America Ferrera

Actor

Birthday:April 18, 1984
Birthplace:Los Angeles, California
Never content with playing a pregnant teen or the daughter of a gang-banger, actress America Ferrera has been fortunate enough to obtain meatier roles that have won her plenty of good notices in her brief career. Her obvious talent was apparent in her first feature, “Real Women Have Curves” (2001), a role she got with little onscreen experience and only after a long audition process. But director Patricia Cardoso saw in Ferrera intelligence and Read More...

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America Ferrera Covers Seventeen
America Ferrera is Seventeen magazine’s October 2008 cover girl. Here are some of the highlights of the interview. On being friends with Sisterhood More... Published September 13, 2008 marcvaz

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
(2008) as Carmen Lowell Lifelong friends embark on separate paths for their first year of college and the summer beyond, but remain in touch by sharing their experiences with each other as they always have--with honesty and More...
Towards Darkness
(2008) as Luiza Monterro "Towards Darkness" - In "Towards Darkness," the son of a Colombian banker, photographer José (Roberto Urbina) lives abroad in New York. While visiting his family back home for the Christmas holidays, More...
How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer
(2008) as Blanca Garcia As sweltering summer stretches over a sun-bleached Arizona border town, Doña Genoveva (Lucy Gallardo), the Garcia family matriarch, decides to buy a car. The only catch is that she doesn't know how to More...
Ugly Betty
(2006 - Present) as Betty Suarez One of the few bona fide hits of the 2006-2007 TV season, the hour-long serialized dramedy Ugly Betty was based on the internationally popular Colombian telenovela Yo Soy Betty, la Fea ("I Am Betty, More...