Rita Moreno
Moreno in 2013, photo by PrPhotos
Birth Name: Rosa Dolores Alverío
Place of Birth: Humacao, Puerto Rico
Date of Birth: December 11, 1931
Ethnicity: Puerto Rican
Rita Moreno is an American actress and singer. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for West Side Story (1961).
She was born in Humacao, Puerto Rico, the daughter of Rosa María Marcano and Francisco José “Paco” Alverío. Her family moved to New York City in the 1930s. Moreno was the surname of her first stepfather. Rita was married to cardiologist Leonard Gordon, with whom she has a daughter.
Rita’s paternal grandparents were Nemesio Alverio Rivera (the son of Severo Alverio and Fermina Rivera) and Dolores Carrión Carrion De Alverio (the daughter of Jose Dolores Carrión Y Rodriguez and Petra Carrión Y Guzmán De Carrión).
Rita’s maternal grandparents were Justino Marcano Rivera (the son of Isaac Marcano and Eulalia/Eulogia Rivera) and Trinidad López Morales (the daughter of Ramón López and Justa Morales).
Source: Immigration record of Rita’s mother – https://www.familysearch.org
I am from Madrid, Spain , and She can not pass in my country. She has native american features eyes , colours … she is a mixed with native or taino, not White hispanics.
you are an ignorant dumbhead
we had neighbors the riveros and they were from spain and the mum looked exactly like her and had the same eyes
she was born in spain and had ancestors from spain and france only
She looks like Dr. Laura lol
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Rita_Moreno_face.jpg
this woman was 80 years old at the time when the pic was taken
not bad ! Plastic surgery or noT. she looks awesome
plus she reminds me of the German migrants who do live in south america
this face is very european and nothing more or less
She used to look more ethnic back in the day. She looks mostly White in this picture.
She is of Spanish descent… she is European.
I doubt she’s purely Spanish. She has a similar phenotype to Dorothy Dandridge, although Dandridge looked more visibly “Black”. You just want everyone to be White, you must be one of those self hating mulattoes that wants to 100% White. How moronic and sad.
You want to tell me how she looks 100% Spanish?
http://urbanmilwaukee.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/ritasptfireyears.jpg
She does NOT look part black ok… No way when you see pics of her you think, she is black.. or part black… She looks European or very most mestiza.
California why so much anger and hate and people have a right to have their own opinion there are some obnoxious, racist people on here and you are one of them. I BET you and M, Midiori29 are the same. Same hate filled language and same M.O. of trying to deny someone isn’t fully European and making everyone half black. Yes I am part black and white and native american. I am proud of them all. My mother is black and I love her to death. I am a person of color and have no issue with my light brown skin. It seems you are the nutjob that has a problem. Buzz off.
Puerto Rico is not an island of mulattos. We were an autonomous region of Spain until the turn of the last century. Most of our population is of Spanish and Corsican descent, since the overwhelming majority of our people emigrated from Europe in the 19th century because of La Cedula Real de Gracias, granting citizenship and land to European Catholics. Rita Moreno is very much of Spanish descent, you don’t even have to take into account her phenotype but the fact that she’s from Humacao. The further you move away from the eastern coasts the fewer black and colored people there are.
she looks and looked even on the pics i have seen from her in the 50s+ 60s she was paler than the average SPANISH
you are right
she suspiciously looks more white since the 80s
she played also more white roles since then
but look at her face
she looks even more pale than the average spanish woman
i know what I’m talking of i was in spain several times
I recognized that there are several german rooted people in brazil and argentina and even in chile who look like her
Rita moreno is a legend
as a 20 something guy i did not know that she had a long career
i know her from THE NANNY where she played the evil teacher of Fran Dresher. She played the role of that teacher, who was named MISS WIKORECZ. wHICH is a polish name
but really rita moreno is one of those white hispanics. Like PITBULL, gloria estefan and maybe shakira
last year i watched old episode of MIAMI VICE where she played a role of a english american woman