Shelley Morrison (born October 26, 1936 in New York City) is an American actress. October 26 is the 299th day of the year (300th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 66 days remaining. ... See also: 1935 in television, other events of 1936, 1937 in television and the list of years in television. Events July 7 - NBCs first attempt at actual programming is a 30-minute variety show featuring speeches, dance ensembles, monologues, vocal numbers, and film clips. ... The Empire State Building (right) and the Chrysler Building (left) are easily recognized symbols of New York City to the world. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

Born Rachel Mitriani and sometimes credited early in her career as Rachel Dominguez, Morrison has been a stage and television actress since the early 1960s. She was a regular performer on the sitcom The Flying Nun playing "Sister Sixto", and she continued in television guest roles until securing a recurring role in the soap opera General Hospital in 1982. For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... The Flying Nun was a sitcom produced by the ABC from 1967 until 1970. ... The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of Our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television... General Hospital is the longest-running daytime soap opera on the American ABC television network, and is also the longest-running soap opera produced in Hollywood (having been taped at the Prospect Avenue ABC Television Center West since its inception). ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Although she has played a variety of stereotypical Hispanic roles going all the way back to her days as “Sister Sixto” on The Flying Nun, “Juanita” on Sisters, and continuing on to her role as Salvadoran maid “Rosario Ynez Consuela Yolanda Salazar” on Will & Grace, Shelley Morrison was actually raised in the Bronx, New York, the only daughter of Sephardic Jewish parents. Her father, Maurice Morris, was a clothing manufacturer who died when she was only 10, and shortly before his death he had relocated the family to Los Angeles. Morrison went on to study acting at Los Angeles City College and landed early film roles in Divorce American Style and How to Save a Marriage (And Ruin Your Life). A bout with breast cancer in 1988 forced her to undergoing a lumpectomy, and when the cancer recurred in 1998 she underwent a full mastectomy. She also has battled lung cancer and underwent surgery which removed the upper third of her right lung. She currently lives with her husband, Walter Dominguez, in a three-story apartment in Los Angeles; the same apartment in which her father had settled the family into five decades earlier. Will & Grace is an American television situation comedy focusing on Will Truman, a gay attorney and his best friend Grace Adler, a straight Jewish woman who runs her own interior design firm. ... In the strictest sense, a Sephardi (ספרדי, Standard Hebrew Səfardi, Tiberian Hebrew Səp̄ardî; plural Sephardim: ספרדים, Standard Hebrew Səfardim, Tiberian Hebrew Səp̄ardîm) is a Jew original to the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal: ספרד, Standard Hebrew Səfárad, Tiberian Hebrew Səp̄áraḏ / Səp̄āraḏ), or whose ancestors were among the Jews expelled from... Judaism is the religion of the Jewish people. ... Los Angeles City College is a community college in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, on Vermont Avenue south of Santa Monica Boulevard. ... Breast cancer is cancer of breast tissue. ... Lumpectomy is a common surgical procedure designed to remove a discreet lump (usually a tumour, benign or otherwise) from an affected womans breast. ... In medicine, mastectomy is the medical term for the surgical removal of one or both breasts, partially or completely. ...

Her most widely recognisable recent role has been as the Salvadoran maid Rosario Salazar in the NBC comedy television series Will & Grace. The role was originally created for a brief one episode appearance, but was so popular with viewers, that the character became a regular. In addition to sparring with her employer Karen Walker, played by Megan Mullally, the Rosario storyline has also allowed her to marry Jack McFarland, played by Sean Hayes in a marriage of convenience designed to prevent her impending deportation. Rosario Inez Consuela Yolanda Salazar (known also as Rosie and Ro-Ro) is a character on the American television sitcom Will & Grace. ... The National Broadcasting Company or NBC is an American television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... Comedy is the use of humor in the form of theater, where it simply referred to a play with a happy ending, in contrast to a tragedy. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Will & Grace is an American television situation comedy focusing on Will Truman, a gay attorney and his best friend Grace Adler, a straight Jewish woman who runs her own interior design firm. ... Karen Walker Karen Walker (née Karen Delaney) is a fictional character on the American television sitcom Will & Grace. ... Mullally as Karen Walker in Will & Grace Megan Mullally (born November 12, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress. ... John Phillip Jack McFarland (born in 1969) is a character on the American television sitcom Will & Grace, played by Sean Hayes. ... Sean Hayes at the SAG Awards Sean Patrick Hayes (born June 26, 1970 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor. ...

In approximately 25 film appearances and 35 television appearances, Morrison has portrayed a maid or housekeeper on 32 separate occasions (including in Columbo and the film Troop Beverly Hills.) Morrison had just recently informed her agent not to offer her any more "maid parts" when the call for Will & Grace came in. DVD cover of Columbo - The Complete First Season Columbo was an American crime fiction TV series created by Richard Levinson and William Link. ... The DVD cover to Troop Beverly Hills. ...

Morrison has revealed that she was diagnosed with cancer in recent years, but that she is now in remission. When normal cells are damaged beyond repair, they are eliminated by apoptosis. ... Remission is the state of absence of disease activity in patients with known chronic illness. ...

Morrison was charged with shoplifting from a California department store in 2003, but the charges have since been dropped. Shoplifting (also known as retail theft) is theft of merchandise for sale in a shop, store, or other retail establishment, by an ostensible patron. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 3rd 410,000 km² 402. ... A department store is a retail establishment which specializes in selling a wide range of products without a single predominant merchandise line. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Shelley Morrison at the Internet Movie Database