inner cities, and having a multicultural cast was part of that goal. She was cast in the role of Maria shortly after graduating from Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University. ![]() (Sesame Street/Facebook)Raised in a poor Puerto Rican family in New York's tough Bronx neighbourhood, Manzano attended the High School of Performing Arts, which was the setting of the 1980 film Fame. Long-running Sesame Street characters Maria and Luis Rodriquez (as played by Sonia Manzano and Emilio Delgado) pose for their wedding portrait in this undated photo posted on Sesame Street's Facebook page.
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