America Ferrera
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
92
Gender
Female
Birthday
1984-04-18 (41 years old)
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
America Ferrera
Biography
America Georgina Ferrera (/fəˈrɛərə/; born April 18, 1984) is an American actress, director and television producer. She has received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to a nomination for an Academy Award. In 2007 and 2024, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world and in 2023, she was named in BBC's 100 Women list. Ferrera developed an interest in acting at a young age, performing in several stage productions at her school. She made her feature film debut in 2002 with the comedy-drama Real Women Have Curves, earning praise for her performance. She achieved modest success early in her career with roles in films such as the comedy-dramas Gotta Kick It Up! (2002) and The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (2005). She garnered further critical acclaim and recognition for her starring role as Betty Suarez in the ABC comedy-drama series Ugly Betty (2006–2010). For her performance, she won a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, the first for a Latina woman in the category. Ferrera's other film roles include the drama The Dry Land (2010), the romantic comedy Our Family Wedding (2010), the crime drama End of Watch (2012), and the fantasy comedy Barbie (2023), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also voiced Astrid Hofferson in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise (2010–2019) and co-produced and starred in the NBC workplace comedy series Superstore (2015–2021). Description above from the Wikipedia article America Ferrera, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Conan
The Good Wife
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Real Time with Bill Maher
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Barbie
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Superstore
The View
The View
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
How to Train Your Dragon
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
What If...?
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Touched by an Angel
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Dragons: Race to the Edge
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Ugly Betty
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Lip Sync Battle
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
DreamWorks Dragons
The Lost Bus
How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming
The Oscars
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
Tinker Bell
Independent Lens
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Entertainment Tonight
Entertainment Tonight
WeCrashed
Who Do You Think You Are?
How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer
End of Watch
Cesar Chavez
Dumb Money
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
History 101
The Cat in the Hat
Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury
Special Correspondents
Under the Same Moon
100 Years
Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon
Family Feud
Plainsong
Dragons: Dawn of the Dragon Racers
Lords of Dogtown
X/Y
Book of Dragons
Gentefied
The Emmy Awards
It's a Disaster
The Words That Built America
Muertas
Six by Sondheim
The Early Show
Real Women Have Curves
Our Family Wedding
Phoning it In
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Angel City
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Sid the Science Kid: The Movie
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
The Dry Land
Towards Darkness
Gotta Kick It Up!
Every Vote Counts: A Celebration of Democracy
America Divided
Katy Perry: Will You Be My Witness?
Shine On with Reese
How to Train Your Dragon: Legends
La Lupe: Queen of Latin Soul
Steel City
The Latino List
Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story
Darkness Minus Twelve
3:52
Get the Fire!
