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America Ferrera (America Georgine Ferrera) is an American actress, voice actor, producer, director, singer, singer and model.
Ferrera made her film debut in 2002 with the comedy-drama Real Women Have Curves, garnering praise for her performance. He has received numerous honors including an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award and even a Screen Actors Guild Award, among others.
He achieved great success early in his career with roles in films such as the original Disney Gotta Kick It Up! (2002) and also the drama The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005). For the latter, she won the Image Award for Best Actress and her first ALMA Award nomination.
America Georgine Ferrera was born on April 18, 1984 in Los Angeles, California. He is 34 in 2018.
America was born the youngest in a family of six children in América Griselda Ayes and Carlos Gregorio Ferrera. His parents were originally from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and emigrated to the United States in the mid-1970s. Ferrera’s mother worked as the director of housekeeping staff for one of the Hilton hotels and also stressed the importance of higher education.
Her parents divorced when she was 7 and her father returned to Honduras. She drifted away from her father when he died there in 2010.
Raised in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles, Ferrera attended Calabash Street Elementary School, George Ellery Hale Middle School and then El Camino Real High School.
While at El Camino High School, Georgine took acting lessons at the age of 15 and was able to pay for them by serving tables and also babysitting. She then entered the University of Southern California (USC) on a presidential scholarship where she doubled the degree in theater and international relations. Ferrera dropped out to focus on her acting career, but later earned her bachelor’s degree in May 2013.
Ferrera married actor, director and writer Ryan Piers Williams on June 27, 2011. The couple first met when Piers cast her in a student film at USC. They then got engaged in June 2010.
America and Williams announced they were expecting their first child on December 31, 2017.
On 29 May 2018 Ferrera gave birth to a boy, Sebastian Piers Williams. He announced the news through his Instagram page.
In July 2002, America appeared in her first television movie, Gotta Kick It Up! for The Disney Channel in July 2002. While on a theater program at Northwestern University that same year, Georgnine made her film debut in Real Women Have Curves. He also followed this up with roles on television (Touched by an Angel).
Georgine also appeared in the film Plainsong, which is based on the Kent Haruf novel, which later starred Aidan Quinn and Rachel Griffiths. She played a pregnant teenager, Victoria Roubideaux, who was later kicked out of her mother’s home and was also welcomed by two kind brothers who live alone on a farm. In a 2005 film How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer, Ferrera played Bianca, a 17-year-old third-generation Mexican-American who is quite disgusted with the boys in her neighborhood but then finds love with a boy from a nearby town. .
Ferrera appeared in the short film 3:52 in 2006, which went on to win the Audience Award at the San Diego Women Film Festival. Ferrera appeared in the film Steel City that same year, which later received nominations at the Film Independent Spirit Awards and the Sundance Film Festival. She then appeared in the Off-Broadway comedy Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, directed by Trip Cullman in December 2005.
Georgine landed the lead role of Betty Suarez in ABC’s new comedy drama Ugly Betty in 2006. It is an adaptation of the hit Colombian telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea, in which she plays a girl her peers find extremely unattractive. , hence the title series. As Betty Suarez, she wears braces, has thick eyebrows and a tousled wig, and cosmetics and clothing that are meant to downplay her appearance, in contrast to most of the ‘endearing’ characters.
Georgine herself invented the term ‘Bettification’ to describe the process of creating her on-screen character. She won numerous accolades by winning the ‘triple crown’ for her performance in the series in 2007. She then won the Golden Globe for Best Actress – Musical or Comedy Television Series, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Comedy Series, and also the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, becoming the first Latin woman to win the Best Lead Actress award.
Georgine was added to the cast of the upcoming NBC sitcom Superstore, which plays Amy, a 10-year room supervisor in a superstore called Cloud 9 on March 16, 2015. In addition to her lead role, she also has co-production duties. The series has since been renewed for a fourth season.
Georgine took part in the #MeToo campaign, publicly disclosing she was sexually harassed when she was 9 in October 2017. Ferrera did not disclose any details about the harassment or the person who harassed her. She was also a founding member of the Time’s Up legal defense fund in January 2018.
It has been politically active. During the 2008 presidential primary, Georgine, along with Chelsea Clinton and Amber Tamblyn, led the Hillblazers organization in support of Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
She was the opening speaker of the Women’s March on Washington on January 21, 2017.
She also spoke at the protest of families who belong together on June 30, 2018.
Year |
Title |
Role |
2019 |
How to train your dragon: the hidden world |
Astrid Hofferson |
2016 |
Special correspondents |
Brigida |
2014 |
Cesar Chavez |
Helen Chavez |
X / Y |
Silvia |
|
How to train your dragon 2 |
Astrid Hofferson |
|
Dawn of the Dragon Racers |
Astrid Hofferson |
|
2012 |
It is a disaster |
Hedy Galili |
End of the clock |
Officer Orozco |
|
Half of the sky |
Herself |
|
2011 |
Book of Dragons |
Astrid Hofferson |
Gift of Night Fury |
Astrid Hofferson |
|
2010 |
The mainland |
Sarah |
Our family wedding |
Lucia Ramirez |
|
How to train your dragon |
Astrid Hofferson |
|
Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon |
Astrid Hofferson |
|
2008 |
The Sisterhood of Travel Pants 2 |
Carmen Lowell |
Tinker Bell |
Fawn |
|
2007 |
Died |
Rebecca |
Towards the dark |
Luiza |
|
Under the same moon |
Martha |
|
2006 |
Steel City |
Amy Barnes |
2005 |
How the Garcia girls spent the summer |
Blanca Garcia placeholder image |
The sisterhood of travel pants |
Carmen Lowell |
|
Lords of Dogtown |
Thunder monkey |
|
3:52 |
Kate |
|
2004 |
Darkness minus twelve |
Luiza |
2002 |
Real women have curves |
Ana Garcia |
Year |
Title |
Role |
2017 |
Hold back your enthusiasm |
Vanessa Nadal (Lin’s wife) |
2015-present |
Superstore |
Amy Dubanowski / Sosa |
2014 |
Years of life dangerously |
Herself |
2012-2018 |
DreamWorks Dragons |
Astrid Hofferson |
2011-2013 |
The good wife |
Natalie Flores |
2011 |
Handy Manny |
Graciela Morales |
2006–10 |
Ugly Betty |
Betty Suarez |
2004 |
Plainsong |
Victoria Roubideaux |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation |
April Perez |
|
2002-2008, 2010-11
|
Independent goal |
Herself / Host |
2002 |
Touched by an angel |
Charlee |
Gotta Kick It Up! |
Yolanda ‘Yoli’ Vargas |
America weighs 56 kg (124 lbs).
Ferrera is located at a height of 1.55 m.
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