America Ferrera
America Ferrera was born in Los Angeles, California, United States on April 18th, 1984 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 40, America Ferrera biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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America Georgine Ferrera (born April 18, 1984) is an American actress, voice actor, producer, and director.
Ferrera, a native of Los Angeles, California, grew an interest in acting at a young age, appearing in several stage performances at her kindergarten.
She made her debut with the comedy drama Real Women Have Curves in 2002, receiving accolades for her role.
Ferrera has received several awards, including an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actor Guild Award, among others. Ferrera found modest success early in her career, appearing in films like Gotta Kick It Up! The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005), a 2002 film that culminated in the winning of the Imagen Award Best Actress and her first nomination at the ALMA Awards.
She branched out into television acting and became the first female appearance on ABC's comedy drama "Ugly Betty" (2006-2010).
Ferrera earned critical acclaim for her role as Betty Suarez in the series's fifth film premiere in 2007, including the Golden Globe Awards, the Screen Actor Guild Awards, and the Primetime Emmy Award, the first for a Latin woman in the category. The drama The Dry Land (2010), the romantic comedy Our Family Wedding (2010), and the crime drama End of Watch (2012) were some of Ferrera's other film appearances.
Astrid Hofferson appeared in the How to Train Your Dragon film, as well as the television show Dreamworks Dragons.
Amy Sosa, co-produces and stars in the NBC comedy series Superstore (2015–present). Ferrera's Ugly Betty received a lot of attention.
In 2007, Time magazine named her one of the world's most influential individuals.
Early life and education
Ferrera, the youngest of six children, was born in Los Angeles, California. América Griselda Ayes and Carlos Gregorio Ferrera's parents, who were born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and immigrated to the United States in the mid-1970s. Ferrera has claimed that she has ancestry from Lenca. Her mother served as the head of one of the Hilton Hotels' housekeeping staff, emphasizing the importance of higher education. When she was seven years old, her parents divorced and her father returned to Honduras. When Ferrera died in 2010, she was estranged from her father.
Ferrera was raised in Los Angeles's Woodland Hills neighborhood, where she attended Calabash Street Elementary School, George Ellery Hale Middle School, and El Camino Real High School. Ferrera knew she wanted to be a performer from the age of seven, when she first appeared in a school production of Hamlet, and then as the Artful Dodger in Oliver. Romeo and Juliet was her first performance, but she was accepted into the junior high school and auditioned for the position of the Apothecary. She appeared in school plays and community theatre in Los Angeles throughout her youth, but she had no assistance from her mother, who continued to pursue other interests because she was concerned that her daughter would not be treated fairly. Ferrera reacted angrily when she was a child and went by her middle name, "Georgina" until she began to act professionally.
She began attending acting lessons at the age of 15 and was able to pay for them by waiting tables and babysitting while attending El Camino High School. She began studying in theatre and international relations at the University of Southern California (USC) on a presidential scholarship. She dropped out to concentrate on her acting career, but she earned her bachelor's degree in May 2013.
Personal life
In a college film at the University of Washington, Ferrera first met actor, director, and writer Ryan Piers Williams. The couple got engaged in June 2010 and married on June 27, 2011. Ferrera and Williams announced on January 1, 2018 that they were expecting their first child. On May 29, 2018, she revealed on her Instagram page that she had given birth to Sebastian, a boy. Lucia, Ferrera's daughter, was born on May 4, 2020. Ferrera and Williams had been together for a total of 15 years as a couple on June 27, 2020.
The editor of American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures, was released by Gallery Publishing Group in 2018.
Career
Ferrera appeared in her first television film, Gotta Kick It Up, in July 2002. The Disney Channel is a cable television network. She made her debut in Real Women Have Curves while attending a Northwestern University theater program the same year. Ferrera continued in television (Touched by an Angel). She also appeared in the film Plainsong, based on Kent Haruf's book, which also included Aidan Quinn and Rachel Griffiths. Ferrera played Victoria Roubideaux, a teenage girl who has been kicked out of her mother's house; two kindly brothers who live alone on a farm took her in. Bianca, a 17-year-old third-generation Mexican-American who is dissatisfied with the boys in her neighborhood, meets romance with a boy from a neighboring town in 2005's How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer. She appeared in the short film 3:52, which received the Audience Award at the San Diego Women Film Festival in 2006. Later this year, she appeared in the film Steel City, which received awards at the Film Independent Spirit Awards and the Sundance Film Festival. She appeared in Dog Sees God: The Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, directed by Trip Cullman in December 2005.
Ferrera landed Betty Suarez, an adaptation of the famous Colombian telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea, in which Ferrera portrays a girl who her peers regard as unattractive, thus the series name. In comparison to most of the "glammed up" characters, Betty Suarez, Ferrera's braces, has bushy eyebrows and a tangled wig, and makeup and clothing intended to downplay her own appearance; Ferrera introduced the term "bettification" to characterize the process of making her onscreen persona. Ferrera received numerous accolades for her role in the series, including the Golden Globe Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series, and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, making her the first Latina woman to receive the Outstanding Lead Actress Award.
Ferrera was congratulated by Hilda L. Solis in the United States House of Representatives for her "helping to debunk myths and be a role model for young Latinas" in the aftermath of her Golden Globe victory. Time honored Ferrera in their 2007 list of the world's 100 most influential individuals. Ferrera received the Imagen Foundation's Creative Achievement Award in 2007. Ferrera appeared in the 2005 film The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and reprised the role in 2008's The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2. She appeared in the hit animated film How to Train Your Dragon (2010) as the voice of Astrid. She appeared in The Dry Land at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival as a principal in the Best Narrative Feature award at the Dallas International Film Festival, where it also received the top prize in the Best Narrative Feature award.
Ferrera made her London debut on November 7, 2011, playing Roxie Hart in London's West End. Ferrera was featured in the four-hour documentary Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into a Chance for Women Worldwide, which premiered on PBS on October 1 and 2. The series introduces women and girls who are living in very challenging situations and are trying to escape them. Show of Force and Fugitive Films co-produces the Half the Sky PBS TV series. Ferrera appeared in the dark comedy It's a Disaster, which premiered at the 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival and had a limited commercial release on April 12, 2013.
Ferrera was cast in a limited-run telenovela named Pedro & Maria, a modern-day twist on Romeo and Juliet set in Washington, D.C., on May 17, 2013. Ferrera served as a producer on the project, which would feature interactive online content from viewers. ABC later decided not to continue with the series. Ferrera was added to the cast of the forthcoming NBC sitcom Superstore on March 16, 2015, portraying Amy, a 10-year veteran floor supervisor at a Superstore named Cloud 9. Ferrera also does co-production duties in addition to her main role. Ferrera will be leaving the series at the end of the fifth season after NBC announced a sixth season of the series on February 28, 2020, citing new projects and spending time with family. She was pushed into season 6 due to her character's arc being properly ended due to the COVID-19 pandemic closing down Superstore's fifth season with just one episode remaining to film. Ferrera will be back for the show's one-hour series finale on March 10, 2021, according to NBC.
Ferrera would be credited as the executive producer and director of Netflix's comedy-drama film Gentefied in February 2019. On February 21, 2020, the series premiered.
Ferrera's debut with I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, based on Erika L. Sánchez's young adult book of the same name, was revealed in February 2021. The film, which was adapted by Linda Yvette Chávez, will be a co-production with Netflix, Anonymous Content, Aevitas Creative Management, and MACRO.