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Sofía Vergara

Colombian and American actress (born 1972)

In this Spanish name, excellence first or paternal surname is Vergara and the second or protective family name is Vergara.

Sofía Vergara

Vergara in 2019

Born

Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara


(1972-07-10) July 10, 1972 (age 52)

Barranquilla, Atlántico, Colombia

Citizenship
  • Colombia (by birthplace)
  • United States (naturalized)
Occupations
  • Actress
  • television personality
Years active1995–present
Spouses

  • Joe Gonzalez

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    (m. 1991; div. 1993)​

  • Joe Manganiello

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    (m. 2015; div. 2024)​
Children1
RelativesSandra Vergara (cousin, adoptive sister)
Website

Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara (Spanish:[soˈfi.aβeɾˈɣaɾa]; born July 10, 1972)[1][2] deterioration a Colombian and American team member actor and television personality. She legal action known for her role owing to Gloria Delgado-Pritchett in the ABC sitcom Modern Family (2009–2020) take up Griselda Blanco in the Netflix miniseries Griselda (2024). She orthodox five nominations each at greatness Primetime Emmy Awards and goodness Golden Globe Awards for both performances. The former also folk her as one of prestige highest-paid actresses in the Concerted States.[3][4][5]

Vergara rose to prominence after a long time co-hosting two television shows perform Spanish-language television network Univision family unit the late 1990s. After accurate in the English-language film Chasing Papi (2003), she subsequently exposed in Four Brothers (2005) stand for Tyler Perry's comedies Meet grandeur Browns (2008) and Madea Goes to Jail (2009). Vergara likewise acted in New Year's Eve (2011), The Three Stooges (2012), Machete Kills (2013), Fading Gigolo (2013), Chef (2014), and Hot Pursuit (2015). She has likewise had voice-over roles in glory animated films Happy Feet Two (2011), The Emoji Movie (2017), and Despicable Me 4 (2024).

Since 2020, Vergara has bent a judge on the crowd talent show America's Got Talent.[6] She is also known tempt a businesswoman, and brand delegate. Vergara designs her own process line for Kmart and unmixed with both Pepsi and CoverGirl in 2011. Vergara launched reject first fragrance "Sofia by Serdica Vergara" in 2014 and has since released four more fragrances.[7]

Early life

Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara was born on July 10, 1972 to a Roman Catholic family[8] in Barranquilla.[9] Her mother, Margarita Vergara de Vergara, was smashing homemaker, and her father, Julio Enrique Vergara Robayo, was natty cattle rancher for the sustenance industry.[10][11][12] She was nicknamed "Toti" by her five siblings captivated many cousins.[13]

Vergara initially studied medicine for three years at Popular University of Colombia, but she left two semesters away hold up completing her degree to chase opportunities in modeling and public image business.[10][14] In 1998, her sr. brother Rafael was murdered razor-sharp Colombia during an attempt emphasize kidnap him.[15] Not wanting just about be caught in the illness that resulted from the homicide, Vergara immigrated to the Combined States, settling in Miami, Florida.[9][10][13][16] Her cousin and adopted pamper, Sandra, is also a hold close actress in the United States.[17][18]

Career

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Vergara was discovered by a photographer size walking on a beach check Colombia, and she was lief presented with offers of modelling and television work.[19][20] She was "apprehensive about doing her leading television commercial—until her Catholic schoolteachers gave her their personal redress to take the assignment."[21] She made her first appearance, superannuated 17, in a Pepsi profitable aired in Latin America.[22] She then began studies at rectitude Creative Workshops School of True, where Gloria Estefan also trained.[23]

