America Ferrera
America Ferrera, 2006
Born	America Georgina Ferrera April 18, 1984 (1984-04-18) (age 24) Los Angeles, California, USA
Occupation	actress
Years active	2001 - Present
Awards won Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actress - Comedy Series 2007 Ugly Betty Golden Globe Awards Best Actress - Musical or Comedy Series 2007 Ugly Betty NAACP Image Awards Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series 2008 Ugly Betty Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series 2006 Ugly Betty

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Biography

Early life

Ferrera, the youngest of six siblings, was born in Los Angeles, California, to Honduran parents. She was raised by her mother in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles. She started acting at age eight in school plays and community theater. She attended George Ellery Hale Middle School and El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills. In interviews Ferrera has noted the contrast between the image of the “typical Latina” experience and her own childhood. Observing that growing up in a mostly Jewish, non-Latino neighborhood, she attended 52 bar mitzvahs and not a single quinceañera."^[1] Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ... Woodland Hills is a community within the City of Los Angeles. ... El Camino Real High School El Camino Real High School (also known locally as ECR and by some more recently as ELCO) is a public secondary school located in the Woodland Hills district of the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California. ... For the Brazilian pop singer, see Latino (singer). ... For other uses, see Jew (disambiguation). ... For the Brazilian pop singer, see Latino (singer). ... When a Jewish child reaches the age of maturity (12 years and one day for girls, 13 years and one day for boys) that child becomes responsible for him/herself under Jewish law; at this point a boy is said to become Bar Mitzvah (בר מצווה, son of the commandment... The Quinceañera or Quince años is, in some Spanish-speaking regions of the Americas, a young womans celebration of her fifteenth birthday, which is commemorated in a unique and different way from her other birthdays. ...

Career

In July of 2002, she made her first TV movie, Gotta Kick It Up! for The Disney Channel. That same year, she made her feature film debut in the indie sleeper hit Real Women Have Curves. Ferrera followed this with roles in both television Touched by an Angel and film The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and Lords of Dogtown. Ferrera received a 2005 Movieline Breakthrough Award. In December 2005, she appeared in the off-Broadway play Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, directed by Trip Cullman. Gotta Kick It Up is a Disney Channel Original Movie. ... The Disney Channel is a cable TV network run by The Walt Disney Company in the United States. ... America Ferrera as Ana Garcia in Real Women Have Curves Real Women Have Curves is a 2002 American movie starring America Ferrera. ... This section contains a list of trivia items. ... The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (released in the UK as The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants) is an American film, based on the novel of the same name by Ann Brashares, and released on June 1, 2005 by Warner Bros. ... Lords of Dogtown is a 2005 film directed by Catherine Hardwicke, written by Stacy Peralta. ...

She landed the lead role in Ugly Betty in 2006. Ugly Betty is an adaptation of the Colombian hit telenovela Betty La Fea, in which she portrays a girl whom her peers find extremely unattractive, thus the series title. As Betty Suarez, Ferrera wears braces, has bushy eyebrows and a disheveled wig, and make-up and clothing intended to downplay her own looks. Ferrera’s famous smile is reportedly insured by Lloyd's of London for $10 million.^[2] It’s in contrast to the rest of the show, where everybody else is glammed up”, adding that it was Ferrera herself who coined the term “Bettification” to describe the process.^[3] Ugly Betty is a Golden Globe, Peabody and Emmy Award-winning[1] American television comedy-drama series starring America Ferrera in the title role, along with Eric Mabius, Judith Light, Rebecca Romijn and Vanessa Williams. ... The Republic of Colombia is a country in north-western South America. ... Yo soy Betty, la fea (I am Betty, the ugly one),[1] also known as simply Betty la fea (Ugly Betty), was a popular telenovela (soap opera) filmed in Colombia, written by Fernando Gaitán and produced between 1999 through 2001 by the Colombian network RCN. Over a dozen versions... Beatriz Betty U. Suarez is a central fictional character and heroine of the American dramedy series Ugly Betty. ... It has been suggested that Council of Lloyds be merged into this article or section. ...

