America Ferrera Profile

Name: America Ferrera
Birth name: America Georgine Ferrera
Date of birth: April 18, 1984
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation(s): Actress

America Georgine Ferrera (born April 18, 1984) is an American actress. Since 2006, she has played the titular role in the television series Ugly Betty. In July 2002, Ferrera made her first TV movie, Gotta Kick It Up! for The Disney Channel. That same year, 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.

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America Ferrera was born on April 18, 1984. She is an Emmy Award Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award- winning American actress.
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.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 executive produced the poignant short film Muertas.

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