Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There have been many cast changes on Sesame Street over the decades, but kids could always count on at least one beloved character ...

Long before “Sesame Street” premiered, Sonia Manzano lived there — minus the Muppets. Manzano spent 44 years on the beloved children’s show as Maria, joining two years after its 1969 debut that showed ...

Sesame Street is losing one of its most celebrated residents, Maria Figueroa. After 44 years, Sesame Street's beloved Maria is moving on to greener climates as Sonia Manzano is retiring. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s no exaggeration to say that Sonia Manzano has been a source of inspiration to millions of children. The actress began playing ...

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Sonia Manzano, better known as Maria from Sesame Street, about her new animated children's television show,... After four decades on 'Sesame Street," Sonia Manzano ...

No one ever was going to mistake her for June Cleaver (or Barbara Billingsley, for that mater, um, matter). Sonia Manzano — aka Maria, friend, girlfriend, wife and unshakably empathic TV mom to the ...

Some of my first words happened because Sonia Manzano was talking to me through the TV. “Uno, dos, tres,” she would cheerfully sing, instructing the children onscreen to follow her lead. “Cuatro, ...

NEW YORK -- "Sesame Street" is about to be less A-OK. Sonia Manzano, who has played the role of Maria on the groundbreaking kid show since 1971, is retiring. Manzano, 65, broke the news earlier this ...

Emilio Delgado, best known to generations of “Sesame Street” viewers as the patient and kind Luis, died last week at 81. Who better to memorialize him than the actress who worked alongside him for ...