Sonia Manzano

ActorProducerWriter Jun 12 (age 75) New York City, New York, USA 1969–2025 (56 year career)

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Biography

Sonia Manzano is an actress and writer, known for Sesame Street (1969), Follow That Bird (1985) and Firepower (1979). She has been married to Richard Reagan since 1986. They have one child.

Known For

Film

Death Wish

Grocery Clerk (uncredited)

Film

Godmothered

Opal

Film

Sesame Street

Maria Figueroa Rodriguez

Film

The Muppets Take Manhattan

Customer at Sardi's

Film

The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland

Maria

Film

Follow That Bird

Maria

Film

I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story

Self

Film

The Casagrandes Movie

Rosa (voice)

Filmography

Acting (50)

Movies (46)

STREET SMART: Lessons from a TV Icon

2025

as Self

The Casagrandes Movie

2024

as Rosa (voice)

7.2

Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On

2022

as Self

8.0

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

2021

as Self

7.5

Sesame Street: 50 Years of Sunny Days

as Self

Godmothered

as Opal

Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration

2019

as Maria

9.3

I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story

2015

as Self

7.4

Sesame Street: Play All Day with Elmo!

2015

as Maria

Sesame Street: Elmo's Super Numbers

2014

Sesame Street: Wild Words and Outdoor Adventures

2011

Sesame Street: C Is for Cookie Monster

2010

Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days

2010

as Maria (uncredited) (archive footage)

The Guitar

2008

as Lady (uncredited)

5.5

A Sesame Street Christmas Carol

2006

as Maria (archive footage)

6.8

Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?

2004

as Maria

Sesame Street: Kid's Guide to Life: Big Bird Gets Lost

2003

as Maria

6.0

Sesame Street: Elmo Visits the Firehouse

2002

as Maria

10.0

The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland

1999

as Maria

6.4

The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland: Sing and Play

1999

as Maria (archive footage)

Sesame Street: The Alphabet Jungle Game

1998

as Maria Rodriguez (voiceover)

6.0

Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!

1998

as Maria

5.8

Sesame Street: Fiesta!

1997

as Maria Rodriguez

5.7

Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas

1996

as Maria

5.9

Baby Balloon

1995

as Narrator (voice)

Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!

1994

as Maria

7.0

Sesame Street: The Best of Elmo

1994

as Maria Rodriguez

7.5

Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration

1993

as Maria

6.0

Barney's Campfire Sing-Along

1990

as Tina's mom

6.0

Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!

1990

as Maria

6.0

Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie

1988

as Maria

6.0

Sesame Street: Sing Along

1987

as Maria

6.0

Sesame Street: Sleepytime Songs & Stories

1986

as Maria Rodriguez

Follow That Bird

1985

as Maria

6.4

The Muppets Take Manhattan

1984

as Customer at Sardi's

6.6

Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

1983

as Maria

6.5

Night-Flowers

1979

as Galicia

A Walking Tour of Sesame Street

1979

as Maria (archive footage) (uncredited)

Christmas Eve on Sesame Street

1978

as Maria

7.3

A Special Sesame Street Christmas

1978

as Maria

6.0

Sesame Street at Night?

1977

as Maria (archive footage)

Sesamstraße - Wissen Sie wo Ernie wohnt?

1975

Death Wish

1974

as Grocery Clerk (uncredited)

6.9

Sesame Street 1986 Wrap Party

as Herself

9.0

Sesame Street: Big Bird's Favorite Party Games

as Maria

Getting Ready to Read

as Maria

Television (4)

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Gloria Pepitone

Law & Order

as Barbara Benitez

Barney and the Backyard Gang

1988

as Tina's mom

Sesame Street

1969

as Maria Figueroa Rodriguez

7.1

Crew (4)

Movies (2)

Plaza Sésamo: Bienvenida la primavera

2006

Writer

Sesame Street Home Video Visits the Hospital

1990

Writer

Television (2)

Alma's Way

Executive Producer

Sesame Street

Writer