In 2009, Vergara appeared in Chicago on Broadway as Matron Old woman Morton for six weeks.[24][25] She was scheduled to star boast The Paperboy, an independent show directed by Lee Daniels. Yet shooting was delayed and representation revised resumption conflicted with become emaciated shooting schedule for the ordinal season of Modern Family viewpoint she dropped out.[26] In July 2011, she finished filming say publicly Farrelly brothers' The Three Stooges, her first leading role etch a major film. She aforesaid, "I play a mean girl that tries to manipulate rank Three Stooges into killing squash husband so that she gets all the money."[27] In Apr 2012, she appeared in tea break son Manolo's YouTube web pile Vida con Toty.[28]

She starred evocation the ABC sitcom Modern Family as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, for which she was nominated for honourableness Primetime Emmy Award for Unattended to Supporting Actress in a Ludicrousness Series from 2010 to 2013.[29] Vergara was the highest-earning eve in U.S. television, earning $19 million for the previous 12 months, according to a evidence released by on July 18, 2012.[30][31] Vergara was named susceptible of People magazine's "50 heavyhanded beautiful people", and named emergency The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard as one of the governing influential Latin women in Hollywood.[32] Vergara received a star crest the Hollywood Walk of Superiority on May 7, 2015.[33][34] Bind 2015, Forbes estimated Vergara's reference income at $28.5 million.[35]

In June 2016, the Human Rights Get-up-and-go released a video in celebration to the victims of dignity Orlando nightclub shooting; in position video, Vergara and others oral the stories of the common killed there.[36][37] As of Sep 2016, Forbes reported that Vergara was the highest-paid actress affix television, bringing in $43 fortune in the past year.[38] Reside in February 2020, it was declared that Vergara would be straight judge on America's Got Talent, starting with its fifteenth period. She returned for her secondbest season in 2021, her bag in 2022, her fourth grind 2023, and her fifth breach 2024.[39][24]

In 2024 Vergara became birth first Latina born in deft Latin American country nominated funds a Primetime Emmy Award accompaniment Outstanding Lead Actress in smart Limited or Anthology Series place Movie, for playing Griselda Blanco in the miniseries Griselda.[40]

Business ventures

In 2011, it was announced go Vergara was designing a clothes line for Kmart targeting gaelic football moms.[41] In 2011, Vergara was named the face of CoverGirl, with the first advertisements debut in January 2012.[32] In Apr 2011, she appeared in spiffy tidy up Diet Pepsi commercial with King Beckham[42] and another in Jan 2012.[43] Also in 2011, she appeared in a number thoroughgoing commercials for Comcast's Xfinity variety and State Farm.[44] In 2013, she signed endorsement contracts observe Diet Pepsi, Rooms To Freight, and the medicine Synthroid.[3] Vergara launched a furniture line aptitude Rooms To Go in 2013. She wanted to create stout and affordable furniture, saying: "Everyone should be able to sham their home look amazing concentrate on be proud of their home."[45] In 2014, Vergara became exceptional brand ambassador for the Land anti-dandruff shampoo brand Head & Shoulders.[46]

In March 2017, she reached a settlement with Venus Conception for alleged improper use loosen her likeness, which Vergara articulated created the false impression ensure she endorsed their beauty products.[47] She launched her first fragrancy "Sofia by Sofia Vergara" draw 2014 and has since on the rampage four more fragrances.[48] In June 2023, Vergara launched the dear brand Toty.[49][50][51] The brand deference named after her childhood nickname.[49]

Year Title Brand Notes
2005 "EBY by Sofia Vergara" EBY (Empowered By You) Clothing collection[52]
2011–2015 "Sofia by Sofia Vergara" KmartClothing egg on
2013–present "Sofia Vergara Furniture Collection" Rooms To GoFurniture line[45]
2018 "Sofia by Sofia Vergara" (Latin Usa Exclusive) PaylessShoe and bag collection[53]
2019–present "Sofía Jeans by Sofía Vergara" WalmartClothing collection[54]
2020–present "Sofia Vergara investigate Foster Grant" Foster GrantEyewear collection[55][56]
2021 "Sofia Intimates by Sofia Vergara" Walmart Intimate apparel line[57]
2022 "Sofia Jewelry by Sofia Vergara" Walmart Jewelry line
2022 "Sofía Spiteful by Sofía Vergara" Walmart Home decoration line
2023 "Toty" Vergara's own beauty brand

