Sonia Manzano
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.
Works
Sesame Street
On a special inner city street, the inhabitants—human and muppet—teach preschoolers basic educational and social concepts using comedy, cartoons, games, and songs.
Release Date1969-11-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd Maria Figueroa Rodriguez
Episode Count2749
Vote Count258
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
Release Date1999-09-20
Charactersd Gloria Pepitone
Episode Count9
Vote Count3967
Law & Order
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
Release Date1990-09-13
Charactersd Barbara Benitez
Episode Count1
Vote Count618
Barney and the Backyard Gang
Barney and the Backyard Gang is a direct-to-video series produced by The Lyons Group and was produced from October 13, 1988 to October 20, 1991. This series launched the stardom of the PBS television show Barney & Friends. Music for the Barney and the Backyard Gang videos was created by Stephen Bates Baltes and Phillip Parker. The series was a regional success, but only a moderate success throughout the rest of the country. Then one day, in 1991, Larry Rifkin, then head of Connecticut Public Television, rented a Barney video for his daughter Leora. He liked the concept and talked to Leach about possibly putting Barney on television through the Public Broadcasting Service. Rock with Barney was the last video in the series before the television show debuted. Also, only four of the kids from the videos (Michael, Luci, Tina and Derek) were carried over to the television show.
Release Date1989-02-01
Charactersd Tina's mom
Episode Count1
The Casagrandes Movie
On a birthday trip to Mexico, 12-year-old Ronnie Anne accidentally frees a demigod trapped in a mountain and needs her family's help to set things right.
Release Date2024-03-21
Charactersd Rosa (voice)
Vote Count43
Death Wish
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.
Release Date1974-07-24
Charactersd Grocery Clerk (uncredited)
Vote Count884
Godmothered
A young and unskilled fairy godmother that ventures out on her own to prove her worth by tracking down a young girl whose request for help was ignored. What she discovers is that the girl has now become a grown woman in need of something very different than a "prince charming."
Release Date2020-12-04
Charactersd Opal
Vote Count615
The Muppets Take Manhattan
When the Muppets graduate from Danhurst College, they take their song-filled senior revue to New York City, only to learn that it isn't easy to find a producer who's willing to back a show starring a frog and a pig. Of course, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy won't take no for an answer, launching a search for someone to take them to Broadway.
Release Date1984-06-27
Charactersd Customer at Sardi's
Vote Count387
The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
Elmo loves his fuzzy, well-worn blue blanket more than anything in the whole world. However, when Elmo's blanket gets sucked through a colorful, swirling tunnel into Grouchland, the yuckiest place on earth, Elmo goes on an adventure to Grouchland to retrieve his prized possession.
Release Date1999-10-01
Charactersd Maria
Vote Count89
Jim Henson Idea Man
Featuring unprecedented access to Jim Henson's personal archives, filmmaker Ron Howard brings us a fascinating and insightful look at a complex man whose boundless imagination inspired the world.
Release Date2024-05-18
Charactersd Maria (archive footage)
Vote Count39
Follow That Bird
Big Bird is sent to live far from Sesame Street by a pesky social worker, who thinks it would be better for him to live with other birds. Unhappy, Big Bird runs away from his foster home, prompting the rest of the Sesame Street gang to go on a cross-country journey to find him.
Release Date1985-08-02
Charactersd Maria
Vote Count85
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
Can there be such a thing as too much Christmas? Find out... when a magical Christmas wish is granted and Elmo gets to see what the world would be like if every day were Christmas! You'll enjoy lots of songs and holiday cheer with Elmo and his new friend Lightning, the reindeer, and discover for yourself why Christmas is best kept to one day a year!
Release Date1996-12-24
Charactersd Maria
Vote Count11
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! was a 1994 TV special that aired on ABC to celebrate Sesame Street's 25th anniversary. It was originally broadcast on May 18, 1994. The show featured Joe Pesci (as Ronald Grump), Corbin Bernsen (as real estate attorney, Arnie), Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman (as a Worm TV hosts), John Goodman (as Tough Guy Helpline operator), Charles Grodin (as Chaz), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (as reporter Kathie Lee Kathie), Rosie O'Donnell (as the Good Hope Fairy), Susan Sarandon (as Bitsy), Barbara Walters (reporting for 25/25), and Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford (as themselves).
