Sofía Vergara
Colombia Actress and Television Personality
| Date of Birth | : | 10 Jul, 1972 |
| Place of Birth | : | Atlántico, Colombia |
| Profession | : | Actress |
| Nationality | : | Colombian |
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Sofía Vergara is a Colombian and American actress and television personality. She is known for her role as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett in the ABC sitcom Modern Family (2009–2020) and Griselda Blanco in the Netflix miniseries Griselda (2024). She received five nominations each at the Primetime Emmy Awards and the Golden Globe Awards for both performances. The former also established her as one of the highest-paid actresses in the United States.
Vergara rose to prominence while co-hosting two television shows for Spanish-language television network Univision in the late 1990s. After acting in the English-language film Chasing Papi (2003), she subsequently appeared in Four Brothers (2005) and Tyler Perry's comedies Meet the Browns (2008) and Madea Goes to Jail (2009). Vergara also acted in New Year's Eve (2011), The Three Stooges (2012), Machete Kills (2013), Fading Gigolo (2013), Chef (2014), and Hot Pursuit (2015). She has also had voice-over roles in the animated films Happy Feet Two (2011), The Emoji Movie (2017), and Despicable Me 4 (2024).
Career
After an appearance in a Pepsi commercial that was broadcast all over her native Colombia, Sofia moved to Bogota at the age of 20, where she worked on the runway and on television. She is the only Hispanic actress who started her career in a U.S. Hispanic Network and successfully crossed over to the general market. When she started acting she was a natural blonde, She would go to auditions and they wouldn't know where to put her because they thought that all Latinos should look like Salma Hayek.
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