Rita Moreno (born December 11, 1931) is a Puerto Rican singer, dancer and actress. she plays Luisa Diaz, Benny's mother, and George's grandmother, in the Season 6 episode "George Testi-Lies for Benny". She and Belita Moreno, who plays the part of Benny on the series, are not related.
But in what would be her first clear experience of how little power she had in that era, the teenager known as Rosa Dolores Alverio was forced to change her name. "They didn't know what to do with me because of my name," she says. "I didn't like the name Rita but they chose it because I liked the actress Rita Hayworth.
Aurabela "Belita" Moreno (born November 1, 1949) is an American actress best known for her roles as Benita "Benny" Lopez on the ABC sitcom George Lopez and Edwina Twinkacetti and Lydia Markham on Perfect Strangers.
Moreno was a guest star on the George Lopez Show in 2007, playing his mother, Luisa Diaz. Which is the first place she met Mayan, who is now 26. “It's a wonderful set. Everybody seems to be like a family, which is the best thing you can say for a cast on a comedy show.
Belita Moreno was born on November 1, 1949 in Dallas, Texas, USA. She is an actress, known for Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Clear and Present Danger (1994) and George Lopez (2002). She has been married to Joel Rudnick since July 12, 1981. They have two children.
The West Side Story star shares daughter Fernanda Luisa Gordon with her late husband Leonard Gordon. Moreno and Leonard, a former doctor who later managed Moreno's career, got married in 1965 and welcomed Fernanda a year later.
Rita Moreno has had a long, legendary career in Hollywood and an equally storied dating history, having dated both Elvis and Marlon Brando, but the EGOT winner had one relationship that spanned the majority of her career — her marriage to Leonard Gordon.
George Lopez was born on April 23, 1961, in Mission Hills, Los Angeles, California, the son of Frieda and Anatasio Lopez, a migrant worker. He is of Mestizo Mexican descent.
Storyline. In a plea to get Max additional help in school, George confesses to his long-lost sister, Superintendent of Schools Linda Lorenzo, that she was given up for adoption at birth, and worse, Benny is her real mother.
Veronica Ann Palmero (Aimee Garcia) is George and Angie's wealthy, spoiled niece, whose trust fund was left under George's care after the passing of her mother.
But offstage, her night was only getting started: After accepting the award from Hudson, she ran into Joan Crawford backstage, who was there to present the best actor award and, as Moreno put it, “drunk as a skunk on vodka.” “She hugged me so hard she covered my face entirely,” Moreno said.
Rita Moreno does not currently have a husband. Her late husband, her only husband, was Leonard Gordon. Gordon was a cardiologist and internist before retiring from medicine to become his wife's manager.
Family is very important to Moreno; she also loves cooking, especially Puerto Rican and Cuban food. Her go-to dish is rice and beans with sweet plantains.
Given the nickname “Rosita,” when she was young, Moreno's birth name was Rosa Dolores Alverío. She spent much of her childhood on a Puerto Rican farm until she was five years old. Her mother saved enough money for them to move to New York, but Moreno's little brother Francisco had to be left behind.
In her 2011 memoir Rita Moreno: A Memoir, she writes according to Slate that she became pregnant with Marlon's child, and he ultimately forced her to get an abortion - which she described as “botched.” She also writes that Marlon frequently cheated on her, and apparently threw a chair across the room when he learned ...
Rodriguez is most known for his role as Ernesto "Ernie" Cardenas on George Lopez as George's best friend and his co-worker throughout the series for 6 years and appeared in 120 episodes.
Lopez, a Mexican-American, was born in Mission Hills, California. He was deserted by his father at birth, but was raised by his maternal grandmother, Benita Gutierrez, a factory worker, and step-grandfather Refugio Gutierrez, a construction worker. In 1993, Lopez married Ann Serrano.
