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Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero Anderson (January 23, 1933 – January 30, 2024),[ professionally known as Chita Rivera, was an American actress, singer and dancer who originated roles in Broadway musicals including Anita in West Side Story, Velma Kelly in Chicago, and the title role in Kiss of the Spider Woman. She is a ten-time Tony Award nominee and a three-time Tony Award recipient, including one for Lifetime Achievement.She is the first Latina and the first Latino American to receive a Kennedy Center Honor and is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Her autobiography, Chita: A Memoir, was published in 2023.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/30/theater/chita-rivera-dead.html
Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero was born 23 January 1933 in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Pedro Julio Figueroa del Rivero and Katherine Anderson. When Chita was born her father, a clarinetist and saxophonist for the U.S. Navy Band, was 33 and her mother, a government clerk, was 27. Her father was a native of Puerto Rico and her mother was of Scottish, Irish, and African-American descent.[8] Rivera was one of five children.[9] Her father died when she was eight years old.
At the time of the 1940 U.S. Census, she lived with her family in Police Precinct 13, Washington, District of Columbia. [10]
Rivera married fellow West Side Story dancer Tony Mordente on 1 December 1957 during the Broadway run of the show. Chita's performance was so integral to the show that the London production of West Side Story was postponed until she gave birth to the couple's daughter Lisa in 1958. Chita and Tony were divorced in 1966.[11]
She died on 30 January 2024, in New York City, New York, United States, at the age of 91.[12]
Wikipedia contributors, "Chita Rivera," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chita_Rivera (accessed February 6, 2017).
1933 |
January 23, 1933
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Washington, D.C., U.S.
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1958 |
July 30, 1958
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New Hyde Park, Nassau County, NY, United States
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2024 |
January 30, 2024
Age 91
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New York, New York, United States
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