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Sofía Vergara

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This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Vergara and the second or maternal family name is Vergara.

Sofía Vergara
Vergara in May 2014
Born     Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara July 10, 1972 (age 42)[1] Barranquilla, Atlántico, Colombia Nationality     Colombian-American Other names     La Toti Occupation     Actress, comedian, model, television host and producer Years active     1995–present Religion     Roman Catholic Spouse(s)     Joe Gonzalez (m. 1991–93)[2] Children     1 Website www.sofiavergara.com Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara (Spanish pronunciation: [soˈfi.a βerˈɣaɾa]; born July 10, 1972)[3] is a Colombian-American actress, comedian, producer, television host, model and businesswoman. Vergara was widely known for co-hosting two television shows for Spanish-language television network Univisión in the late 1990s. Her first notable acting job in English was in the film Chasing Papi (2003). Subsequently, she appeared in other films, including Four Brothers (2005) and two Tyler Perry films—Meet the Browns (2008) and Madea Goes to Jail (2009), receiving an ALMA Award nomination for the latter. Vergara's success on television has earned her roles in recent films The Smurfs (2011), New Year's Eve (2011), Happy Feet Two (2011), The Three Stooges (2012), Escape from Planet Earth (2013), Machete Kills (2013), and Chef (2014). In 2012 and 2013, she was the top-earning actress on US television.[4] Vergara stars on the ABC series Modern Family as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, for which she has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards, and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards.[5] In 2014, she was ranked as the 32nd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.[6]

Contents

    1 Early life
    2 Career
    3 Endorsements
    4 Personal life
    5 Filmography
        5.1 Film
        5.2 Television
        5.3 Producer
        5.4 Music video
        5.5 Theater
    6 Awards and nominations
    7 See also
    8 References
    9 External links

Early life

Vergara was born in Barranquilla, Colombia,[2] to Margarita Vergara Dávila de Vergara, a homemaker, and Julio Enrique Vergara Robayo, a cattle producer for the meat industry.[7][8][9] She was given the nickname Toti[10] by her five brothers and sisters and many cousins. Vergara is a devout Catholic and attended Marymount School Barranquilla, a private bilingual Spanish/English school.[citation needed]

Vergara initially studied dentistry at a university in Colombia, but left two semesters shy of her degree to pursue opportunities in modeling and show business.[7][11] She subsequently moved to Miami, leaving behind unrest in Colombia, where her older brother[12] Rafael[2] was murdered in 1998[10] during an attempt to kidnap him.[7] Her cousin and adopted sister, Sandra, is also a television actress in the United States.[13][14]
Career
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Vergara was discovered by a photographer while walking on a Colombian beach and was soon presented with offers of modeling and television work.[15] Vergara was "apprehensive about doing her first television commercial—until her Catholic schoolteachers gave her their personal permission to take the assignment."[16] Vergara made her first appearance as a performer at the age of 17 in a Pepsi commercial that was widely broadcast in Latin America.[17

Vergara in February 2011

At age 20, Vergara moved to Bogotá, Colombia, where she worked as a runway model and television actress. From 1995 to 1998, she was co-host with Fernando Fiore of Fuera de serie ("Out of the Ordinary" or "Over-the-Top"), a travel series in which she visited exotic places around the world. It was telecast on the international Univisión Spanish-language television network and made her a star in the Latin American market. It also gave Vergara television exposure in the United States via the Univisión stations there. She co-hosted the Univisión show A que no te atreves ("I Dare You") and appeared as a guest star in the season-four opening of the HBO series Entourage. She was photographed for posters and swimsuit calendars, in 1998, 2000 and 2002.

Vergara at the 70th Golden^]

Personal life

Vergara at the 2009 American Music Awards

Vergara was married at the age of 18 to her high-school sweetheart, Joe Gonzalez.^[2] She gave birth to their son Manolo in September 1992.^[32] They divorced in 1993.^[2] On May 9, 2011, Vergara's younger brother Julio was deported from the United States to Colombia after being arrested in April that year; Julio also had a longtime drug addiction and previous brushes with the law.^[33][34] "To see somebody dying over 10 years, little by little, that's the worst punishment," Vergara told Parade magazine. "Now he's like another person."^[35]

Vergara was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2000. She had her thyroid removed, underwent radioiodine therapy, and made a full recovery.^[36] She takes medication to prevent hypothyroidism.^[37]

On July 10, 2012, it was reported that Vergara and her boyfriend Nick Loeb were engaged.^[38][39][40] On May 23, 2014, Vergara announced that the engagement had been called off.^[41] On 1 May 2015, it was reported that Vergara and Loeb were in dispute regarding the future of two embryos they had frozen while they were together.^[42]

In July 2014, it was reported that Vergara began dating True Blood star Joe Manganiello.^[43] The pair became engaged on Christmas Day 2014 after six months of dating.^[44]

