First introduced alongside Raul Julia’s Raphael as the proprietors of L&R’s Fix-It Shop, Delgado was eventually paired with Sonia Manzano’s Maria when the Sesame Street producers wanted to explore storylines involving love, marriage, and parenthood. After a few primetime television appearances, a job in New York would change his life forever, not to mention the lives of countless children.ĭelgado joined the cast of Sesame Street in the show’s third season and played Luis Rodriguez for 44 years. He earned his Actors Equity card in 1968 working in summer stock and enrolled in CalArts as a theater major. His family later moved to Glendale, where he spent his teenage years and first explored his passions for music and theater. Known for his warm smile and gently soothing singing voice, Delgado was born in 1940 in Calexico, California, a town on the border between California and Mexico. Emilio Delgado, best known to generations of children, parents and grandparents as Sesame Street’s beloved Fix-It-Shop owner Luis, and for his appearances on many television series aimed at grown-up audiences, passed away on Maafter a long illness.
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