Sonia Manzano

Biography

Sonia Manzano is an American actress and writer born in the South Bronx of New York City to Puerto Rican parents. She joined Sesame Street in 1971, where she wrote scripts for the series before retiring in 2015, a milestone marked by her groundbreaking retirement after over four decades on the show. Her memoir Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx was published in 2015, followed by the novel The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano.