Sofia Margarita Vergara

Sofia Margarita Vergara (Spanish: born on July 10, 1972) is a Colombian American actress and television producer, as well as a presenter, and model. Vergara was the highest paid actress in American television between 2013 to 2020.Vergara gained notoriety when hosting two television shows for Spanish-speaking television network Univision in the latter part of the 1990s. Her first major acting role in English was in the film Chasing Papi (2003). Following that, she appeared in Four Brothers (2005), Tyler Perry's comedies Meet the Browns (2008) and Madea Goes to Jail (2009, which received an ALMA Award nomination). In 2009, she started as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett on the ABC comedy series Modern Family for which she was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards, and eleven Screen Actors Guild Awards.Vergara has also appeared in the movies The Smurfs (2011), New Year's Eve (2011), The Three Stooges (2012), Machete Kills (2013), Fading Gigolo (2013) Chef (2014) and Hot Pursuit (2015). Additionally, she had voice-over roles in animated films Happy Feet Two (2011), Escape from Planet Earth (2013) and The Emoji Movie (2017). Vergara was also the highest-paid Hollywood actress in 2020 [citation required]. Since 2020, Vergara has been a judge on America's Got Talent. Vergara was born into a Roman Catholic family in Barranquilla. Vergara's mom Margarita Vergara was a homemaker while her father Julio Enrique Vergara Robayo was a cattle rancher. In the eyes of her five siblings as well as many of her cousins, she was named "Toti". Vergara initially studied dentistry for three years at the National University of Colombia, but she was two semesters from finishing her degree to pursue opportunities in modeling and show business.



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