Rita Moreno Biography
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Cites
Citizen Kane, as her all-time favorite film.

She is one of nine performers who have won the gamut of the official awards of the entertainment industry: the Oscar, the Tony, the Emmy, and the Grammy. The others include
Helen Hayes,
Audrey Hepburn,
Mel Brooks, and
John Gielgud. If special awards were included, then
Liza Minnelli and
Barbra Streisand could be included. Technically,
Whoopi Goldberg might be added to the list if you include her Daytime Emmy Award win.

She made a guest appearance on
I Told You So as an exchange student from India who attends school with Betty. Bud teaches her how to play football.

Appeared in the pilot for the TV series
Empty Nest, which was an episode of
The Golden Girls. The premise was changed in the final version of
Empty Nest, in which she did not appear.

When her star was unveiled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, she fell on top of it, openly and uncontrollably weeping. She later commented, "I had been dreaming of this day since I was six!"

Is a key spokesperson in raising the awareness of osteoporosis and, in 2000, was presented with an award from the National Osteoporosis Foundation for her work.

Measurements: 34-22-34 1/2 (September 1956), 34-23-35 (filming
The Four Seasons), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).

Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by
George W. Bush [June 2004].

In the first season of
The Electric Company, she was in a sketch in which she yelled "Hey, you guys!" repeatedly. It became so popular with the show's producers that they decided to use it as the catchphrase in their opening, starting with season two.

In 1977, she became the ninth performer to win the Triple Crown of Acting: (Oscar: Best Supporting Actress in
West Side Story, Tony, Best Featured Actress, The Ritz (1975) and Emmy 1977 (
The Muppet Show) and 1978 (
The Rockford Files).

Daughter Fernanda Luisa was born in 1967. A successful jewelry designer, she founded Nandiz Design. She is married to Daniel Gordon and has two children named Justin and Cameron.

Won Broadway's 1975 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic) for "The Ritz," a part she recreated in the film version of the same name,
The Ritz.

Filming the scene in
West Side Story where she is harassed and nearly raped by the Jets reduced her to tears, as it brought back memories of being harassed as a child. When she started crying the actors playing the Jets immediately stopped and tried to comfort her, pointing out that the audience was going to hate them for what they were doing.

Of the nine people who won all four major entertainment awards (Oscar, Emmy, Tony and Grammy), Moreno won all four awards in the shortest amount of time within a 16 year time frame. Winning the Oscar in 1962, Grammy in 1972, Tony in 1975 and her first of two Emmys in 1977. Composer
Richard Rodgers is second, winning his four awards within a 17 year time frame.

Husband Dr. Lenny Gordon is a retired internist and cardiologist.

Of the nine performers who won all four major entertainment awards (Oscar, Emmy, Tony and Grammy) she was the very first.

Portrayed Amanda Wingfield from
Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie at the Berkeley Reperatory Theater in Berkeley, California (July 2006)
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