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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.

Her most widely recognisable recent role has been as the El Salvadorean maid Rosaria Salazar in the NBC comedy television series Will & GraceWill & Grace is an American television situation comedy focusing on a heterosexual woman and her gay best friend. The show debuted on the NBC network in 1998 and steadily gained in popularity, culminating when it moved to Thursday night as part of NBC's ". 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 MullallyMegan Mullally (born November 12, 1958 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress. The daughter of a model and an actor, Mullally decided as a child that she would become an actress. Growing up in Oklahoma, her popularity in college stage producti, the Rosario storyline has also allowed her to marry Jack MacFarland, played by Sean HayesSean Patrick Hayes (born June 26, 1970 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor. Trained in the theater in his native Chicago, Hayes moved to Los Angeles in 1995, where he found work as a stand-up comedian. His film debut in the independent film Billy's in a marriage of convenience designed to prevent her impending deportation.

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.

Morrison has revealed that she was diagnosed with cancerFor other meanings of Cancer: see Cancer (disambiguation . apoptosis; cancer cells, however, avoid apoptosis. Cancer is a group of related diseases characterized by uncontrolled cell division. Currently, it is believed that cancers arise from both genetic in recent years, but that she is now in remissionRemission is the state of absence of disease activity in patients with known chronic illness. It is commonly used to refer to absence of active cancer or inflammatory bowel disease. REMISSION ''n (lat. remittere): In spectrosopy, the term "remission" refe.