Release Date1994-05-18
Charactersd Maria
Vote Count3
Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration
C is for Celebrate! Join host Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the residents of Sesame Street - human and monsters alike - to celebrate 50 years of learning, laughter, and love. Familiar felt faces like Roosevelt Franklin, Don Music, Sherlock Hemlock, and the Amazing Mumford join celebrity guests Norah Jones, Nile Rodgers, Sterling K. Brown, Meghan Trainor, Patti LaBelle, and Elvis Costello in this heartwarming special.
Release Date2019-11-09
Charactersd Maria
Vote Count6
Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days
A look back at 40 years of Seasame Street.
Release Date2010-01-05
Charactersd Maria (uncredited) (archive footage)
A Sesame Street Christmas Carol
Oscar the Grouch is visited by three ghosts in an attempt to teach him the true meaning of Christmas.
Release Date2006-12-01
Charactersd Maria (archive footage)
Vote Count6
Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?
Come one, come all for Sesame Street's 35th anniversary musical gathering! Is there one song the whole world can sing together? Find out when Super Grover embarks on an outrageous mission. There's musical mayhem when Oscar the Grouch gets a song stuck in Big Bird's head and our yellow-feathered friend begins his own search for someone to help him name that tune.
Release Date2004-03-06
Charactersd Maria
Vote Count1
The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland: Sing and Play
Elmo's back in Grouchland to sing some of his favorite songs with his new friend Grizzy. There's just one problem - Grouches aren't supposed to cooperate, so Grizzy won't sing along!
Release Date1999-09-07
Charactersd Maria (archive footage)
Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!
Big Bird and his pals are making musical mayhem as they sing the goofiest, nuttiest, silliest songs ever. Join in with Sesame Street favorites Oscar, Ernie, the Count, and more as they tickle your funny bone with tunes like, "Everything in the Wrong Place Ball," "Mary Had a Bicycle," and more. James Taylor drops by to sing "Jellyman Kelly," and Jeremy Irons, Jane Curtin, and Paul Simon lead an all-star cast of celebrities in the showstopper, "Put Down the Duckie." Songs: The Honker-Duckie-Dinger Jamboree; Ladybug Picnic; Jellyman Kelly; Wavin' Goodbye to You with My Heart; Old MacDonald Cantata; Everything in the Wrong Place Ball; One Banana; Calcutta Joe; Mary Had a Bicycle; Ten Tiny Turtles on the Telephone; Put Down the Duckie.
Release Date1990-04-30
Charactersd Maria
Vote Count3
Sesame Street: Elmopalooza!
Jon Stewart hosts the Sesame Street Muppets' 30 year celebration, but Elmo steps in when things go awry.
Release Date1998-02-20
Charactersd Maria
Vote Count5
Sesame Street: The Best of Elmo
The Best of Elmo is a 1994 Sesame Street video originally released on VHS as part of the "My Sesame Street Home Video" series. In this video, Elmo prepares for the "Monster Art Show", but he must choose only one of his drawings. He shows the drawings to his friends, who all like his drawings so much that he gives them the drawings. Will he have any left to enter? Maria (at the Fix-It Shop), Ruthie (at Finders Keepers), Zoe (at the park), and a blue Honker with a green nose all meet up with Elmo and ask him for pictures. A sequel, The Best of Elmo 2, was released in 2010.
Release Date1994-01-01
Charactersd Maria Rodriguez
Vote Count2
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
Sesame Street celebrated its 10th anniversary in the spring of 1979 with a half-hour PBS special hosted by James Earl Jones titled A Walking Tour of Sesame Street. The special aired on individual PBS stations at various times between March and May 1979. (Muppet Wiki)
Release Date1979-03-01
Charactersd Maria (archive footage) (uncredited)
Sesame Street | Put Down the Duckie: An All-Star Musical Special
The stars come out on Sesame Street in this fun-filled video featuring the show's most memorable moments. Sing-along in this star-studded celebration!
Release Date1988-10-05
Charactersd Maria
Vote Count1
Sesame Street: Sleepytime Songs & Stories
Bedtime Stories & Songs is a 1986 Sesame Street direct-to-video compilation, released on VHS as part of the My Sesame Street Home Video label. The video was re-released with different segments under the new title of Sleepytime Songs & Stories in 1996, and on DVD in 2005. The framing story involves Big Bird speaking to the audience, offering advice on the best ways to fall asleep. A Honker and her baby stop by, and Telly arrives for a sleepover with heaps of cuddly toys that he couldn't sleep without. Buster the Horse demonstrates how to fall asleep standing up and Susan comments from her apartment window.
