America Ferrera- play's Betty Suarez.
She is 24 years old. America is the youngest sibling of six, she was born in Los Angeles, Calafornia; at the moment she is working towards earning a degree as well as acting.
She first started acting at the age of 8 in school plays and community theater. Since she was 7 years old, she landed herself a role in school production of Hamlet, she knew she wanted to be a performer. Her mother did not help much in her acting career in her youth age; she wanted her to persue other interests. Her long time boyfriend; since college is a film director; Ryan Piers Williams.
She entered the movie industry in July 2002 with a TV movie caled 'Gotta Kick It Up' for Disney Channel. The same year she ade her film debut in the indi sleeper hit 'Real Women Have Curves'. She kept up her appearances in the media industry by doing both televison 'touched by an Angel' and film 'The Sisterhood of the travelling Pants' and 'Lords of Dogtown'.
In 2006, she landed the lead role of 'Ugly Betty' Ferrera herself coined the term 'Bettification' to describe the process of creating her onscreen persona.
For her wonderful role in 'Ugly Betty' in 2007 Ferrera won Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in Television Series- Comedy/ Musical. On 28 Jan 07, America Ferrera won the Prestigous Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Female Actor in a comedy series.
In 2007, Time magazine chose Ferrera as one of the top artists and entertainers in 'Time 100: the most influential people in the world' issue. She won Imagen Foundations Creative Achivement Award; Sept 07. She also won the Pimetime Emmy Award for outstanding lead actress- comedy series for Betty Suaraz in Ugly Betty. She wrapped filming on- the sisterhood of the travelling pants 2.
Her film career:
- 2002- Real Women Have Curves,
- 2002- Gotta Kick It Up ,
- 2004- $ 5.15/ hr
- 2004- Darkness Plus Twelve
- 2004- Plainsong
- 2005- How the Gracia Girls Spent Their Summer
- 2005- The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants
- 2005- Lords of Dogtown
- 2006- Steel City
- 2006- Planet H2o. 'Waterworld'.
- 2007- Muertas
- 2007- Hacia La Oscuridad
- 2007- Towards Darkness
- 2007- La Misma Luna
- 2008- The sisterhood of The Travelling Pants 2
- 2008-Tinkerbell
- 2010- How To Train Your Dragon.
Television:
- 2002- Touched by an Angel
- 2004- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
- 2006 till present- Ugly Betty
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