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| Born | America Georgine Ferrera1 April 18, 1984 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2001–present |
America Georgine Ferrera1 (born April 18, 1984) is an American actress. She plays the lead role in the television series Ugly Betty. She also starred in the movie Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and its sequel Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.
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Ferrera, the youngest of six children, was born in Los Angeles, California, as America Georgine Ferrera, to parents who immigrated to the United States from Honduras in the mid-1970s. Her mother worked as a housecleaning staff director for a Hilton hotel.2 Her mother divorced her father and raised six children on a diet of Mexican rice, refried beans, and tortillas, always stressing the importance of higher education.3
Ferrera was raised in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles, where she attended George Ellery Hale Middle School and El Camino Real High School.4 From the time she was seven years old, when she landed a small role in a school production of Hamlet and then at age 10 a much bigger role as the Artful Dodger in Oliver!, Ferrera knew that she wanted to be a performer. She acted in school plays and community theater in Los Angeles throughout her youth, though with little help from her mother, who insisted that she pursue other interests because she was concerned her daughter would not get a fair shake. Ferrera was forced to take the bus to auditions, though eventually her mother saw her daughter’s dedication and began to drive her.3 Ferrera disliked her first name as a child and went by her middle name, "Georgine", until she began acting professionally.5
In July 2002, Ferrera made her first TV movie, Gotta Kick It Up! for The Disney Channel. That same year then her uncle died, 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.
She landed the lead role of Betty 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, in contrast to most of the "glammed up" characters; Ferrera herself coined the term “Bettification” to describe the process of creating her onscreen persona.6
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.7 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 was the executive producer for the poignant short film Muertas. Her co-star, Eric Mabius, has regularly said of her, "She's only 24 and will take over the planet in a few years time!"cite this quote
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.8 In July 2007, America Ferrera also won Imagen Foundation’s Creative Achievement Award.9
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 Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, the sequel to the 2005 film The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants as Carmen. She also is the voice of one of the nature fairies in Tinkerbell (2008). As of May 2009, she is filming a movie in Albuquerque, New Mexico and west Texas called American Tragic or The Dry Land. She has also been rumored to be dating Matthew Salmon who she met while filming Ugly Betty in Brooklyn, NY.
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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| 2002 | Real Women Have Curves | Ana Garcia | |
| 2004 | Darkness Minus Twelve | Luiza | |
| 2005 | How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer | Blanca | |
| The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants | Carmen Lowell | ||
| Lords of Dogtown | Thunder Monkey | ||
| 3:52 | Kate | ||
| 2006 | Steel City | Amy Barnes | |
| 2007 | Muertas | Rebecca | Also executive producer |
| Towards Darkness (Hacia la oscuridad) | Luiza | Also executive producer | |
| La Misma Luna | Marta | ||
| 2008 | The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 | Carmen Lowell | |
| Tinker Bell | Fawn | Voice Direct-to-video |
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| 2010 | The Dry Land | Sarah | post-production Also executive producer |
| How to Train Your Dragon | Astrid | Voice post-production |
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| Our Family Wedding | Lucia Ramirez | post-production |
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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| 2002 | Touched by an Angel | Charlee | Episode: "The Word" |
| 2004 | $5.15/Hr. | TV film | |
| Plainsong | Victoria Roubideaux | TV film | |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | April Perez | Episode: "Harvest" | |
| 2006-201010 | Ugly Betty | Betty Suarez |
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America became the first ever TV Actress to have won all 3 major Lead Actress Awards in a single year,including the Emmy Awards, the Golden Globe Awards, and the Screen Actors Guild Awards. On December 9th, 2009, Ferrera became one of recipients of NYWIFT Muse Awards 09[1], along with 3 other women, Julianna Margulies, Allison Silverman, and Andrea Wong[2].
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