For her role in Ugly Betty, Ferrera won the 2007 Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Comedy or Musical, beating out fellow nominees Marcia Cross, Felicity Huffman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Mary-Louise Parker. As a result of the award, she was congratulated by the U.S. House of Representatives as being a role model for young Hispanics.^[4] On 28 January 2007 Ferrera won the prestigious Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Female Actor in a Comedy Series. She also starred in and executive produced the poignant short film Muertas. The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ... Marcia Anne Cross (born March 25, 1962 in Marlborough, Massachusetts) is an Emmy and Golden Globe Award-nominated American actress. ... Felicity Huffman (born December 9, 1962) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American film and television actress. ... This article is about the American actress. ... Mary-Louise Parker (born August 2, 1964) is an American actress. ... Hispanic (Spanish: ; Portuguese: ; Latin: , adjective from Hispānia, the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula) is a term that historically denoted relation to the ancient Hispania and its peoples. ... The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) is an American labor union representing over 120,000 film and television principal performers and background performers worldwide. ...

In 2007, Time Magazine chose Ferrera as one of the top artists and entertainers in their “Time 100: The Most Influential People In The World” issue.^[5] In July 2007, America Ferrera also won Imagen Foundation’s Creative Achievement Award.^[6] On September 16, 2007, Ferrera won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Comedy Series for her role of Betty Suarez on ABC’s Ugly Betty. In the summer of 2007, she wrapped filming on the sequel to The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. (Clockwise from upper left) Time magazine covers from May 7, 1945; July 25, 1969; December 31, 1999; September 14, 2001; and April 21, 2003. ... This is a list of winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. ...

Personal life

Ferrera is the youngest of six siblings which include one brother and four sisters. She dated Ryan Piers Williams, but they have now split. They first met while working on his student film at USC. Ferrera has repeatedly denied rumors that they are engaged.^[7] Although rumors that they had split up in January 2008 were not denied, America and Ryan attended the NAACP Awards together in February of 2008.

Ferrera attends the University of Southern California, where she is majoring in International Relations; as of January 2007, she lacked only one semester’s coursework to earn her degree.^[1] She spent the autumn of 2004 studying in the American University Washington Semester Program^[8] and also attended New York University as a part of their Spring in New York program in the spring of 2006 while she was performing in Dog Sees God. The Trojan Shrine, better known as Tommy Trojan located in the center of University of Southern California campus. ... Foreign affairs redirects here. ... For other universities known as American University, see American University (disambiguation). ...

In January 2008, Ferrera announced her endorsement of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's run for president and joined the senator and her daughter Chelsea Clinton during several campaign events in Nevada and Pennsylvania.^[9] She has been quoted as saying that the United States should take responsibility for illegal immigration and provide more help to immigrants.^[10] At the 2007 Independent Spirit Awards, Ferrera said that America won't be free until 2008 when George W. Bush leaves office.^[11] The Bush administration ends in 2009.^[12] Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is the junior United States Senator from New York, and is a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 presidential election. ... Chelsea Victoria Clinton (born February 27, 1980) is the daughter and only child of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and current New York Senator and 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. ... This article is about the U.S. State of Nevada. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... Founded in 1984, the Independent Spirit Awards were originally known as the FINDIE (Friends of Independents) Awards and presented winners with Plexiglas pyramids containing suspended shoestrings representing the paltry budgets of independent films. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America, originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ...

Filmography

Film

• 2002: Real Women Have Curves as Ana Garcia
• 2002: Gotta Kick It Up! as Yolanda
• 2004: $5.15/Hr.
• 2004: Darkness Plus Twelve as Luiza
• 2004: Plainsong as Victoria Roubideaux
• 2005: How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer
• 2005: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants as Carmen Lowell
• 2005: Lords of Dogtown as Thunder Monkey
• 2006: Steel City as Amy Barnes
• 2006: Planet H2O: “Water World” as the host^[13]
• 2007: Muertas as Rebecca
• 2007: La Misma Luna (post-production) as Marta
• 2007: Hacia la oscuridad (post-production) as Luiza
• 2008: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2^[14]
• 2008: Tinker Bell as Fawn (voice)

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Television

• 2002: Touched by an Angel: “The Word” as Charlee
• 2004: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as April Lopez
• 2006-present: Ugly Betty as Betty Suarez
• 2008: Nintendo DS commercial

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Producer

• 2007: Hacia la oscuridad (post-production) executive producer as Luiza

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Awards and nominations

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References

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External links

• America Ferrera at the Internet Movie Database
• Broadband video interview with America Ferrera, discussing Ugly Betty.
• America Ferrera at the Maxim Hot 100