# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sonia-manzano
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:03:44.836Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sonia-manzano"
name: "Sonia Manzano"
slug: "sonia-manzano"
description: "Sonia Manzano is an American actress, writer and speaker. She is best known for playing Maria on Sesame Street from 1971 to 2015. She received a Lifetime Achievement Daytime Emmy Award in 2016."
tagline: "American television personality"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sonia_Manzano_-_2015_National_Book_Festival.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1950-06-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.2
  momentum:             8.538102643856922
  historical:           13.000808
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/SoniaMManzano"
    handle:    "SoniaMManzano"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0544448/"
    handle:    "nm0544448"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.soniamanzano.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Manzano"
    title: "Sonia Manzano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88"
    title: "سونيا مانزانو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Manzano"
    title: "Sonia Manzano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Manzano"
    title: "Sonia Manzano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Manzano"
    title: "Sonia Manzano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Manzano"
    title: "Sonia Manzano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Manzano"
    title: "Sonia Manzano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%86%8C%EB%8B%88%EC%95%84_%EB%A7%8C%EC%9E%90%EB%85%B8"
    title: "소니아 만자노"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Manzano"
    title: "Sonia Manzano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Manzano"
    title: "Sonia Manzano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Manzano"
    title: "Sonia Manzano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Manzano"
    title: "Sonia Manzano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Manzano"
    title: "Sonia Manzano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://wa.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Manzano"
    title: "Sonia Manzano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Manzano"
    title: "Sonia Manzano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7561732"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/120608"
    title: "Sonia Manzano"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump