‘Sesame Street’ Star Emilio Delgado Dead At 81
etcanada.comEmilio Delgado, known as Luis on “Sesame Street”, has died at 81. His wife, Carol, told TMZ that Delgado was diagnosed with blood cancer Multiple myeloma in Dec.
2020 and was recently been in hospice. He died on March 10 at home in New York City surrounded by family. READ MORE: Johnny Brown, Comedian And ‘Good Times’ Actor, Dead At 84 Delgado played Luis, the Fix-It Shop owner for 40 years starting in 1971.
He took a short break in the 80s but quickly returned to the beloved children’s programme. Delgado appeared in a number of Sesame Street stage productions, conventions and other live theatres performances.
He also appeared in “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”, “House of Cards” and more. Most recently, he was the lead in the multi-city play Quixote Nuevo that ran until the pandemic shut down theatres. READ MORE: Ralph Ahn, ‘New Girl’ Actor Who Played Tran, Dead At 95: Jake Johnson, Lamorne Morris Pay Tribute “I’d been trying all my professional life to be somewhere I can change that, whether I was talking about it or trying to get into a project that showed Latinos in a good light,” Delgado told the Houston Chronicle in 2020. “That’s why Sesame Street was such a good thing.
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