Release Date1986-01-01
Charactersd Maria Rodriguez
Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
As the Metropolitan Museum of Art closes, Big Bird decides to leave his Sesame Street friends behind in search of Snuffy. Once locked inside for the night, educational hilarity ensues as Big Bird and Snuffy team up to help a small Egyptian boy solve a riddle - as the rest of the cast searches for their big, yellow friend.
Release Date1983-11-16
Charactersd Maria
Vote Count7
Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
Big Bird worries when Oscar tells him that if Santa Claus can't fit down the chimney on Christmas Eve, nobody would get presents.
Release Date1978-12-03
Charactersd Maria
Vote Count19
Sesame Street at Night?
Shalit is to host an adult 'look' at Sesame Street in a Festival '77 special for PBS. The 30-minute special, Sesame Street at Night? takes its theme from a critic's remark when TV's most popular children's series began eight years ago – 'It's too good for kids.
Release Date1977-03-01
Charactersd Maria (archive footage)
Sesame Street: Sing Along
Your Sesame Street friends are getting together to sing their favorite songs, and they're inviting you to join all the fun. So sing along with Big Bird, Grover, Ernie, and special guest star Madeline Kahn as they perform Sesame Street favorites "Sing" and "Rubber Duckie," as well as all-time classics like "Old MacDonald," the "Alphabet Song," and more!
Release Date1987-01-01
Charactersd Maria
A Special Sesame Street Christmas
Leslie Uggams hosts this take on A Christmas Carol, where she and fellow guest stars, Anne Murray, Imogene Coca, and Dickie Smothers try to get Oscar to stop being such a Grouch on Christmas.
Release Date1978-12-08
Charactersd Maria
Vote Count4
Night-Flowers
Two Vietnam vets, Tom and Nordi, live sad lives in a crumbling New Jersey city. Sharing a one room apartment, they talk about their inability to hold down real work, struggle to get noticed at the VA and fail to connect with women. This changes for Tom when he meets Marcella and they begin a relationship. However, he can't escape his past with Nordi and the toxic bond soon takes a gruesome turn.
Release Date1979-01-01
Charactersd Galicia
Sesame Street: Fiesta!
The loveable Sesame Street characters congregate on FIESTA! to sing some of their favorite songs. As always a few humans are along for the ride as well, and this time around Linda Ronstadt and Celia Cruz help out with some vocal melodies. A sing-along option allows viewers to flex their vocal chords as well, providing a lot of fun for all the family!
Release Date1997-12-01
Charactersd Maria Rodriguez
Vote Count3
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration is a special produced forSesame Street’s 25th anniversary. Released in a slightly different form on video as Sesame Street: 25 Wonderful Years in October 1993, the special was shelved for its broadcast premiere on PBS until 1994, during pledge drive season, and in many markets, aired as part of a marathon block with three show episodes. The special was a companion to the prime-time network special, Sesame Street's All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Release Date1993-10-29
Charactersd Maria Rodriguez
Vote Count3
Sesame Street: Elmo Visits the Firehouse
Elmo learns fire safety from Firefighter Bill. This all comes about because he was scared after being in a fire at Mr. Hooper's Store on Sesame Street. Elmo visits Engine Company 58 Ladder Company 26 of the FDNY where he gets to see the firetruck, try on a helmet, and learn about firefighters.
Release Date2002-09-03
Charactersd Maria
Vote Count1
Barney's Campfire Sing-Along
After listening to a story about camping read by her mom, Tina wishes that she could go camping someday. After Tina falls asleep, she dreams about a camping trip with Barney and the rest of the Backyard Gang. Barney takes the gang through different fun experiences from pitching tents to having a snack. In the mist of things, a storm comes around and Tina gets lost in the woods. Thanks to Barney's advice earlier of "Stay where you are, hug a tree and blow your whistle," everyone finds Tina and they continue onto more campfire fun. They even explore a cave where a bear lives. Back at the campfire, songs are sung around it and everyone learns how to make S'mores. After the trip is over, Tina wakes up and realizes it was all just a dream - and a magical one at that.
