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“The best thing I ever did for myself ever–ever–was to go into psychotherapy because I was such an unhappy, miserable, sad, angry young woman for a very, very long time,” she said. Opening up about her mental health struggles, the actress explained that despite gaining success, undoing the damage that discrimination did to her self-worth took a lot of work. Moreno’s first big break came at only 13 years old with her Broadway debut as “Angelina” in Skydrift, and she has since appeared in projects across the entertainment industry. Glamorous, funny and blunt, Moreno guided the audience through the trials and tribulations of her long career. “It involved a great deal of pain and disappointments and hurts and being very defensive about who I was for a very long time,” she said. Moreno has long been viewed as a Hollywood icon, but she spent years being overlooked or pigeonholed by studios. Moreno explained that visual representation of Latinos in films was very limited and she grew up with a very warped perception of her own identity and value as a person because of it.

Rita moreno 2022 series#

She is one of only 17 individuals to win the prestigious series of EGOT awards- the Emmy, the Grammy, the Oscar and the Tony.

Moreno’s career has spanned over seven decades and 40 feature films. 20, CU Boulder’s Cultural Events Board held a conversation in the Universal Memorial Center with actress, singer and activist Rita Moreno.

20, 2022 (Courtesy of Patrick Campbell, University of Colorado) Rita Moreno discusses her life and career with the CEB at the University Memorial Centre’s Glenn Miller Ballroom.