Sofia Vergara Profile
Her Real name Sofía
Margarita Vergara Vergara.She was born on
July 10 1972 she is resident at Colombia.
Her mother, Margarita Vergara Dávila de Vergara, is a homemaker, and her
father, Julio Enrique Vergara Robayo, produced cattle for the meat industry She
was the nickname given to Vergara by her
five brothers and sisters and many cousins. She grew up in her hometown of
Barranquilla and was raised as a devout Catholic in a well-off family,
attending a private bilingual Spanish/English school.
Sofia Vergara Television Awards
Sofia had been widely
known for co-hosting two television shows for Univisión in the late 1990s. Her
television career opened up for her a window of exposure to North American
audiences prior to her first notable acting job in English, the 2003 film Chasing
Papi. Subsequently, she appeared in films, including two Tyler Perry films,
Meet the Browns (2008) and Madea Goes to Jail (2009), receiving an ALMA Award
nomination for the latter. Vergara's success on television has earned her roles
in recent films, The Smurfs (2011), New Year's Eve (2011), Happy Feet Two
(2011) and The Three Stooges (2012).
As of 2012[update] Vergara stars on the ABC series Modern
Family as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, for which she was nominated for two Golden
Globe Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards
for Best Comedy Actress.
After a marriage at
18 and divorce two years later, she studied pre-dentistry at a university in
Colombia for three years.Then, many opportunities arose for her to work in
modeling and in show business, and Vergara decided to pursue them, leaving
dental school two semesters shy of graduation. Soon she decided to move to
Miami, Florida, to take advantage of opportunities and to move away from unrest
in Colombia (her older brother had been
murdered in 1998 during an attempt to kidnap him. Sofia brought her son, mother
and sister with her. Her sister, Sandra, is also a television actress in the
United States.
Vergara Career
Vergara at the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards, January
2012Vergara was discovered by a photographer while walking on a Colombian beach.Soon
she was presented with offers in modeling and television work,and she
considered accepting them despite being raised both conservatively and
religiously. According to an article in the January 2002 issue of Maxim,
Vergara was "apprehensive about doing her first television
commercial—until her Catholic schoolteachers gave her their personal permission
to take the assignment. Vergara made her first appearance as a performer at the
age of seventeen in a Pepsi commercial that was widely broadcast in Latin
America.
At the age of 20, Vergara moved to Bogotá, Colombia, where
she worked as a runway model and on television. From 1995 to 1998, she was
co-host with Fernando Fiore of Fuera de serie ("Out of the Ordinary"
or "Over-the-Top"), a travel series that sent her to exotic places
around the world. It was telecast on the international Univisión
Spanish-language television network, and it made her a star in the Latin
American market. It also gave Vergara television exposure in the United States
via the Univisión stations there. She co-hosted the Univisión show A que no te
atreves ("I Dare You"). She appeared as a guest star in the
season-four opening of the HBO series Entourage.
Besides runway and catalog modeling work, Vergara did
independent projects. She was photographed for posters and swimsuit calendars
in 1998, 2000, and 2002.
Vergara Hight
Vergara is 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) tall and has naturally blond
hair (for movies and television, she is sometimes asked to dye it brown to make
her look more typically Latina). Vergara was under an exclusive television
contract with Univisión for several years, and after it expired she accepted a
role with the ABC network in the United States. Vergara appeared on the ABC
situation comedies Hot Properties and The Knights of Prosperity. She currently
stars on the ABC sitcom Modern Family as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, for which
she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting
Actress in a Comedy Series for 2010 and 2011 along with a Golden Globe Award,
and three Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations.
Vergara plays Alicia Oviedo in the television show Amas de
Casa Desesperadas, the Colombian version of Desperate Housewives. Her character
is essentially the Colombian counterpart to the Mary Alice Young character in
the American show. She also appeared on the ABC drama Dirty Sexy Money as
Jeremy Darling's love interest.She has
made guest appearances in the Mexican telenovela Fuego En La Sangre.
In 2009, she had a five-week stint on Broadway as
"Mama" Morton in the revival of Chicago.
In 2011, Vergara was supposed to star in The Paperboy, an
independent drama directed by Lee Daniels. When shooting was delayed for a week
(which conflicted with Vergara shooting Season 3 of Modern Family), she was
forced to drop out.
In July 2011, Vergara finished filming for the Farrelly brothers'
The Three Stooges, her first lead role in a film. Vergara said, "I play a
mean woman that tries to manipulate the Three Stooges into killing her husband
so that she gets all the money.
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