Create a free account to access exclusive content, play games, solve puzzles, test your pop-culture knowledge and receive special offers.is the first Latina to achieve EGOT status after earning trophies at the Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards, Oscars and Tony Awards throughout her career., which earned her the Oscar and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. Prior to playing Anita, Moreno often portrayed stereotypical Latina roles.
“I was playing a Latina, or a native girl or any one of those racial stereotypes. These girls usually were morally questionable, they were sexually easy, they were uneducated . . . it was always those kind of roles,” Moreno said in an October 2021 interview with“Anita was the only Latina I ever played, at that point, who actually had an identity that was understandable,” Moreno said at the time. “There were really no other Hollywood role models who were Latina that I could look up to.
“I knew I wasn’t ready,” Moreno revealed at the time. “Howard said, ‘You know, I think she hasn’t danced in a while.’ But he said, ‘I think she can do it. I think we can beat it out of her.” He said, ‘But you know what’s so amazing? She learns so fast.’ Well, that was cheating, but uh, hey, I got the Oscar.”The Puerto Rican actress earned the Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing or Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in Variety or Music in 1977 for her appearance on.
premiered in January 2021. The documentary featured Moreno and depicted her journey from childhood to stardom., but not as Anita. The alum portrayed Valentina and appeared at the film’s premiere in New York City in November 2021.
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