During her December 2014 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Vergara revealed that she had become an American citizen.^[45][46][47]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Big Trouble	Nina
2003	Chasing Papi	Cici
2004	The 24th Day	Isabella
2004	Soul Plane	Blanca
2005	Lords of Dogtown	Amelia
2005	Four Brothers	Sofi
2006	Grilled	Loridonna
2006	National Lampoon's Pledge This!	Herself
2008	Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns	Cheryl
2009	Madea Goes to Jail	T.T.
2011	The Smurfs	Odile Anjelou
2011	New Year's Eve[48]	Ava
2011	Happy Feet Two	Carmen	Voice
2012	The Three Stooges	Lydia Harter
2013	Escape from Planet Earth	Gabby Babblebrook	Voice
2013	Machete Kills	Madame Desdemona
2013	Fading Gigolo	Selima
2014	Chef	Inez
2015	Wild Card	D. D.
2015	Hot Pursuit		Post-production

Television

Vergara at the 2015 PaleyFest for Modern Family

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Acapulco, cuerpo y alma	Irasema
1995–1998	Fuera de serie[1]	Herself	Co-host
1999	A que no te atreves[49]	Herself	Co-host
1999	Baywatch [50]	Herself	1 episode : Season 9 (1999) "Boys will be Boys"
2002	My Wife and Kids	Selma	1 episode: Season 3 (2002) "Samba Story"
2004	Eve	April Perez	1 episode
2004	Rodney	Carmen	1 episode "Dream Lover"
2005	Hot Properties	Lola Hernandez	13 episodes
2005	Punk'd[51]	Herself	1 episode : Season 5, episode 4
2007	Entourage	Village Girl	1 episode "Welcome to the Jungle"
2007	Amas de Casa Desesperadas	Alicia Oviedo	23 episodes
2007	The Knights of Prosperity	Esperanza Villalobos	13 episodes
2007	Dirty Sexy Money	Sofía Montoya	4 episodes
2008	Fuego en la sangre	Leonora	10 episodes
2008	Men in Trees	Pilar Romero	2 episodes
2009	Dancing with the Stars[citation needed]	Herself	Guest Appearance
2009–present	Modern Family	Gloria Delgado-Pritchett	Main role 120 episodes
2011	Plaza Sésamo[citation needed]	Herself
2012	Saturday Night Live	Host	Season 37, Episode 18
2013	The Cleveland Show	Señora Chalupa	1 episode "The Essence of Cleveland"
2013	Family Guy	Buxom Woman / Hispanic Woman	1 episode "The Giggity Wife"

Producer

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2014	Killer Women	Executive producer

Music video

Year	Title	Artist
1997	"Que Diera"	Carlos Vives

Theater

Chicago as Matron "Mama" Morton (2009)^[52]

Awards and nominations

In 2014, Vergara was ranked as the 32nd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. She had risen from her 2013 position at no. 38.^[6]

Year	Award	Nominated work	Category	Result
2005	Black Reel Award	Four Brothers	Best Ensemble (with cast)	Nominated
2009	Screen Actors Guild Award	Modern Family	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (with cast)	Nominated
2009	ALMA Award	Madea Goes to Jail	Best Actress in Film	Nominated
2010	NAACP Image Award	Modern Family	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series	Nominated
2010	Golden Globe Award	Modern Family	Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film	Nominated
2010	Primetime Emmy Award	Modern Family	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series	Nominated
2010	Screen Actors Guild Award	Modern Family	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series	Nominated
2010	Screen Actors Guild Award	Modern Family	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (with cast)	Won
2011	ALMA Award	Modern Family	Favorite TV Actress in a Leading Role	Nominated
2011	Golden Globe Award	Modern Family	Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film	Nominated
2011	Imagen Foundation Award	Modern Family	Best TV Actress	Won
2011	NAACP Image Award	Modern Family	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series	Won
2011	2011 Kids' Choice Awards	The Smurfs	Favorite Film Actress	Nominated
2011	Primetime Emmy Award	Modern Family	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series	Nominated
2011	Satellite Award	Modern Family	Best Supporting TV Actress	Nominated
2011	Screen Actors Guild Award	Modern Family	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (with cast)	Won
2011	Golden Raspberry Award	New Year's Eve	Worst Ensemble (with cast)	Nominated
2011	Screen Actors Guild Award	Modern Family	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series	Nominated
2012	Screen Actors Guild Award	Modern Family	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series	Nominated
2012	Screen Actors Guild Award	Modern Family	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (with cast)	Won
2012	ALMA Award	Modern Family	Favorite TV Actress in a Leading Role	Nominated
2012	Primetime Emmy Award	Modern Family	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series	Nominated
2012	Glamour Awards	N/A	Comedy Actress	Won
2012	Golden Globe Award	Modern Family	Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film	Nominated
2013	Golden Globe Award	Modern Family	Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film	Nominated
2013	Screen Actors Guild Award	Modern Family	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (with cast)	Won
2013	Primetime Emmy Award	Modern Family	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series	Nominated
2013	People's Choice Award	Modern Family	Favorite TV Comedy Actress	Nominated
2014	Golden Globe Award	Modern Family	Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film	Nominated
2014	2014 Kids' Choice Awards	Modern Family	Favorite Funny Star	Nominated

See also

Colombia portal Biography portal

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