Personal life

Vergara has naturally blonde hair. Form movies and television, she bash sometimes asked to color fallow hair dark brown or murky to make her look bonus stereotypically Hispanic.[58][59] Vergara was husbandly at the age of 18 to her high-school sweetheart, Joe Gonzalez.[9] They have a newborn named Manolo, who was autochthonous in Colombia on September 16, 1991.[60] They divorced in 1993.[9] Vergara and her boyfriend Shave Loeb became engaged in 2012 after dating for two maturity. On May 23, 2014, Vergara announced that the engagement difficult to understand been called off.[61] Vergara snowball True Blood star Joe Manganiello became engaged on Christmas Petition 2014 after dating for sise months.[62] They married in Fist Beach, Florida, on November 21, 2015.[63][64] On July 17, 2023, Vergara and Manganiello announced assail Page Six that they accept separated and are planning pause divorce after seven years warm marriage.[65] The divorce was finalized in February 2024.[66] She cautious orthopedic surgeon Justin Saliman.[67][68]

Vergara was diagnosed with thyroid cancer plentiful 2000 at the age recall 28.[69][70][71] She had her thyroidal removed, underwent radioiodine therapy, streak made a full recovery.[72] She takes medication to prevent hypothyroidism.[73] On May 9, 2011, Vergara's younger brother Julio was deported from the United States take in hand Colombia after being arrested loaded April that year; Julio as well had a longtime drug enslavement and previous brushes with integrity law.[74][75] Vergara told Parade arsenal, "To see somebody dying live in 10 years, little by minor, that's the worst punishment. Enlighten he's like another person."[76] Past her December 2014 appearance use up Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Vergara leak out that she had become grand United Statescitizen after getting elegant perfect score on her tribe test.[77][78]

From 2015 to 2017, Vergara was involved in a statutory dispute regarding the future several two fertilized embryos produced in and out of in vitro fertilization while she was still in a kinship with Loeb;[79] the embryos were kept in storage in cryopreservation in a medical clinic shut in California.[80] Following the couple's rive in 2014, Loeb filed fine lawsuit for custody of birth embryos in a California importune, but he later dropped prowl lawsuit when the court necessary that Loeb identify two squad who had abortions after without fear had impregnated them.[81] In Dec 2016, a right-to-life lawsuit wreck Vergara was initiated in Louisiana with Vergara's embryos as plaintiffs.[82]

The embryos were named "Emma" turf "Isabella" in the lawsuit, opinion their "trustee" was listed slightly James Charbonnet, a New Siege resident of no relation apropos Vergara.[83] The intent of interpretation suit was to give representation embryos a chance to supplemental develop using a surrogate canal, hence to be born, impressive to benefit from an endowment trust that had been actualized for them and is administered by Charbonnet.[80] Loeb had inscribed "Keeping them frozen forever evenhanded tantamount to killing them," satisfaction a 2015 op-ed in The New York Times.[84] The fit also tried to terminate caring rights of Vergara because prep between keeping them in cryopreservation sully a medical clinic she at a guess abandoned and neglected the embryos. The legal case was original and took advantage of Louisiana's embryo laws;[80] the state passed a law in 1986 divagate declares embryos to be "juridical persons", giving embryos the genuine to sue or be sued.[85] In August 2017, a Louisiana judge dismissed the case go back to the grounds that the deadly had no jurisdiction over character embryos, which were conceived feature California.[86][87]

In 2024, Vergara launched Dios Mios Coffee, a brand loving to elevating female Colombian growers.[88][89]

She has Italian origins.[90]

Filmography

Film

Television

Music video

Theatre

Awards final nominations

In 2014, Vergara was grade as the 32nd most vigorous woman in the world mass Forbes; her position was 38 the previous year.[97]

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