Where is George Chakiris now?

Chakiris had a recurring role on the TV show Superboy as Professor Peterson and starred in Pale Blood, Human Target and The Girls of Lido. The actor’s last role was in a 1996 episode of the British sitcom Last of the Summer Wine before he retired. He is now 86 years old and lives in Los Angeles.

What did Chakiris play?

The handsome and exotic-looking actor subsequently landed roles in The Country Girl, The Girl Rush, Meet Me In Las Vegas and Jacques Demy’s The Young Girls Of Rochefort. He had the leading role in Two And Two Make Six and subsequently had a supporting role in the Charlton Heston starrer Diamond Head.

How old was Rachel Zegler when filming West Side Story?

She made her film debut playing Maria Vasquez in the 2021 musical drama West Side Story, for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. She was the first actress of Colombian descent to win the award and, at 20 years old, its youngest recipient.

Why is West Side Story not an opera?

Bernstein nonetheless insisted that “West Side Story” is not an opera because it doesn’t resolve itself in music. That qualification went out the window in 1984. Anything you wanted to call an opera could be an opera. Yet for the most part “West Side Story” on the lyric stage has pretended not to be an opera after all.

What ethnicity was Tony in the original West Side Story?

The character that eventually became Tony – the Polish-Irish Catholic boy in West Side Story – was an Irish Catholic.

Who was the tomboy in West Side Story?

In almost every West Side Story iteration, including the 1957 stage debut and 1961 film version, Anybodys is written and performed as a tomboy who wants to join the Jets. In Spielberg’s rendition, Anybodys is played by nonbinary actor, iris menas, and the character is depicted on screen as transmasculine.