  rita dolores moreno (born december 11, 1931) is a puerto rican actress and singer. she is the only hispanic and one of the few performers to have won all four major annual american entertainment awards, which include an oscar, an emmy, a grammy and a tony, and was the second puerto rican to win an oscar.speakers on healthcare ==early years== moreno, nicknamed "rosita", was born rosa dolores alverÃ­o"sag awards 2014: rita moreno receives lifetime achievement award"; new york times in humacao, puerto rico to rosa marÃ­a (nÃ©e marcano), a seamstress, and francisco josÃ© "paco" alverÃ­o, a farmer. moreno, whose mother was 17 at the time of her birth, was raised in nearby juncos.rita moreno profile at filmreference.com rita's mother moved to new york city in 1936, taking her daughter, but not her son, rita's younger brother, francisco. rita would later adopt the surname of her first stepfather, edward moreno, rosa maria's second husband, by whom rita would have a younger stepbrother, dennis moreno, who died in a car crash. ==career== rita began her first dancing lessons soon after arriving in new york with a spanish dancer known as "paco cansino", who was a paternal uncle of film star rita hayworth.. when she was 11 years old, she lent her voice to spanish language versions of american films. she had her first broadway role &mdash; as "angelina" in 
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