Release Date1990-06-08
Charactersd Tina's mom
Vote Count1
Sesame Street: The Alphabet Jungle Game
Elmo, Zoe and Telly are exploring the Alphabet Jungle, where letters grow on trees. Every letter from A to Y leads them on an animated alphabet adventure. But what about Z? What will happen if Zoe can't find her favorite letter? Come play the Alphabet Jungle Game and you'll find out!
Release Date1998-01-01
Charactersd Maria Rodriguez (voiceover)
Vote Count1
Getting Ready to Read
The video promotes reading skills with various Sesame inserts, along with a new framing sequence where Big Bird operates his own "Reading Hotline."
Charactersd Maria
Baby Balloon
A baby demonstrates 'happy,' 'surprised' and 'sad.'
Release Date1995-11-20
Charactersd Narrator (voice)
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Take a stroll down Sesame Street and witness the birth of the most influential children's show in television history. From the iconic furry characters to the classic songs you know by heart, learn how a gang of visionary creators changed the world.
Release Date2021-04-23
Charactersd Self
Vote Count24
I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story
A documentary about Caroll Spinney who has been Sesame Street's Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch since 1969. At 78-years-old, he has no intention of stopping.
Release Date2015-05-06
Charactersd Self
Vote Count44
Sesame Street: 50 Years of Sunny Days
For more than a half-century, Sesame Street has addressed and explained diversity, equity, and inclusion around the globe by using the universal tools of music, empathy and celebrity. Sesame Street: 50 Years of Sunny Days reflects upon the efforts that have earned the show respect and qualification around the globe. The special also chronicles the creation and introduction of a Black family of Sesame Street Muppets, Wes and Elijah Walker, a father-and-son duo who are at the heart of Sesame Workshop’s new racial justice initiative Coming Together.
Release Date2021-04-26
Charactersd Self
Vote Count4
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
An in-depth look at the life of the activist and musician, with archival material never seen before, with present-day footage of Buffy performing and interviews with her bandmates, colleagues and herself.
Release Date2022-09-08
Charactersd Self
Vote Count1
Alma's Way
Inspired by Manzano’s own childhood, ALMA’S WAY centers on 6-year-old Alma Rivera, a proud, confident Puerto Rican girl who lives in the Bronx with her family among a diverse group of close-knit friends and community members. Infused with Manzano’s humor and grounded in a social and emotional curriculum, the series will give children ages 4-6 the tools to find their own answers, express what they think and feel, and recognize and respect the unique perspective of others.
Release Date2021-10-04
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count54
Vote Count1
Plaza Sésamo: Bienvenida la primavera
Release Date2006-10-18
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Sesame Street Home Video Visits the Hospital
Sesame Street Home Video Visits the Hospital was one of two "Sesame Street Visits" titles, as part of an intended series. Produced in 1990 and released by Random House in 1991, the programs featured the cast of Sesame Street learning about important locations related to health and safety issues. The companion title was Sesame Street Home Video Visits the Firehouse.
Release Date1990-11-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Sesame Street: C Is for Cookie Monster
C is for Cookie and that's good enough for everyone! Celebrate all things Cookie Monster with this collection filled with sweet stories andscrumptious songs including favorites the "Cookiehood" story, Healthy Food Song with Wyclef Jean, the Cookie Tree story, and Cookie Monster's Sorting Song. Join Cookie in discovering that while having Food", and that it is important to eat healthy foods too. And just in time for the holidays, enjoy the special classic segment The Gingerbread Man Song. The Cookie Collection is a dozen delicious Cookie Monster favorites baked just for you!
Release Date2010-10-19
Sesame Street: Elmo's Super Numbers
Elmo loves using his super number math skills! Join him at the biggest number lovers' convention of the year, Numeric Con, taking place on Sesame Street. Elmo and Leela, who are excited fans who have dressed up as The Dark Nine and Princess Three-ah have a plan to take in all the sights. When numerical problems arise at the con, watch Elmo as he harnesses the powers of math to solve them, save the day and show everyone that numbers are super! Join Elmo and his "super friends" in this heroic number adventure full of fandom spoofs, tons of number segments, and full-length extra catalog video title, Elmo's Shape Adventure.
Release Date2014-10-07